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Kloudfuse
Saratoga, US · Founded 2020 · Delaware corporation · 23 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
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Kloudfuse provides a unified observability platform that consolidates metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single AI/ML-powered data lake for anomaly detection and root cause analysis. It uses a Self-SaaS, bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) model where enterprises deploy the platform in their own VPC to retain control over data, security, and costs, and it is built on OpenTelemetry and open standards.
Founders & leadership
Kloudfuse was founded in 2020 by Krishna Yadappanavar, Pankaj Thakkar, and Ashish Hanwadikar.
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Krishna YadappanavarFounder & CEO2020–2025Krishna Yadappanavar co-founded Storvisor/SpringPath, a hyper-converged infrastructure data platform company acquired by Cisco in 2017, and previously worked on storage and virtualization technologies at companies including VMware, Veritas, Commvault, EMC, and Cisco, co-authoring VMware's clustered file system (VMFS). He is CEO and a director of Kloudfuse, which offers a unified observability platform that consolidates telemetry into an AI/ML-powered data lake using a bring-your-own-cloud model built on OpenTelemetry.
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Pankaj ThakkarFounderFounder of Kloudfuse, a unified observability platform that consolidates metrics, logs, traces, and other telemetry into an AI/ML-powered data lake deployed in customers' own cloud environments. A systems engineer with expertise in observability, distributed systems, virtualization, and operating systems, he was previously chief architect of the NSX data-center product line at VMware/Nicira.
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Ashish HanwadikarFounderFounder of Kloudfuse, a unified observability platform that consolidates metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into an AI/ML-powered data lake deployed in an enterprise's own cloud (BYOC). His background is in architecture and engineering leadership across cloud, SaaS, distributed systems, Kubernetes and containers, virtualization, and storage.
Board
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Investors · 6
Blumberg Capitallisted by Blumberg CapitalMiami · $500K – $5M
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Also in the syndicate · 4
Aspenwood VenturesExponentHigh SageNewlandslead
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$6M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2020–2023
- Undisclosed amountSeries ANov 2023
Newlands (lead), Aspenwood Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Exponent, High Sage
Source ↗
▶$6MraisedJan 2021 · 2 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
▶$6MraisedJan 2021 · 2 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- David BlumbergDirector
- Krishna YadappanavarExecutive Officer, Director
- PANKAJ THAKKARDirector
- Offering amount
- $6M
- Amount sold
- $6M
- First sale
- Dec 2020
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2020
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Kloudfuse do?
- Kloudfuse provides a unified observability platform that consolidates metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single AI/ML-powered data lake for anomaly detection and root cause analysis. It uses a Self-SaaS, bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) model where enterprises deploy the platform in their own VPC to retain control over data, security, and costs, and it is built on OpenTelemetry and open standards.
- Who founded Kloudfuse?
- Kloudfuse was founded by Krishna Yadappanavar, Pankaj Thakkar, Ashish Hanwadikar in 2020.
- Who are Kloudfuse's investors?
- Kloudfuse's investors include Aspenwood, Blumberg Capital.
- How much funding has Kloudfuse raised?
- Kloudfuse has disclosed $6M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Kloudfuse headquartered?
- Kloudfuse is headquartered in Saratoga, US.