Port, an Israeli startup rapidly gaining traction in the developer-tools market, has closed a major funding round that positions it as a formidable challenger to Spotify’s influential open-source platform, Backstage. The company announced a $100 million Series C investment led by General Atlantic, with participation from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Team8. The raise values Port at $800 million and brings total funding to $158 million, marking one of the year’s largest rounds in the dev-tooling and AI-agent sector.
Backstage, originally built by Spotify, has become a widely adopted framework for internal developer portals—centralized hubs that give engineering teams visibility into their tools, services, performance metrics, and workflows. Although powerful, Backstage requires significant internal engineering effort to customize and maintain, a challenge that has created market demand for managed alternatives.
Port has stepped into this gap with a fully featured, proprietary platform that not only mirrors the capabilities of Backstage but expands them to include orchestration, governance, and increasingly, AI agent management. Its customer list already includes major enterprises such as GitHub, British Telecom, and LG, signaling broad appeal across industries with complex software infrastructures.
A New Frontier: Orchestrating AI Agents Across the Enterprise
While AI has reshaped numerous industries, software development has become one of its most rapidly evolving frontiers. Enterprises are experimenting with autonomous AI agents capable of handling tasks far beyond code generation—resolving incidents, addressing security alerts, managing releases, and automating repetitive operational work.
However, the agent landscape inside companies is messy and fragmented. Tools are scattered, standards vary, and collaboration is inconsistent. Port’s co-founder and CEO, Zohar Einy, characterizes the current environment as a “Wild West,” where agents exist without governance, oversight, or shared knowledge across teams.
Port aims to solve this fragmentation by offering a platform that centralizes visibility and control. Beyond cataloging existing agents and dev tools, Port adds layers of orchestration, approval flows, performance monitoring, and optional human oversight. A core feature, known as the Context Lake, defines an agent’s data access, guardrails, and memory—effectively creating a controlled environment where agents can operate safely and reliably.
Developers can also create new agents within Port, or deploy pre-built agents designed for tasks like handling help-desk tickets or managing provisioning. The platform, Einy says, supports the large portion of engineering work that happens outside pure coding, giving teams a unified interface for interacting with and supervising AI-driven processes.
A Crowded, Competitive Field
Port’s momentum arrives at a time when the market for agentic orchestration platforms is expanding at breakneck speed. Major players such as LangChain, UiPath, and Cortex, alongside an array of emerging startups, are racing to define the standards and frameworks for managing autonomous systems within enterprises. Despite the competition, Port’s deep feature set and significant backing from top-tier VCs position it as a standout contender.
As AI agents continue moving from experimental tools to mission-critical infrastructure, the race to build the platforms that control them is only accelerating and Port appears determined to be at the center of it.