Dublin-based Bronto, a proprietary log data platform company, today announced it has raised €12 million in Seed funding to re-invent logging from end to end, build a world-leading GTM function, and expand globally.
The round was led by Cercano Management – alongside Heavybit and Conviction Capital.
“The shift to AI represents the biggest transformation in computing infrastructure requirements ever, but even pre-AI, logging solutions have not kept pace”, commented Bronto Co-founder and Co-CEO, Noel Ruane.
Infrastructure, observability, developer-tools, and AI-native data platforms have seen a steady uptick of funding in this past year.
For instance, Rerun (€15.6 million Seed) is tackling data and telemetry challenges, while Cloudsmith (€21.9 million Series B) and Qovery (11.3 Series A) focus on developer productivity and infrastructure reliability.
This cluster of activity highlights growing investor interest in AI-driven infrastructure optimisation across Europe. Notably, none of these firms are based in Ireland – positioning Bronto as one of the few Irish startups in 2025 to attract significant funding within the observability and infrastructure domain.
“Organisations continue to be forced into painful tradeoffs: pay astronomical bills for ‘just-adequate’ retention, or delete critical data needed for debugging, security, and compliance. And now, in an agentic world – where intelligence meets data – maintaining all of your log data has never been more critical for companies to leverage and reap the real benefits of AI.
“Our goal is to be the world’s number 1 logging platform for all users and use cases,” continued Bronto Co-founder and Co-CEO, Noel Ruane.
Founded in 2024, Bronto is an AI-native log data platform company reinventing logging infrastructure for the modern era. Founded by serial entrepreneurs Noel Ruane (Co-founder Voysis, acquired by Apple in 2020) and Trevor Parsons (Co-founder LogEntries, acquired by Rapid7 in 2015), Bronto enables mid-market and enterprise customers to eliminate costly tradeoffs between data volume and retention while unlocking new AI-powered use cases.
The company’s proprietary platform addresses critical infrastructure bottlenecks as organisations deploy AI at scale, allowing them to maintain and leverage all log data without discriminating between hot and historic information.
Bronto’s AI native logging platform removes the toil experienced by users of existing platforms and opens up valuable new use cases combining AI and logging domain specific expertise.
It means companies do not have to discriminate between hot and historic log data and get real value from all of their logs rather than tradeoffs between data volume and cost.
“Logging is fundamentally broken, unfit for the volume of data the AI-era has brought, and Bronto fixes that,” said Trevor Parsons, Co-founder and Co-CEO. “Our team has a combined 150+ years of experience building and operating proprietary log-engines and platforms at global scale in both private, venture-backed and public companies. I don’t believe you could handpick a better group of engineers than our team at Bronto. Both Noel and I couldn’t be more excited to lead this incredible team.”
Bronto is using the proceeds of this raise to build a world-leading GTM function as it continues to expand its already world-leading engineering function.
Industry expert and investor Joseph Ruscio concluded:”I’ve seen countless attempts to modernise log management, and they all fall short in some way – whether efficiency, scale, or usability. What Bronto has created is revolutionary and represents a true disruption in this space. Everyone at Heavybit is incredibly excited to partner with such an experienced pair of entrepreneurs already executing at this level.”
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/10/irish-startup-bronto-secures-e12-million-to-reinvent-log-data-management-for-the-ai-era/
