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Stakpak, the DevOps AI agent startup founded by Egyptian engineer George Fahmy, is joining Vercel, the American cloud platform behind Next.js and the v0 coding agent, as the $9.3 billion company assembles what it calls agentic infrastructure.
Fahmy announced the move on LinkedIn on Tuesday, framing Vercel as "no longer just the frontend cloud" but the platform "where agents deploy, where you build and run your own agents, and where infrastructure itself is managed by agents." Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Stakpak began as an AI-powered IDE for infrastructure-as-code, generating and managing Terraform and OpenTofu configurations from natural language, before evolving into a production-grade autonomous DevOps agent, with one of the first open-source agent harnesses and what Fahmy describes as first-of-a-kind agentic security systems.
The company reported cutting infrastructure tasks that took developers four hours down to 50 minutes, and built its engineering team in Egypt while running business operations from the US, with Fahmy relocating to San Francisco.
The team bootstrapped for two years before raising a $500,000 pre-seed, announced in early 2025, led by P1 Ventures with participation from Digital Currency Group, 500 Global, and Luciq (formerly Instabug) co-founders Moataz Soliman and Omar Gabr.
For Vercel, the deal is the latest in a run of acquisitions supporting its pivot from frontend hosting to what CEO Guillermo Rauch brands the AI Cloud.
The company acquired NuxtLabs in July 2025 and authentication startup Better Auth just last week, and closed a $300 million Series F at a $9.3 billion valuation in September, co-led by Accel and GIC.
Its ARR reached a $340 million run rate by February, up from $100 million at the start of 2024, with Rauch reporting that 30% of applications deployed on the platform now come from AI agents and publicly signalling readiness for a listing. Stakpak's self-driving-infrastructure thesis presumably slots neatly into that stack, agents that not only deploy on the platform but manage the infrastructure underneath.
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