Blaxel is a cloud infrastructure company purpose-built for AI agents, often described as 'AWS for AI Agents.' The platform provides a serverless, perpetual sandbox environment enabling developers to b
Blaxel is a cloud infrastructure company purpose-built for AI agents, often described as 'AWS for AI Agents.' The platform provides a serverless, perpetual sandbox environment enabling developers to build, deploy, and scale autonomous AI agents without managing underlying infrastructure. Its core differentiator is a sub-25ms sandbox resume time powered by microVM technology, co-located agent hosting, a unified AI gateway, and GitHub-native developer workflows. Founded in 2024 by six co-founders who previously built and sold ForePaaS to OVHcloud, Blaxel is backed by First Round Capital and Y Combinator.
Total raised
$7.3M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Paul Sinaï
Serial entrepreneur with a successful exit. Built and led ForePaaS as CEO & CTO from 2014 until its acquisition by OVHcloud in April 2022, then served at OVHcloud through 2023. Conceived Blaxel after identifying the infrastructure gap for agentic AI workloads. Member of the Forbes Technology Council.
LinkedInHermine (Hemi) de Menthière
Joined Blaxel in early 2026. Previously led Finance & Operations at ForePaaS, playing a key role in scaling the company through its acquisition by OVHcloud. Returning collaborator for the founding team.
LinkedInChristophe Ploujoux
Senior tech manager with ~8 years at ForePaaS as a software developer, followed by a period integrating ForePaaS products at OVHcloud. Now leads technical architecture at Blaxel.
LinkedInThomas Crochet
Front-end and data engineering specialist. Joined ForePaaS as a front-end developer (React/AngularJS/Vue) in 2018, then moved to OVHcloud as Lead Data Engineering (April 2024–January 2025) before co-founding Blaxel.
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Charles Drappier
Developer with 15+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure. Started his first major venture in 2015 (ForePaaS), which was later acquired by OVHcloud. Specializes in API development and infrastructure automation at Blaxel.
LinkedInNicolas Lecomte
Product manager background. At ForePaaS from early stages, then served as Product Manager at OVHcloud (Jan 2023–Apr 2025) where he led the Data Platform product team and managed the ForePaaS integration post-acquisition. Announced joining Blaxel in April 2025.
LinkedInMathis Joffre
Engineering founder focused on infrastructure for AI agents. Based in San Francisco; previously worked at OVHcloud in a technical role after the ForePaaS acquisition.
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