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Zerops, a Platform-as-a-Service startup redesigning cloud architecture, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Gi21 Capital.
Zerops removes the separation between development and production environments, a long-standing flaw in cloud architecture that causes deployment failures for developers and AI coding agents alike. It creates a unified environment where applications behave identically from development through to production, enabling reliable deployments from the start.
On Zerops, there are no environment tiers; applications run within a single project where code behaves the same way, regardless of scale. This means developers build, test, and deploy in genuinely identical conditions, eliminating an entire category of deployment failures. Because the infrastructure is consistent from the start, deploying a production-ready system requires a single click, not weeks of configuration.
Zerops is built on its own bare-metal infrastructure, with data centres across Europe and the United States, enabling cost efficiencies that make it up to four times cheaper than legacy platforms.
It runs applications in full Linux containers, not restricted app containers, giving developers the same level of access as on their own machines, including real-time visibility and control over running processes.
The platform also includes more than 15 built-in services such as databases, search engines, and messaging systems, reducing the need for external integrations compared to the typical two or three offered by most platforms. As applications grow, they remain within a single environment, removing the need to re-architect infrastructure at scale.
Aleš Rechtorík, co-founder and CEO of Zerops, said:
“Most platforms ask you to trust that development and production are close enough. We removed the gap entirely by rethinking how cloud architecture should work from the ground up. That’s the same guarantee we now give AI coding agents, and it’s why the code they produce is production-ready from the first deployment.
What works once continues to work as applications scale. Our goal is to make running software predictable, not something teams have to constantly debug.”
The company is also introducing Zerops Control Panel (ZCP), a feature designed for AI-driven development. ZCP connects AI coding agents, like Claude, Codex, or Gemini, directly to real cloud infrastructure inside a Zerops project, allowing them to build, deploy, and debug applications in real conditions rather than isolated environments.
Because AI operates in the same environment used for production, the code it produces works from the start. Developers can collaborate with AI within the same workspace, reviewing and modifying outputs using their own preferred tools.
According to Damir Špoljarič, founder of Gi21 Capital, the market is reaching an inflection point.:
“Rising cloud costs are forcing a shift, while AI is changing not just how software is written, but who is building and running it.
We’re moving from millions of developers to millions of developers working alongside AI agents. Most platforms weren’t designed for either of these changes.
Zerops was. Its economics come from owning the full stack, and its architecture works because it never abstracts away the underlying infrastructure.”
The new funding will be used to expand Zerops’ global infrastructure in the US and Asia, accelerate product development, and grow its team.