# OpenAI and Datadog leaders back AI deployment startup Arrakis

tech.eu on our $38 million raise, and the founders and backers behind Arrakis.

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tech.eu covered our emergence from stealth, after raising $38 million in just over three months: a $30 million Series A led by Blossom Capital, with Accel, which backed our seed in March. Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, OpenAI’s head of business products Olivier Godement and Cambridge Aerospace founder Junaid Hussain also invested.

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The piece introduces the team: CEO Rafael Quintanilla, formerly at Accel; Haroun Beltaifa and Romain Fouilland, both formerly at Palantir; and Mikhail Galkov, formerly at Delivery Hero. It explains how Arrakis helps industrial companies design, build and scale AI agents, from aerospace and energy to logistics, manufacturing, construction and telecoms, with forward-deployed engineers and a model-agnostic platform that gets agents running on a company’s own data in weeks.

The new funding goes into offices in New York and the Middle East, the platform, and more deployments.