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Selector

selector.ai

Selector provides AI-powered network observability that unifies operational data and automates detection, diagnosis, and resolution.

HQSanta Clara, California, United States
Employees51-200
Funding$66M+
3 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 4d ago
Specialization
Distributed Computing
Business
Software Applications
Market
Cross Industryand 1 more market values
  • Telecommunications
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Enterprises
More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Distributed Computing
Market
Cross Industry, Telecommunications
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Subscription
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
$50M-$200M

About

Selector builds an AI-powered network observability and AIOps platform for Fortune 500 and global enterprise operations teams. It differentiates itself by unifying observability across the stack and applying multi-layer AI to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in real time, with contextual understanding of relationships, behaviors, and intent.

Market

Selector competes in the enterprise AIOps, AI-native observability, network observability, and event-intelligence markets for complex hybrid and multi-domain infrastructure. It positions itself as a single intelligence layer spanning networks, infrastructure, and applications rather than a collection of siloed monitoring tools. Its differentiation is the combination of cross-domain AI correlation, a continuously updated operational digital twin and knowledge graph, a domain-specific Network Language Model, agentless deployment, and bi-directional remediation workflows.

Target Customers

Selector targets large enterprises and service providers operating complex, hybrid infrastructure—especially telecommunications companies, cloud service providers, financial-services organizations, and other Fortune 500 environments. Its primary users and buyers are operations, network engineering, SRE, and IT operations leaders seeking unified visibility, faster root-cause analysis, lower alert noise, and reduced MTTR.

At a Glance

Problem

Selector addresses the operational complexity of large, hybrid and distributed networks, where teams face noisy alerts, fragmented telemetry, difficult troubleshooting and costly downtime. The economic pain is reflected in extended mean time to resolution, manual incident investigation, inefficient operations and the business impact of outages. Its clearest use case is automating incident triage and root-cause analysis during alert storms or complex infrastructure failures, helping operators identify what matters and restore service faster.

Product / Service

Selector is an AI-native network observability and correlation platform that unifies operational data across complex infrastructure. Its multi-layer AI is designed to understand relationships, behaviors and intent rather than merely detect anomalies; it learns, reasons and explains events in context. The platform supports alert-quality improvement, telemetry unification, automated triage, migration planning and operational modeling, with the benefit of reducing noise and troubleshooting effort while improving visibility and resilience.

Market

Selector competes in AI-powered network and infrastructure observability, particularly for enterprises operating complex hybrid, distributed and telecommunications environments. The evidence reviewed does not identify named competitors, so a specific competitive set cannot be confirmed; its positioning is differentiated around AI-native observability, correlation and operational understanding rather than simple monitoring.

The company is not pre-revenue based on the available evidence: Selector says Fortune 500 teams use its AI, and its published customer examples include financial-information, data-center, financial-services and telecommunications organizations. It announced a $33 million Series B in November 2024, bringing total funding to more than $66 million, while customer deployments cite reduced alert storms, less troubleshooting effort, faster root-cause analysis and improved operational visibility.

Founders & Leadership

Kannan KothandaramanFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Nitin KumarFounder
Co-Founder & CTO
Surya NimmagaddaChief Data Scientist
Debashis MohantyVP Product Management
John McEnteeVice President Strategy
Kevin KamelVice President of Product Management

Funding History

2022-03
Series AUndisclosed

Two Bear Capital

2024-11
Series B$33M

Ansa Capital

2026-02
Series B (Tracxn classification; announced by the company as a new funding round)$32M

Advance Venture Partners (AVP)

Recent News

2026-09-22product_launch
Selector launches Selector Foundry for network-operations AI agents

On September 22, Selector introduced Selector Foundry, an in-platform development and runtime environment for network-operations teams to build, test, version, and govern AI agents using their own operational data. It shipped with six generally available agents for incident investigation, IT service-management workflows, reporting, and cloud-estate operations.

2026-08-06other
Selector named a Gartner Representative Provider

Selector reported that Gartner named it a Representative Provider in the 2026 Innovation Insight report on agentic NetOps software. The recognition concerns Selector’s AI-powered network-operations and observability capabilities.

2026-03-11funding
Why we invested in Selector

AVP described its investment in Selector following the company’s $32 million funding round, highlighting Selector’s AI-powered observability, network correlation, root-cause analysis, and enterprise traction.

2025-11-11partnership
Selector Adds Channel Partner Program and Portal to Boost Access to AI Solutions and Empower Scalable Go-to-Market Expansion

Selector launched a channel partner program and portal enabling partners to sell its solutions and access deal registration, lead sharing, joint marketing, and sales enablement resources.

2025-11-08product_launch
Selector Now Available on AWS Marketplace, Expanding Access to AI-Powered Observability and Network Intelligence

Selector’s AIOps platform became available through AWS Marketplace, offering observability, monitoring, and root-cause-analysis capabilities for hybrid and cloud environments.

Active Roles

3
California – Remote / United States (remote role listed as California – Remote)/Sales Engineer/112d ago
Santa Clara, CA, USA/Solutions Engineer/136d ago

Business Model

Selector sells its enterprise observability platform through annual contracts or subscriptions. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows $150,000 for 12 months of basic platform access, with additional capabilities priced as contract add-ons.

Products

Selector AI observability platformAI-powered Correlation & Root Cause AnalysisOperational Digital TwinSelector Copilot for natural-language operations queriesSelector MCPIntegrations and workflow automation

Tech Stack

AI-powered correlation and patented layered machine learningSelf-supervised, unsupervised, causation, trend, and recommender modelsNetwork Language Model and local/GenAI language modelsContinuously learning knowledge graph and operational digital twinAgentless data collection and normalizationTelemetry ingestion across SNMP, gRPC, NetFlow, BGP, Syslog, APIs, Kafka, and filesWorkflow automation through APIs and integrations such as ServiceNow, Slack, and PagerDuty

Competitors

Dynatrace
BigPanda
PagerDuty AIOps
OpenText AI Operations Management

Key Investors

Two Bear Capital, Ansa Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Sinewave Ventures, AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, Singtel Innov8