CAST AI Group, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in multi-cloud management, particularly through its advanced Kubernetes automation platform. Founded in 2019 and based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, CAST AI enables users to optimize their cloud infrastructure by dynamically adjusting compute capacity based on demand across multiple cloud providers. The platform employs machine learning algorithms to analyze and optimize clusters in real time, leading to significant cost reductions—often over 50%—for customers utilizing major cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. In addition to cost savings, CAST AI enhances performance, security, and overall productivity for DevOps and engineering teams by ensuring efficient resource allocation and application deployment across different cloud environments.
Hydrolix is a data lake platform that aims to enhance the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of data. The company specializes in providing high-performance, scalable data storage solutions that cater to both structured and unstructured data. Its technology features high-density compression and scale-to-zero controls, allowing clients to perform sub-second interactive queries while minimizing costs related to data ingestion, querying, and storage. With a focus on real-time analytics, Hydrolix addresses the challenges of data management, ensuring consistent performance as data volumes grow. Their platform is designed to adapt to the evolving data needs of enterprises, making it a valuable asset for organizations looking to optimize their data handling capabilities.
Nirmata
Venture Round in 2025
Nirmata develops a platform that simplifies the management of containerized applications. It offers Kubernetes-as-a-Service for automated operations, application modernization for containerization, and multi-cloud cluster management to ensure portability across different cloud providers. Its solutions are widely used by Kubernetes users, particularly in regulated industries.
Northflank
Series A in 2024
Northflank is a cloud hosting and platform-as-a-service provider that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications through a self-service platform. Founded in 2013 and based in London, it supports diverse workloads and integrates with major cloud providers, allowing seamless deployment and management of applications. The company offers an automated development operations platform designed to build and deploy code across multiple regions and clouds, with services that include continuous integration, delivery and deployment, data processing, and hosting. By consolidating these capabilities on a single platform, Northflank aims to reduce costs and increase operational efficiency for organizations using cloud at scale.
Orb provides modern billing infrastructure powering revenue workflows for AI and software companies. Its platform supports real-time billing and usage-based pricing by handling the data infrastructure and billing logic needed for usage-based monetization, enabling companies to evolve their pricing towards more flexible models.
CAST AI Group, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in multi-cloud management, particularly through its advanced Kubernetes automation platform. Founded in 2019 and based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, CAST AI enables users to optimize their cloud infrastructure by dynamically adjusting compute capacity based on demand across multiple cloud providers. The platform employs machine learning algorithms to analyze and optimize clusters in real time, leading to significant cost reductions—often over 50%—for customers utilizing major cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. In addition to cost savings, CAST AI enhances performance, security, and overall productivity for DevOps and engineering teams by ensuring efficient resource allocation and application deployment across different cloud environments.
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that provides an alternative to SaaS products like DataDog. It enables companies to keep critical data within their boundaries, addressing security and privacy concerns.
Massdriver
Angel Round in 2023
Massdriver is a Pasadena, California-based company founded on June 23, 2021, by Cory O'Daniel. It offers a visual development environment that enables engineers to create production-ready cloud architectures efficiently. By simplifying the cloud infrastructure design process, Massdriver allows users to draw and connect components without needing extensive DevOps expertise. The platform integrates observability and security into every aspect of its infrastructure, providing standardized, self-service options for users. This enables customers to compose entire systems seamlessly across different regions or cloud providers, enhancing scalability and security in their cloud operations.
Elastio Software
Series A in 2023
Elastio specializes in cloud-native data protection, safeguarding applications against risks such as ransomware, failures, and deployment errors. Its platform, powered by ScaleZ™ storage and inline active ransomware intelligence, offers application-specific backups, automated scanning for threats, fast recoveries, and flexible data movement. Purpose-built for the cloud, Elastio delivers easy deployments, robust protection, and immediate value.
Omnistrate
Seed Round in 2023
Omnistrate is a cloud platform that specializes in transforming Docker images into multi-cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The company provides a control-plane-as-a-service that enables businesses and service providers to automate application management, allowing developers and IT operations teams to efficiently oversee the software lifecycle. Omnistrate's platform includes features such as infrastructure management, failure handling, upgrades, and end-to-end observability, which facilitate a streamlined environment for testing changes and defining deployment upgrade paths. By simplifying these processes, Omnistrate empowers professionals to monetize their innovations more quickly and focus on higher-value tasks.
Earthly Technologies
Seed Round in 2023
Earthly Technologies, Inc. is an open-source platform specializing in build automation for the post-container era. Founded in 2020 and based in Redwood City, California, the company has developed an array of tools that simplify continuous integration and deployment processes. Its primary product, the Earthly framework, enables developers to create repeatable builds that can run in any environment. The platform supports the creation of Docker images and various artifacts, such as binaries and packages, while also allowing for parallel processing and dependency management from multiple directories. Additionally, Earthly provides Earthly CI, a fast and efficient continuous integration platform, as well as Earthly Satellites, a remote build runner compatible with any CI system. By streamlining these development processes, Earthly Technologies aims to enhance efficiency and consistency in software development.
FlowForge
Seed Round in 2022
FlowForge is an open-source, low-code development platform for enterprise-scale integration and automation, built on Node-RED. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, FlowForge provides a platform for organizations to deliver applications via a collaborative, secure workflow environment that supports multi-tenancy, enterprise authentication integration, auditing, compliance, observability, and is designed around version control and CI systems.
Grafbase
Seed Round in 2022
Grafbase is a company founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in API management through its innovative data platform. The platform allows developers to create and deploy projects locally via the terminal, facilitating rapid development and deployment of GraphQL APIs. Grafbase emphasizes secure self-hosted deployment options, exceptional query speed, and advanced governance, ensuring reliable and enterprise-grade performance. By streamlining the transition from idea to production, Grafbase enables developers to focus on building applications without the complexities of managing infrastructure, offering instant serverless backends that enhance the overall development experience.
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Dgraph Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Dgraph Labs is a software company that develops and operates a graph database designed for low-latency, real-time queries on large volumes of structured data. The database supports open-source use and enterprise deployments, including Slash Enterprise, a fully managed, serverless solution for workloads running on dedicated multi-zone clusters across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. The platform enables efficient retrieval for real-time queries as well as semantic search, pattern matching, and fraud detection, helping organizations manage, represent, and visualize large datasets. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, Dgraph Labs serves startups and larger enterprises seeking scalable graph data management.
Okteto is a cloud application development platform for Kubernetes that enables developers to quickly spin up pre-configured environments and work directly in Kubernetes. The platform provides self-service access to Kubernetes infrastructure, a developer-focused dashboard to visualize workloads, and automatic security policies, quotas, and access control for users and deployments. It supports creating secure Kubernetes namespaces, provisioning automatic HTTPS endpoints for services, and managing secrets to prevent credentials from being stored in version control. Developers can deploy applications, build remotely, and push images to the Okteto registry, with integration to the Okteto command line interface to develop inside a Kubernetes cluster. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Okteto focuses on accelerating cloud-native software development and improving velocity, productivity, and innovation for cloud-based applications.
Bodo.ai offers an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics. It scales past thousands of cores and petabytes of data, providing unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. The platform leverages unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, enabling F500 customers to solve complex data analysis problems swiftly and cost-effectively using native Python. Bodo.ai is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh.
Lendflow develops a platform that enables businesses to embed financial products into their software, improving user engagement and retention. They offer term loans, lines of credit, and invoice factoring, serving various industries such as construction, e-commerce, and transportation.
Rendered.ai
Seed Round in 2021
Rendered.ai is a technology company that specializes in providing a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for generating synthetic datasets tailored for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2019 and based in Bellevue, Washington, the company offers a cloud-based platform that enables data scientists, engineers, and developers to create and deploy customized synthetic data efficiently. This platform addresses challenges related to the use of real-world data, such as expense, bias, security, and privacy concerns. Rendered.ai enhances the data generation process by offering a collaborative environment, high-performance computing resources, and tools for characterizing and cataloging both synthetic and existing datasets. Its flexible subscription model allows clients to generate unlimited data for a fixed monthly fee, making it easier for organizations to meet their data needs for AI and machine learning projects.
Bodo.ai offers an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics. It scales past thousands of cores and petabytes of data, providing unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. The platform leverages unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, enabling F500 customers to solve complex data analysis problems swiftly and cost-effectively using native Python. Bodo.ai is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh.
Nirmata
Seed Round in 2021
Nirmata develops a platform that simplifies the management of containerized applications. It offers Kubernetes-as-a-Service for automated operations, application modernization for containerization, and multi-cloud cluster management to ensure portability across different cloud providers. Its solutions are widely used by Kubernetes users, particularly in regulated industries.
RoboCorp Technologies, Inc., established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in cloud-based, open-source Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The company simplifies the use of open-source tools by providing a cloud-native platform, enabling developers to integrate RPA into their organizations efficiently and without the constraints of traditional offerings.
Oak9 is a company specializing in cloud native security solutions. It focuses on integrating security directly into the application design process, allowing developers to maintain fast development cycles while ensuring robust security measures are in place. Oak9's Security as Code platform dynamically secures Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deploys cloud workloads automatically. This approach enables businesses to simplify their application security by providing pre-built building blocks that support various architectures across different cloud providers, ensuring both security and compliance from the outset.
AutoCloud
Seed Round in 2021
AutoCloud offers a cloud infrastructure management platform that provides comprehensive visualization tools. It integrates with Terraform for automation and GitOps, aiming to shift security and compliance left in the software development lifecycle.
Ondat is a developer of a cloud-native storage platform that facilitates persistent storage volumes directly on any Kubernetes node, offering flexibility in data management for containerized applications. The platform enables users to deploy applications and data storage across various environments, ensuring high levels of application performance, resilience, and dependability. Ondat supports containerized databases and CI/CD workloads, providing advanced features such as erasure coding, replication, and data reduction through deduplication and compression. Additionally, it enhances data mobility with replication and migration services, ensuring secure data storage and management through encryption and policy management. This empowers clients to maintain control over their data while optimizing their cloud infrastructure.
Elastio Software
Seed Round in 2020
Elastio specializes in cloud-native data protection, safeguarding applications against risks such as ransomware, failures, and deployment errors. Its platform, powered by ScaleZ™ storage and inline active ransomware intelligence, offers application-specific backups, automated scanning for threats, fast recoveries, and flexible data movement. Purpose-built for the cloud, Elastio delivers easy deployments, robust protection, and immediate value.
Earthly Technologies
Seed Round in 2020
Earthly Technologies, Inc. is an open-source platform specializing in build automation for the post-container era. Founded in 2020 and based in Redwood City, California, the company has developed an array of tools that simplify continuous integration and deployment processes. Its primary product, the Earthly framework, enables developers to create repeatable builds that can run in any environment. The platform supports the creation of Docker images and various artifacts, such as binaries and packages, while also allowing for parallel processing and dependency management from multiple directories. Additionally, Earthly provides Earthly CI, a fast and efficient continuous integration platform, as well as Earthly Satellites, a remote build runner compatible with any CI system. By streamlining these development processes, Earthly Technologies aims to enhance efficiency and consistency in software development.
Cube Dev
Seed Round in 2020
Cube Dev provides an open-source analytical API platform that enables internal business intelligence and customer-facing analytics through a semantic layer. The semantic layer unifies business logic, centralizes governance and security, and optimizes query performance, while supporting integration with any data endpoint. Cube Cloud offers a managed infrastructure with query inspection and tracing, monitoring, and pre-aggregation management. The platform includes visualization-agnostic tools for building user interfaces and analytical APIs, and supports modern data stores to handle large data volumes with built-in security. Cube Dev serves organizations seeking scalable, governed analytics applications.
Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams. It connects companies with institutional investors in real-time, making recurring revenues tradable at their annual value. This enables scaling companies to access more cash flow.