Spacelift

Spacelift was founded in 2020 by Marcin Wyszynski and Pawel Hytry as a startup operating in Poland and the United States. In 2021 Wyszynski was CEO and Hytry was COO, and the company was headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an office in Warsaw, Poland.⁠[1]

On June 15, 2021 Spacelift announced a $15 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with existing investors Blossom Capital, Inovo Venture Partners and Hoxton Ventures participating, to scale its infrastructure-as-code management platform in the US market, quadruple its engineering team and build a US commercial team. The round brought its total funding to $22.6 million, with backers also including the founders of Supercell and Yelp.⁠[1]

At the time Spacelift supported Terraform, Pulumi and CloudFormation, with Ansible support coming; its platform let teams define standardized infrastructure, build policies into workflows and code, synchronize code across projects and repositories, and automatically detect and remediate resource drift.⁠[1]

On August 10, 2023 HashiCorp announced that it would move Terraform and other core products from the Mozilla Public License to the Business Source License 1.1. On August 15 companies and individuals in the Terraform ecosystem published a manifesto under the name OpenTF, asking HashiCorp to return Terraform to an open-source license and otherwise planning to fork it under the original MPL into a foundation with neutral governance; Spacelift was among the companies pledging time, funding and resources to the initiative.⁠[2]

On July 10, 2025 Pawel Hytry, then CEO and co-founder, announced that Spacelift had raised a $51 million Series C led by Five Elms Capital with participation from Endeavor Catalyst and Inovo VC. He said the company would keep investing in governance, developer experience and open-source leadership, noting that OpenTofu was running in production at companies including OracleOracleOracle (Oracle Corporation) is a U.S. enterprise software and cloud computing company founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. Starting with relational databases, it expanded into enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, hardware, and industry systems, and broadened its product range through acquisitions of companies such as Sun Microsystems, NetSuite, and Cerner.Open the full entry, Cisco and Fidelity, had more than 10 million downloads, and counted Spacelift as its largest sponsor.⁠[3]

Hytry previously co-founded FitPass Group and served as its managing director, and holds a degree in Operations & Information Management from the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania, commonly called Penn, is a private research university and Ivy League member in Philadelphia. It traces its origins to a 1740 charity-school project; Benjamin Franklin proposed his academy in 1749, classes began in 1751, and a 1791 merger established the institution under its present name. Penn has 12 schools, with undergraduate education concentrated in arts and sciences, engineering, nursing and Wharton. Enrollment totaled 29,384 in fall 2025, and the fiscal 2025 endowment was $24.81 billion. As of October 2026, J. Larry Jameson was president, with his term scheduled to end on June 30, 2027.Open the full entry.⁠[3]

After HashiCorp changed Terraform’s license, Spacelift teamed up with other companies to launch OpenTofu, a fork of Terraform under a more permissive license that does not restrict commercial use; by July 2025 OpenTofu had more than 600 contributors. Spacelift’s customers then included RedfinRedfinRedfin is a Seattle-based real estate brokerage and home-search platform that launched in 2004 as a map-based listings site and grew into an online brokerage that employs its own agents and attracts customers with low commissions; it listed on Nasdaq in 2017. On July 1, 2025, Rocket Companies completed its acquisition of Redfin, which became a wholly owned subsidiary and was delisted.Open the full entry, Checkout, Moody’s, Duolingo and SailPoint, and the funding was to accelerate product innovation and expand enterprise adoption.⁠[4]

On October 8, 2025 Spacelift introduced Spacelift Intent, which lets users describe the infrastructure they need in natural language. Intent plugs into users’ existing AI tools through MCP and calls OpenTofu providers from the public registry directly to create resources, without generating HCL code; the resulting infrastructure keeps plan/apply, policies and audit trails and can be exported as standard Terraform or OpenTofu code.⁠[5]

On October 13, 2026 CursorCursorCursor is the trading name of U.S. AI coding software company Anysphere, Inc. and its namesake coding tool. Founded by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger, it began as an AI-native development environment forked from VS Code and later shifted toward agent-centered coding. Its November 2025 Series D valued the company at $29.3 billion post-money; on August 14, 2026, SpaceX completed an all-stock acquisition at an implied equity value of $60 billion, making Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary.Open the full entry announced that the app marketplace for its Origin platform integrated more than 20 developer-tool apps, listing Spacelift among its deployment apps.⁠[6]

As of November 2026 Spacelift describes its product as an infrastructure orchestration platform covering provisioning, configuration and governance across the infrastructure lifecycle. It integrates with tools including Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Kubernetes, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, AWS CDK and Terragrunt and provides developer self-service, a policy engine based on Open Policy Agent, and drift detection. The company says its customers span fintech, e-commerce, mobility, media and SaaS.⁠[7]

Spacelift: Official website: https://spacelift.io/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

X: Public account: https://x.com/spaceliftio (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

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