BigPanda announced the acquisition of Velocity, an AI-powered SRE company with deep expertise with SRE and major incident response teams.
With its Agentic IT Operations platform, BigPanda automates L1 Operations, augments SRE and major incident teams, and predicts and prevents incidents before they impact customers. The acquisition of Velocity deepens that foundation. Their talent, technology, and customer-centric mindset are a natural fit for BigPanda as customers work to transform reactive, human-led operations into proactive, reasoning-based automation that frees talent from repetitive tasks and reduces operating costs.
With Velocity’s technology and expertise, BigPanda will further accelerate its AI Detection and Response product to automate manual L1 operations, helping IT teams reduce MTTR, reduce costs, and improve overall IT resilience.
As part of the acquisition, Tal Kain, founder and CEO of Velocity, joins BigPanda as VP of AI Detection and Response. Tal brings decades of experience leading high-impact engineering teams and building AI systems that scale in complex enterprise environments.
Before founding Velocity, Tal held leadership roles in several successful startups, including companies acquired by Oracle, Verint, and PSG. His early career in Israel’s elite Unit 8200 laid the foundation for a lifelong focus on intelligent automation and operational resilience.
“Velocity was built on the conviction that engineers should focus on solving big problems, not chasing alerts,” said Tal Kain, Founder and CEO of Velocity. “Combining Velocity’s innovation with BigPanda’s reach, scale, and data foundation, we’re able to deliver agentic workflows and AI-native tools so teams can move faster, stay focused, and deliver reliability at scale.”
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