Avrea emerges from stealth with $4.7M to reinvent CI/CD for the AI coding era

Avrea, a modern Continuous Integration (CI) platform built for the agentic AI era of software development, has emerged from stealth after securing $4.7 million in total pre-seed funding led by Earlybird.

As AI tools generate an increasing share of software code, development teams are entering a new phase of accelerated output. However, the systems responsible for testing, validating, and shipping that code have largely remained unchanged, creating a widening gap between how quickly software can be written and how quickly it can be delivered. This imbalance has become a growing bottleneck for engineering teams and a persistent drag on developer productivity.

Founded by Hannu Valtonen and Juha Valvanne, Avrea is addressing this challenge by rebuilding the software delivery layer for the AI era. The platform is fully compatible with existing CI/CD workflows and can be adopted with a single line of code, enabling teams to integrate it into their environments without changing established processes. Avrea is also designed to be directly accessible by AI agents, allowing automated systems to participate natively in how code is built, tested, and shipped.

According to Avrea co-founder and CEO Hannu Valtonen, while AI has dramatically accelerated the process of writing code, the testing and delivery infrastructure behind it still scales in line with the growing volume of software being produced.

If teams generate five times more code, they also need to run five times more tests, and the strain on CI/CD systems becomes impossible to ignore. Avrea removes that friction without requiring teams to change the way they work.

In addition to improving delivery speed, Avrea provides full observability into pipeline performance, helping teams identify the root causes of flaky tests, stalled builds, and infrastructure bottlenecks that are often difficult to diagnose in traditional CI/CD systems.

Juha Valvanne, co-founder and CSO of Avrea, added that software development is increasingly becoming a collaborative process between humans and AI, making it essential for AI agents to integrate directly with software delivery systems as they take on a more active role in development workflows.

Avrea is designed for this new reality, with the goal of simplifying software delivery so developers can focus more on building products and less on managing tooling complexity.

The new funding will be used to grow the engineering team, expand the platform beyond CI/CD runners, and accelerate go-to-market efforts as Avrea continues building the foundation for the next generation of software delivery.