The cloud
for the AI era.
One place for creating, deploying, running, and growing software. Today that means assembling a coding environment, AI tools, infrastructure, databases, hosting, domains, email, and monitoring. We believe it should be one experience.
- Founded
- 2026 · Zevello, Inc.
- Regions
- 19, four continents
- Products
- 8, one workspace
- Hubs
- Dubai · Lisbon · Toronto
Mission
Every team we worked with hit the same wall from one of two directions: the simple platforms ran out of room the moment the architecture needed something real, and the powerful ones demanded a full-time specialist to keep honest. Teams pay twice — once in money, once in the attention of the engineers who understand the setup. We think the answer is not another abstraction that hides the machine, but a platform that operates it for you and then tells you exactly what it did, what it cost, and what to change.
AI Development
An AI-native development environment that understands your codebase and helps you plan, build, test, debug, and improve software — combining the world's leading AI models.
Cloud Infrastructure
A simple cloud for applications, APIs, workers, databases, storage, and AI agents. Tell Darwa what you want to run and let the platform handle the complexity.
Web & Business Infrastructure
Web hosting, domains, business email, and websites. One account, one bill, and one place to see what is running and what it costs.
The whole lifecycle, not a coding tool
Our ambition is for Darwa to be the place where software is not only created, but where it lives and evolves — from the first prompt to the request served in production.
- IdeaDescribe what you want to exist.
- BuildAI writes with you, in your codebase.
- TestChecks run before anything ships.
- DeployOne step to a real environment.
- HostCompute, data, domains, email.
- MonitorSignals with a named cause.
- ImproveA specific next change, not a chart.
Cloud should expand with demand, not ahead of it
Traditional fixed tiers ask a business to predict its busiest hour and pay for that capacity every hour. Darwa starts with the application’s normal baseline, watches real demand, and adds temporary hourly capacity inside customer-set limits only when the workload needs it.
- Start at the baselineRun the 2 GB plan your application normally needs.
- Watch real demandDarwa AI monitors sustained CPU, memory, and traffic pressure.
- Scale within your limitsCapacity rises to 4 or 8 GB and the increase is billed hourly while it runs.
- Scale back automaticallyAs demand falls, capacity steps down instead of becoming a permanent monthly cost.
The ≈$122B figure is an illustrative calculation: Flexera’s 29% reported waste rate multiplied by Synergy Research Group’s $419B estimate for the 2025 cloud-infrastructure market. The reports cover slightly different category definitions, so this is a scale estimate, not a measured waste total. Other statistics are reported by respondents in the Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report. Market size: Synergy Research Group. These figures describe the wider market, not guaranteed savings for every Darwa customer.
Founder

Turning working code into a running product still demands a specialist. Darwa exists so it demands a sentence instead: describe what you want to run, see what it costs, and get back to building.
Founded Darwa after four-plus years of advising teams that lost their roadmap to infrastructure work. Sets product direction and carries the pager like everyone else.
Darwa is founder-led, with a distributed team working from Dubai, Lisbon, and Toronto.
Six principles we are willing to be held to
These are not values on a wall. They are written down so we cannot quietly drop them under pressure — and if one stops being true, we will say so here.
- Defaults are the product
Most outages trace back to a setting nobody chose deliberately. We ship the safe default and make the unsafe one explicit.
- Explain, then act
A platform that fixes something silently teaches you nothing. Ours names the cause, proposes the change, and waits for you.
- No pricing traps
No per-seat surprises or metered monitoring. Managed model usage includes a disclosed 30% service margin, and prices appear in the UI before use.
- Free should be usable
A free tier that sleeps or expires is a demo. Ours stays awake and keeps its backups, because that is the only way to evaluate honestly.
- Own the boring parts
Brokers, poolers, certificates, cron boxes, image pipelines. Nobody was ever promoted for running them well.
- Say what is not built
Roadmap items are labelled Soon and nothing above them depends on them. We would rather lose a deal than win one on a feature that does not exist.
Small team, written decisions, on-call together
- Distributed
Registered in Delaware and staffed wherever the right person already lives. No mandatory night shifts.
- Written first
Proposals are documents, not meetings. Decisions and their reasoning are searchable a year later.
- Everyone deploys
Engineers ship to production in their first week, behind the same approvals as everyone else.
- Everyone is on call
Including founders. The person who designed a system carries the pager for it.
- Support is engineering
Tickets are triaged by the team that owns the service. There is no support tier that cannot read code.
Company facts
Journalists, directories, and partners cite these fields. They match our filings and our official profiles exactly.
- Legal name
- Zevello, Inc.
- Trading name
- Darwa AI
- Founded
- 2026
- CEO & Founder
- Abdul Kumshey
- Incorporated in
- Newark, Delaware, United States
- Operating hubs
- Dubai · Lisbon · Toronto
- What we do
- An AI-native cloud platform for applications, websites, data, and AI agents.
- Press contact
- press@darwa.co
Questions people ask
- Who is the founder of Darwa?
- Darwa — the AI-native cloud platform at darwa.co, also known as Darwa AI and Darwa Cloud — was founded in 2026 by Abdul Kumshey, who serves as CEO. The platform is operated by Zevello, Inc..
- Is Darwa AI related to Darwa Group or Darwa Real Estate?
- No. Darwa AI at darwa.co is an independent cloud computing platform. It is not affiliated with Darwa Group (a Saudi hospitality company), Darwa Real Estate (a Jeddah brokerage), Dar wa Emaar, or Dar Al-Handasah (Dar Group).
- What does Darwa do?
- Darwa deploys and runs websites, APIs, background workers, databases, AI agents, cloud storage, and professional email in one workspace, across 19 regions on four continents.
- Where is Darwa based?
- Darwa is operated by Zevello, Inc., incorporated in Newark, Delaware, United States, with operating hubs in Dubai, Lisbon, and Toronto.
Build with AI. Run on Darwa.
As AI becomes more capable, Darwa will evolve from an AI-assisted development platform into an increasingly autonomous software and cloud platform — so teams can focus on what they want to build.