Selector announces the close of its $33M Series B funding round.
The round was led by Ansa Capital, a New York City-based venture capital firm that invests in enterprise software companies at the forefront of new markets, systems, and optimized distribution models. It was joined by existing investors Two Bear Capital, Atlantic Bridge, and Sinewave Ventures, as well as AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and Hyperlink Ventures. The new investment brings Selector’s total funding to more than $66 million.
Founded by Juniper Networks executives Kannan Kothandaraman and Nitin Kumar, Selector’s team is composed of network, machine learning and Large Language Model (LLM) experts from companies including Juniper, Uber, Meta, Cisco, Nutanix and VMWare. The company’s technology is already deployed by some of the largest telecommunications and enterprise companies and is seeing increased adoption by new large-scale customers. Selector will use the funding to accelerate the development of its AIOps, LLM and Digital Twin technologies, enabling unprecedented end-to-end network and infrastructure visibility for companies. It will additionally expand its geographic footprint with new offices and staff across the US, Canada, Europe, Singapore, India, and Japan.
Selector's AI engine directly interfaces with a network language model platform so that teams can have real-time conversations with their full-stack data in human language to determine precisely where issues originated.
“Even the slightest performance degradation or downtime is unacceptable for mission-critical infrastructure and services. Solving this problem requires auto-correlating across enormous volumes of data. That’s why we exist,” said Selector CEO Kannan Kothandaraman. “We’ve spent the last five years demonstrating how autonomous AI technology and human network expertise can work together to ensure that the world’s most demanding networks are up, operating, and generating revenue at all times. We’re now ready to scale this work significantly.”
Selector’s investors, which now include major telecommunications companies that are directly benefiting from its solution, see the expansive potential that solving this problem will create–both for users and the technology company itself.
“Selector is in a position to solve a very expensive problem for very large companies,” said Allan Jean-Baptiste, Co-founder and General Partner at Ansa Capital, and Selector board member. “The rise of cloud technology, distributed microservices, and the need for seamless 24/7 performance have significantly increased the demands on enterprise network teams. No other tools on the market can watch their entire corporate infrastructure. Selector, on the other hand, has proven that it can achieve 360-degree visibility across networks–and prescribe action instantly after an incident occurs. This creates a massive opportunity for them as networks rise in importance to enterprises around the world.”
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