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2026-10-15

$8M of new funding is targeting developer platform and internal tooling

2 funded companies building into developer platform and internal tooling. The work in scope is what the Head of Platform Engineering owns today.

The funding

OllyGarden$4Mannounced 2026-10-09

Observability starts with good telemetry. Identify bad telemetry with Insights and fix it at the source with Rose.

OllyGarden bags $4M to improve telemetry quality →
Minicor$4Mannounced 2026-10-14

Minicor connects AI startups to legacy desktop apps that have no API. Reliably, quickly and at scale. Describe a workflow and get an API endpoint. Each call triggers a self-healing desktop automation on a Windows VM. On-prem, cloud, or Citrix. Build through your coding agent via our MCP. Complete with the observability tools to manage your customer relationship: full video replay of every au

Minicor raises $3.8M to link AI with legacy business software →

What it means

Capital arriving in a function is a reliable leading indicator. It does not mean the incumbents are wrong, and it does not mean these companies will succeed. It means that within the next few quarters the people who run this work will be asked what their function is doing about it, and the honest answer has to start with where that function actually stands.

So we built the assessment for it. Not a purchase decision, a structured set of questions to take to your own team.

Mastering Developer Platform and Internal Tooling Strategy
12 modules. 144 chapters. Downloadable templates for every module, and an implementation playbook built for you after enrolment. 19 reviews.
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$8M funded in Developer platform and internal tooling | The Art of Service