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Solo.io wins the “Most likely success” prize on VB Transform 2025 Innovation Showcase

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Cambridge, Mass Solo.io He was awarded “Most likely success” during innovation at VB Transform in San Francisco on June 25.

Established in 2017, Cloud-Native Application Networking Company-which collected USD 135 million in Series C of the C in 2021 And it is valued at $ 1 billion – it provides tools for connecting, securing and observing state-of-the-art applications, especially those built on Kubernetes and micros services.

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We present the Kagent Studio

The Kagent platform is a first -of -a -kind cloud framework that helps Devops and platform engineers to build and run AI agents in Kubernetes. During the presentation of innovation during this year’s VB transformation, the company announced the launch of Kagent Studio, a frame that allows enterprises to build, secure, launch and manage AI agents in Kubernetes.

Keith Babo, CPO of the company, presented a novel offer from the main VB Transform scene. He said that the framework was aimed at solving the challenges related to the platform engineering by offering functions, including:

  • Native vscode extension integration
  • Real -time incidents reaction possibilities
  • Double -sided communication between communication platforms in the workplace, such as slack and teams and integrated programming environment (IDE)
  • Automated generation of analysis of the main causes
  • Live infrastructure monitoring and diagnostics

“This is the first frame of this kind, which are directed to this audience, which builds and works on Kubernetes for agents,” said Babo in an interview with Venturebeat. “We wanted to make sure that we can introduce it directly to the tools that platform engineers use every day.”

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Helping the engineers of the context sharing platform

Babo said that Framework acts as a native extension in the VS code and checks the fields in many flows of platform engineering work, including reaction to incidents.

“So maybe you’ll get an alert pagerduty that appears in your idea. You can confirm it and immediately our agents running locally inside the idea will raise this incident and start diagnosing. All this lives just before the engineer. So you see the actual charts and logs and the status of the core of the springs or infrastructure you take, and you live, situation. ”

Babo added that the engineer instructs the system to go forward (or not), enabling the agent and man coexistence and a partner in the effective solving of this problem.

He said that the framework would allow the context to be injected from communication platforms to IDE, with an analysis made available to a communication platform, enabling bilateral communication for people working on this problem.

Salesforce for platform engineers

Idit Levine, the founder and general director of the company, said in an interview with Venturebeat that she perceived Kagent Studio as “an indispensable engineering tool”, similar to CRM Salesforce, which is necessary for sales teams throughout the enterprise. She said that Kagent Studio combines context and communication between platforms and platform engineering.

Levine said that winning the “most likely that success” award was “a great validation for us” and indicating the interest of enterprises in their offer.

According to Babo and Levine, Studio has already gained significant adhesion. It has over 1,000 collaborators, 1100 GitHub stars and users are already launching them in production. It is currently in the closed preview phase; Users can ask for access. More information can be found on Server of disagreement.

Each finalist presented the audience of industry decision makers and received feedback from the Venture Capital panel at the presentation. They included Emily Zhao, director at Salesforce Ventures; Matt Kraning, partner in Menlo Ventures; and Rebecca Li, investment director at Amex Ventures.

Read about other CTGT and Catio winners. Finalists were attached FistIN Superduper.ioIN Hint AND Qdrant.

Editor’s attention: As thanks to our readers, we opened early registration of birds for VB Transform 2026-only USD 200. Here, AI’s ambition meets with operational reality and you will want to be in peace. Book your place now.

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