Vercel, the American cloud platform valued at $9.3bn, has acquired Stakpak, an Egyptian-founded start-up that built one of the first open-source autonomous DevOps agents, as it accelerates a push to become the infrastructure layer for AI-powered software.
The transaction, announced on Tuesday by Stakpak founder George Fahmy, is the third acquisition in a year by the company behind the Next.js framework, following the purchase of NuxtLabs in July 2025 and the authentication library Better Auth only last week. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Stakpak began as an AI-powered assistant that let developers generate infrastructure-as-code configurations from natural language, working with tools such as Terraform and OpenTofu. It later evolved into a production-grade DevOps agent that the company said could shrink infrastructure tasks from four hours to roughly 50 minutes. The start-up also released an early open-source agent harness and what Fahmy described as first-of-a-kind agentic security systems, earning a following among developers experimenting with self-driving infrastructure.
The team bootstrapped for two years out of Cairo before raising a $500,000 pre-seed round announced in early 2025. That round was led by P1 Ventures (which also invested in Ethiopia’s Better Auth, recently also acquired by Vercel), with participation from Digital Currency Group, 500 Global and Instabug co-founders Moataz Soliman and Omar Gabr. Fahmy, who relocated to San Francisco, kept the core engineering team in Egypt, a model that allowed the company to build deep infrastructure technology on a comparatively small budget.
Fahmy framed the deal as a fit with Vercel’s ambition to move beyond front-end hosting. Vercel is “no longer just the frontend cloud” but the platform “where agents deploy, where you build and run your own agents, and where infrastructure itself is managed by agents,” he wrote.
Vercel has been repositioning itself aggressively. Chief executive Guillermo Rauch brands the company’s expanded offering the “AI Cloud,” betting that the next wave of applications will be built not just by people but by autonomous agents that need to be deployed, authenticated and managed. In September the company closed a $300m Series F funding round co-led by Accel and GIC at a $9.3bn valuation. By February its annualised recurring revenue had reached a $340m run rate, up from $100m at the start of 2024, and Rauch has said publicly that 30 per cent of applications deployed on the platform now originate from AI agents. He has also signalled readiness for a stock market listing.
The Stakpak deal adds the infrastructure management piece. Self-driving infrastructure agents can provision, scale and repair cloud resources without human intervention, a capability that slots neatly into a platform where AI agents are already responsible for a growing share of deployments. Fahmy said that the company’s nearly two years of operating agents in production environments had yielded hard-won insight into the practical challenges of agentic infrastructure.
Last week Vercel acquired Better Auth, an open-source authentication library built by Ethiopian solo founder Bereket Engida. That deal brought in technology focused on “agent identity” — a protocol for giving autonomous AI agents revocable digital credentials distinct from their human users. Rauch called agent identity “foundational to agentic infrastructure.” Stakpak extends that foundation from identity to the underlying compute and network layers.
The string of deals underscores how the infrastructure needs of AI developers are reshaping the market for developer tools. By knitting together deployment, authentication and now infrastructure management, Vercel is assembling an integrated platform for a world in which software is increasingly built and operated by agents. The acquisitions also illustrate how far venture-backed start-ups from outside traditional technology hubs are shaping that new stack: Stakpak was built largely in Egypt, Better Auth was created in Ethiopia, and NuxtLabs originated in France.
Fahmy thanked early investors and the open-source community that helped Stakpak become, in his words, one of the most widely used open-source DevOps agents. The Stakpak team will join Vercel and continue to work on agentic infrastructure. The company’s open-source projects will remain available, though their long-term governance has not been detailed.
The acquisition is among the most prominent exits for an Egyptian DevOps start-up and adds to a pattern of global platform companies hunting for infrastructure talent far beyond Silicon Valley.