Bronto, a proprietary log data platform, announced a $14 million seed funding round led by Cercano Management, with participation from Heavybit and Conviction Capital. The investment will support the development of a fully AI-native logging platform designed to lower costs and unlock new use cases for mid-market and enterprise customers.
Bronto’s platform eliminates the operational burden associated with traditional logging solutions while allowing companies to extract full value from all log data, without tradeoffs between hot and historic datasets or between data volume and cost. The platform leverages AI and domain-specific expertise to enable seamless, end-to-end logging.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Noel Ruane (co-founder of Voysis, acquired by Apple in 2020) and Trevor Parsons (co-founder of LogEntries, acquired by Rapid7 in 2015), Bronto addresses critical infrastructure challenges as AI adoption accelerates at scale.
“The shift to AI represents the biggest transformation in computing infrastructure requirements ever, but even pre-AI, logging solutions have not kept pace,” said Noel Ruane, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Bronto. “Organisations continue to be forced into painful tradeoffs: pay astronomical bills for ‘just-adequate’ retention, or delete critical data needed for debugging, security, and compliance. And now, in an agentic world — where intelligence meets data — maintaining all of your log data has never been more critical for companies to leverage and reap the real benefits of AI.”
“Our goal is to be the world’s number one logging platform for all users and use cases,” added Ruane. “With Cercano and Heavybit, we believe we have selected the perfect combination of breadth and depth in our first capital partners to help us achieve that goal.”
“Logging is fundamentally broken, unfit for the volume of data the AI-era has brought, and Bronto fixes that,” said Trevor Parsons, Co-Founder and Co-CEO. “Our team has a combined 150+ years of experience building and operating proprietary log engines and platforms at global scale in private, venture-backed, and public companies. Both Noel and I couldn’t be more excited to lead this incredible team.”
Proceeds from the funding will expand Bronto’s go-to-market function while continuing to grow its world-leading engineering team. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with a presence on both US coasts, Bronto prioritizes a people-first, location-agnostic hiring approach.