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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 6mo agoJobs checked 16h ago
ObservabilityAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$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

2026-05-19product
Selector Launches AI-Powered Multi-Cloud Observability Solution, Closing the Network-to-Cloud Visibility Gap

Selector expanded its AI-driven observability platform with multi-cloud capabilities that correlate signals across hybrid network and cloud environments to accelerate root-cause analysis.

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.

2026-02-18funding
Selector Raises $32 Million to Eliminate Downtime with AI-Powered Observability

Selector announced a $32 million funding round led by AVP alongside existing investors, doubling its valuation to $375 million. The capital will support AI innovation, product development, global go-to-market expansion, and customer success.

2026-01-20
Selector Achieves Major Innovation Milestone with Eight U.S. Patents Granted in AI-Powered Network Intelligence

Selector announced that the USPTO had granted it eight foundational patents covering areas including causal reasoning, LLM training, predictive analytics, and network path intelligence.

2025-12-09product
Selector Expands Global Reach with Availability on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Selector made its AI-powered observability platform available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, giving enterprises a streamlined deployment and procurement path through Azure.

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
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.

2025-10-27partnership
Selector Partners with Net One Systems to Deliver AIOps and Observability Platform to Japanese Market

Selector partnered with Japanese ICT integrator Net One Systems to bring its AIOps and observability platform to the Japanese market and drive international adoption.

2025-10-14partnership
Selector Expands into Japanese Market with Strategic Partnership with Ranger Systems Co., Ltd.

Selector formed a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based network integrator Ranger Systems to bring its AIOps platform to Japan and support digital transformation efforts.

Active Roles

3
California – Remote / United States (remote role listed as California – Remote)/Sales Engineer/66d ago
Santa Clara, CA, USA/Solutions Engineer/90d 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