DigitalOcean acquired Katanemo Labs to help developers move AI agents from prototype to production with less infrastructure overhead. By integrating Katanemo Lab’s Plano data plane and observability capabilities, teams can rely on built-in orchestration, execution, and monitoring instead of stitching together their own stack. The result is a more straightforward way to build, deploy, and run agent-based applications at scale.

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DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean has acquired Katanemo Labs, the team behind the open-source agentic data plane Plano, as part of its strategy to become the premier Agentic Inference Cloud. The acquisition brings a framework-agnostic 'NoOps' data plane for AI agents, agentic observability capabilities, and research into Small Action Models (SAMs) like the Arch-Agent family. The goal is to close the prototype-to-production gap that 61% of developers cite as their biggest AI challenge, by providing built-in orchestration, workflow execution, and safety protocols so teams can focus on agent logic rather than infrastructure assembly. Katanemo's co-founder Salman Paracha joins as SVP of Agentic AI Engineering.

The Agentic Era Demands a New Class of Infrastructure: Why DigitalOcean is Acquiring Katanemo Labs, Inc.

From Model Accuracy to Operational Reality

Accelerating the Agentic Stack with Data Plane and Observability Innovation