Robusta

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Acquisition

Freshworks acquires Israeli AI startup Robusta for Freshservice

It's the latest sign that managing outages now requires AI agents fluent enough to investigate costly incidents without burning through token budgets.

• Freshworks, the Nasdaq-listed SaaS company behind Freshservice, acquired Israel-based AI startup Robusta Dev for an undisclosed sum, announced October 28, 2026.
• Robusta, founded by CEO Natan Yellin and Arik Alon, built an AI incident-intelligence engine that investigates outages, finds root causes, and recommends fixes in large-scale production environments.
• The technology will integrate into Freshservice, Freshworks' IT service management platform, and work alongside its FireHydrant incident-response tools, with engineers reviewing AI-recommended changes before they reach production.
• Robusta's agents analyze monitoring data, infrastructure telemetry, and recent code or configuration changes, a design meant to control the token cost of parsing massive volumes of raw alerts in enterprise systems.
• The deal follows Freshworks' prior acquisitions of AnsweriQ, Device42, FireHydrant, and Torii, continuing a pattern of building its AI-powered service operations stack through M&A.
• Freshworks reported Q2 2026 revenue of $237.4 million, up 16% year-over-year, with a $3.2 million GAAP net profit versus a $1.7 million loss a year earlier.
• As AI agents take on technical troubleshooting, enterprise software vendors are racing to own the full incident lifecycle — detection, diagnosis, and remediation — rather than compete on isolated tools.