Salus Cloud, a startup providing an AI-native DevOps platform tailored for the African market, has secured $3.7 million in seed funding. The investment will be used to accelerate product development and expand its reach across the continent and other emerging markets.
The funding round was co-led by Atlantica Ventures, a Lagos-based firm focused on tech-enabled startups, and pan-African investor P1 Ventures. Additional participation came from Idris Bello of Lofty Inc. Capital, Everywhere Ventures, and angel investor Timothy Chen of Essence VC.
Launched in 2024 by Andrew Mori, the founder and CEO of Deimos, Africa’s largest Google Cloud partner, Salus Cloud aims to address a critical gap in the continent’s rapidly growing tech ecosystem: the lack of accessible and secure continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. While the adoption of DevOps practices is on the rise across Africa, many startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle with the complexity and cost of implementing and maintaining these crucial software development processes.
“Startups shouldn’t be burning capital building infrastructure that’s not core to their mission,” Mori stated in a recent interview. He explained that many African companies are forced to choose between insecure and inefficient manual deployment processes or expensive, complex solutions designed for larger, more mature markets.
Salus Cloud is designed to offer a third option. The platform provides AI-powered developer agents, automated security fixes, and enterprise-grade DevOps features, all packaged for lean teams and priced for growth markets. The goal, according to Mori, is to “remove that burden and let you focus on what truly matters,” whether that’s building a fintech lending platform or an e-commerce logistics system.
The company offers a self-service cloud version starting at $9 per month per developer, and a managed enterprise edition with plans beginning at $5,000 per month. Mori notes that the enterprise pricing is significantly less than the cost of hiring a single DevOps engineer in key African markets like Nigeria, Kenya, or South Africa. Salus Cloud reports that it has already onboarded five enterprise clients and is seeing significant interest from the fintech sector.
The fresh capital will be instrumental in fueling the company’s go-to-market strategy, which includes building partnerships with developer communities and tech hubs across the continent. The Cape Town-based team is focused on driving adoption among Africa’s burgeoning software developer population.
Mori’s ambition is for Salus to become a foundational layer in Africa’s tech infrastructure, particularly as more startups look to scale securely and efficiently. “Our ambition is to support 50–500 enterprise teams and tens of thousands of African developers by 2026,” he said. “We’re not just building tools. We’re enabling a new way of thinking about software delivery in Africa — faster, leaner, and laser-focused on outcomes.”
The investment in Salus Cloud highlights a growing recognition among investors of the need for infrastructure-level solutions to support the continued growth of Africa’s tech landscape. As the continent’s startups mature and compete on a global scale, the demand for sophisticated yet accessible tools to manage software development and deployment is expected to increase significantly.
