Application configuration startup Configu raises $3M in pre-seed funding
Summary
Configuration Software Solutions Ltd., better known as Configu, said today it has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round.The round was led by Cardumen Capital and backed by a number of notable angel investors, including Ariel Maislos, co-founder of Anobit Technologies Ltd., which was later acquired by Apple Inc.The startup is focused on a very important part of the software development pipeline, providing a configuration-as-code service that helps to automate application configuration.Configu says application configuration is a very neglected aspect of the development cycle. Modern apps today are reliant on an assortment of various technologies and their components can be stored across multiple back ends. Theres also a lack of standardization that causes major headaches for developers and often leads to misconfigurations.Some organizations counter these problems with the use of infrastructure scripts or create their own, in-house configuration orchestration tools, but Configu argues that neither approach is that effective. It said its platform supports collaboration between multiple developers and offers governance for environment variables, feature flags and any configuration related to code. So Configu looks like an interesting tool for developers, with its promise of helping them eliminate the massive headaches around configuration.Configu was founded in 2021 but it already counts an impressive list of customers, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 firms.