A startup that’s built AI agents to monitor and fix IT issues — including those caused by bad vibe coding — has raised $4.6 million.
New York-based Vibranium Labs has built tech called “Vibe AI” to proactively monitor, triage, and resolve IT incidents and outages. The AI agent plugs into a company’s existing incident response software and runs 24/7.
The startup was founded by Tim Hwang, Sang Lee, Charles Kim, and Tanny Kang, who collectively have worked at a number of tech companies, including Google, Amazon Web Services, and Fiscal Note.
It aims to address what Hwang described to Business Insider as “the biggest fear in the world” for software engineers: getting a call in the middle of the night to say an app or software product is down.
“We had our own personal issues where we were waking up at 2 a.m. in the middle of the night getting pinged by an alert saying that some service or some API is down and degraded,” added Sang, the startup’s CEO.
The startup’s founders say its technology could help IT professionals during major incidents, like the CrowdStrike outage in 2024 that crashed millions of computers globally. Vibranium Labs is selling its tech on a per-usage model and targeting customers in industries including finance, healthcare, defense, retail, and media.
Hwang and Lee see an opportunity for their startup’s technology to gain traction as more companies use vibe coding to build applications. Developers who are using text prompts to create software might overlook potential issues because they are not writing the code manually, they told Business Insider.
“There are a lot of VCs that put a lot of money into vibe coding or coding assistant companies,” said Hwang. “And this was like the logical next step. These applications are definitely going to break.”
Calibrate Ventures and Mirae Asset led Vibranium Labs’ funding round, which also attracted investments from a16z, Franklin Templeton, Plug and Play, Gaingels, Wildcard Capital, FalconX, and DCG.
The founders told Business Insider they closed their seed round in about “six to eight weeks” due to the high VC interest in AI and vibe coding.
They plan to use the fresh capital to accelerate product innovation and increase the size of the startup’s engineering and go-to-market teams.
Here’s an exclusive look at the pitch deck that Vibranium Labs used to raise its $4.6 million seed round.
