Canvas-Backed Shoreline.io Acquired by NVIDIA to Bolster Cloud Automation

Pioneering Generative AI for Automating Cloud Operations

We are thrilled to announce that Shoreline.io (Acquired by NVIDIA) , a pioneer in applying generative AI to automate cloud operations, has been acquired by 英伟达 , effective July 3. Shoreline CEO Anurag Gupta and the Shoreline team will be joining NVIDIA DGX Cloud to improve reliability and reduce manual labor. This is a major milestone for Shoreline and further validation of Canvas Ventures' expertise in identifying and cultivating companies at the earliest stage that can transform our businesses and lives through AI.

Shoreline has developed groundbreaking technologies to harness the power of large language models and generative AI for automating operational tasks across distributed cloud infrastructure at scale. Their innovative platform can automatically generate executable runbooks from natural language to rapidly diagnose issues, repair problems through automated workflows, and enforce granular access controls down to the individual command level.

The Promise of AI Ops

Companies migrating to the cloud find managing reliability and operations has become exponentially more complex. Even with monitoring and observability tools, operations teams have struggled to keep up with the deluge of incidents across their sprawling microservices and multi-cloud environments. Industry estimates show companies spend up to 3 times more on operations personnel than their underlying cloud costs.

Shoreline's AI-driven automation represents a revolutionary solution to bend this unsustainable cost curve. By enabling self-healing infrastructure through intelligent runbooks, Shoreline helps reduce manual toil, shorten resolution times, and expand operational leverage so more issues can be addressed with fewer humans in the loop.

A Builder with Precisely the Right Background

At Canvas, we pride ourselves on backing transformative founders attacking major unsolved problems. Shoreline was founded in 2019 by Anurag Gupta, a preeminent expert on operating massive-scale distributed systems. Over his 7.5 year tenure at Amazon Web Services, Anurag was Vice President running AWS's analytic and relational database services that grew from a fledgling business into a multi-billion dollar juggernaut frequently highlighted in Jeff Bezos' annual shareholder letters.

With over 100 patents granted or pending, Anurag knows first-hand the challenges of ensuring resilience and reliability when managing services deployed across millions of nodes globally. This drove his vision to create a fundamentally new AI-powered approach to production operations that could automate away toil and complexity. When we first met Anurag, we were blown away by his unparalleled domain expertise in ultra-large-scale systems combined with his bold ambition to revolutionize cloud operations through generative AI. We doubled down on his vision and worked hand-in-hand to help build Shoreline into the pioneering company it is today.

A Partner for the Future

The acquisition by NVIDIA, the leading force driving the AI computing revolution, is a powerful validation of Shoreline's innovative AI technologies. NVIDIA undoubtedly has big plans to leverage Shoreline's advanced capabilities across its rapidly expanding portfolio of accelerated AI products, cloud services, and data center operations.

Just the Beginning

We extend our warmest congratulations to Anurag and the entire Shoreline team as well as our co-investors in this process: George Mathew at Insight Venture Partners , Vab Goel at NTTVC , and Evgenia Plotnikova at Dawn Capital . This is just the beginning for harnessing the transformative power of generative AI to radically streamline cloud operations, drive operational efficiency and reliability at global scale across data centers, public clouds, and edge deployments. We can't wait to see what new frontiers Shoreline and NVIDIA will open up together in the generative AI ecosystem.

If you’d like to learn more about Shoreline and AI for DevOps, Anurag’s videos on LinkedIn are a great start!