Copado, which sells AI-powered DevOps, testing and release software for Salesforce, has acquired Valo.ai, a startup based in Espoo, Finland, and San Francisco whose software watches who and what has access to live Salesforce environments. Copado announced the deal on November 4, 2026, in a release datelined New Orleans.
The companies did not disclose terms. Copado said Valo.ai will remain available as a standalone product and that existing customers will keep receiving service and support. Over time it plans to feed Valo.ai's view of live systems into its own development, testing and release tools, on a phased roadmap whose timing it did not give.
Copado did not say how many Valo.ai staff are moving across. Jari Salomaa, Valo.ai's chief executive and co-founder, spoke of joining Copado in the announcement, and Valo.ai's website now describes it as a Copado company.
What Valo.ai built
Valo.ai sells a monitoring and governance tool for Salesforce administrators and operations teams. It finds connected apps, integrations that have gone quiet, accounts nobody uses and users holding more permissions than they need, and it ranks those findings so teams know what to fix first.
According to Copado's page for the product, Valo gives a risk score to every user, profile and permission set, lets admins compare permissions side by side, flags former employees who can still log in and maps every connected app and integration with its own risk score. It also shows which AI agents, including Salesforce's Agentforce, can reach an organization's data. Admins connect their orgs through a low-access account, and the tool reports problems without changing anything itself.
The software also points out license savings, such as inactive users or people who could move to a cheaper license. In the release Copado gave the example of an administrator spotting an integration that no longer has a business purpose but still has access to Salesforce, reviewing its permissions and deciding whether to cut it off.
“Governance shouldn't stop when software goes live.”
Why Copado is buying
Copado describes itself as a provider of AI-powered AgentOps for business applications. Its platform combines DevOps automation, continuous testing, governance and AI agents to help companies plan, build, test, release and run software on complex Salesforce setups. Its products include Agentia, a set of AI agents for planning, development, testing and releases.
Until now Copado's tools have mostly governed changes on their way into production. Ted Elliott, its chief executive, said customers still struggle to see what is connected, who has access and where risks are building once those changes are live, and that this matters more as AI agents take on everyday work. He called the deal the start of linking governed delivery with governed operations.
Copado said it wants to turn the risks Valo.ai finds into recommended changes, check them through testing and ship them through controlled release processes, with human approval and an audit trail at each step. It also plans to extend the product into governance of AI agents and into other enterprise business systems over time.
The founders and the funding
Valo.ai's legal entity is Valo Security Oy, a Finnish company registered in the Aalto University area of Espoo, with a founding date of June 1, 2023, according to registry data shown by Funnelfeedr. The SaaS News described the startup as San Francisco-based. Its team page puts Salomaa in San Francisco and its chief technology officer, chief of staff and lead architect in Espoo.
The SaaS News named Salomaa, Mika Ståhlberg and Hannu Varjoranta as the founders. Ståhlberg is co-founder and chief technology officer; Varjoranta is not listed on the current team page. Copado said the founders had long experience building Salesforce security and platform technology, including Salesforce Shield.
In July 2024 Valo.ai raised a round of undisclosed size led by the Helsinki venture firm Inventure, with Stockholm's Spintop Ventures and the cybersecurity angel investors Mikko Hyppönen and Henri Lindberg taking part, The SaaS News reported. No other rounds were reported. The company did not give a headcount, and third-party estimates conflict; its team page lists a handful of people.
What happens to customers
For now, little changes for Valo.ai users. The product stays on sale on its own, and customers keep their support. Valo.ai's website lists customers including Georg Fischer, also known as Uponor, Resonate, LeedsSource and Growberry.
Salomaa said joining Copado would let the team bring governance and visibility to every stage of the AI and software lifecycle, as companies add more AI agents and applications to their business systems and need to know what has access to their data. Copado has not said when the first integrated features will ship.
