Vercel acquires Stakpak, its second African acquisition in a month

Vercel, the American cloud platform, has acquired an Egyptian-founded startup, Stakpak, known for its open-source autonomous DevOps agents. This is its second acquisition of an African startup this month. 

Last week, it confirmed the acquisition of BetterAuth, founded by Ethiopian Bereket Engida. It is also the second acquisition of a P1 Ventures portfolio company. The acquisition is part of the startup’s strategy to build an agentic infrastructure layer for AI-powered software. Vercel, known for its Next.js framework, did not disclose the acquisition terms. 

Founded in 2022 by CEO George Fahmy, Stakpak is an AI-powered DevOps platform that automates cloud infrastructure management. It is designed to act as an automated DevOps engineer for software teams. The company raised $500,000 pre-seed in 2025, led by P1 Ventures. 

Fahmy built the startup targeting the US market, believing it was key to its success. Its AI-powered DevOps agent can complete a task that would take a developer 4 hours in 50 minutes.

Vercel has been on an acquisition spree since the purchase of NuxtLabs in July 2025. Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, believes that the next wave of applications will be built not just by people but by autonomous agents that need to be deployed, authenticated and managed.  The company is valued at $9.3 billion and boasts of a $340m run rate.

This acquisition adds to its growing stack. Better Auth brings its technology focused on agent identity .  Meanwhile, Stakpak brings two years of operating agents in production environments, along with insight into the practical challenges of agentic infrastructure. 

All of these show that AI developers’ needs are evolving, and Vercel is building a one-stop shop for them. The Stakpak team will join Vercel. However, the remaining details have not been disclosed.

Last updated: July 16, 2026