We've raised €2M to kill localhost

Boxd has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding led by BlueYard Capital, with support from Antler, OVNI, s20, Script Capital, and developer-infrastructure angels, to build a cloud platform for remote software development environments. The company argues that local development setups are poorly suited to AI coding agents and increasingly parallel workflows, creating limits around scalability, security, collaboration, and the ability to run multiple branches or tasks simultaneously. Boxd provides self-service remote environments designed to start in milliseconds, support sub-second forks of running virtual machines, offer hardware-level isolation and SSH access, and run either in Boxd’s cloud or on customer-controlled KVM infrastructure. Built from the hypervisor upward rather than on third-party sandboxes, the platform aims to make development environments fast, reproducible, shareable, and disposable. The funding will support improvements to startup and fork speeds, expansion of its self-serve offering, and development of a self-hosted product as the company positions its infrastructure for agent-driven software verification and execution workloads.

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