Encore
Stockholm, SE · Founded 2020 · 20 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
Encore is a backend development platform that lets developers declare cloud infrastructure directly in application code, run a local environment mirroring the cloud, and automatically provision production infrastructure in their own AWS or GCP accounts. It supports TypeScript and Go and includes tooling for tracing, service catalogs, preview environments, and AI-agent integration for engineering teams building backend applications.
Founders & leadership
Encore was founded in 2020 by Marcus Kohlberg and André Eriksson.
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Marcus KohlberginFounderMarcus Kohlberg led product teams at Spotify working on commerce infrastructure used by over 100 million people, and is now founder and Chief Product Officer of Encore, a backend development platform for provisioning cloud infrastructure.
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André ErikssonFounder
Investors · 7
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Encore went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 6
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Spacelift155 shared keywordsSpacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that combines Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps pipelines, and an AI assistant to let developers provision and manage cloud infrastructure while platform teams retain governance and control. It is offered as managed SaaS, self-hosted, on-prem/air-gapped, and FedRAMP-authorized SaaS, targeting platform and infrastructure engineering teams.
Northflank140 shared keywordsNorthflank is a developer platform for deploying and running application workloads across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google) and bare-metal without infrastructure management or vendor lock-in. It targets software engineers and ops teams building and shipping cloud-native applications.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Encore do?
- Encore is a backend development platform that lets developers declare cloud infrastructure directly in application code, run a local environment mirroring the cloud, and automatically provision production infrastructure in their own AWS or GCP accounts. It supports TypeScript and Go and includes tooling for tracing, service catalogs, preview environments, and AI-agent integration for engineering teams building backend applications.
- Who founded Encore?
- Encore was founded by Marcus Kohlberg, André Eriksson in 2020.
- Who are Encore's investors?
- Encore's investors include Alliance VC, ESSENCE VC, Kleiner Perkins, Alliance Venture, Crane Venture Partners, Dig Ventures Management Limited, Essence Venture Capital.
- Where is Encore headquartered?
- Encore is headquartered in Stockholm, SE.