Vercel Buys DevOps Agent Startup Stakpak, Its Third Acquisition in Weeks

Vercel has acquired Stakpak, an Egyptian-founded startup that built an autonomous AI agent for DevOps work, marking the company's third acquisition in a matter of weeks. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Stakpak started as an AI-powered IDE for infrastructure-as-code, letting engineers generate and manage Terraform and OpenTofu configurations through natural language prompts instead of hand-writing them. The company says that approach cut typical infrastructure tasks down from about four hours to roughly 50 minutes. Over time, Stakpak evolved into something more ambitious: a production-grade autonomous DevOps agent, built with open-source agent harnesses and its own agentic security tooling to keep those agents from making unsafe changes to live systems.

The startup was founded by George Fahmy, an Egyptian engineer who bootstrapped the company for two years before closing a $500,000 pre-seed round in early 2025. That round was led by P1 Ventures, with backing from Digital Currency Group, 500 Global, and Luciq co-founders Moataz Soliman and Omar Gabr. Stakpak kept its engineering team based in Egypt while running business operations out of the US, and Fahmy himself relocated to San Francisco as the company scaled.

Vercel's acquisition spree

The Stakpak deal follows two other purchases in quick succession: Vercel bought NuxtLabs in July 2025, and picked up authentication startup Better Auth just the week before the Stakpak announcement. Together, the moves point to a deliberate strategy of assembling the infrastructure pieces needed to support AI agents that build, deploy, and manage software with minimal human intervention.

That strategy is backed by real usage data. Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch has said that 30% of applications now deployed on the platform originate from AI agents rather than human developers, a figure that underscores why DevOps automation has become a priority acquisition target rather than a side project.

Vercel is well capitalized to keep shopping. The company closed a $300 million Series F in September at a $9.3 billion valuation, co-led by Accel and GIC. Its annual recurring revenue run rate hit $340 million by February, up sharply from $100 million at the start of 2024. Beyond its core hosting business, Vercel owns Next.js, the widely used React framework, and v0, its own AI coding agent, giving Stakpak's DevOps capabilities a direct home within an existing agent product line.

For Stakpak, the acquisition caps a fast trajectory from bootstrapped side project to acquired infrastructure company in under three years, and adds another data point to the growing pattern of Egyptian-founded startups finding exits with US-based buyers.