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Paris, FR · Founded 2024 · 13 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors

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Plakar is an open-source backup and recovery engine that deduplicates, compresses, and encrypts snapshots at the source before writing them to storage the user controls (S3-compatible, local, or filesystem). It targets security and infrastructure teams (SREs, sysadmins, platform engineers) with a self-hosted Control Plane and a Kubernetes operator for defining backup policies as code across sources like databases, VMs, Kubernetes, and containers.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[{"full_name": "Gilles Chehade"}]

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Founders & leadership

Plakar was founded in 2024 by Gilles Chehade and Julien Mangeard.

GCGilles Chehade
Gilles ChehadeFounderGilles Chehade is a systems software engineer with expertise in Unix environments and security-focused design. He contributed to OpenBSD, founded OpenSMTPD, an open-source SMTP server, and is cofounder and CTO of Plakar, an open-source backup and recovery platform.
JMJulien Mangeard
Julien MangeardCo-FounderHe spent eight years as group CTO at vente-privee (now Veepee) and previously led Rentabiliweb Telecom, later part of Digital Virgo, as CEO. He also founded the Paris and Amsterdam chapters of the while42 engineering network and is a member of Reg.exe.

Investors · 6

Irregular Expressionslisted by Irregular Expressions
Kima Ventureslisted by Kima VenturesParis · $50K – $5M

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Motier Ventureslisted by Motier VenturesParis · $330K – $3.3M

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OPRTRSlisted by OPRTRS$220K

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Seedcamplisted by SeedcampLondon · $378K – $1.1M

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Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$3M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025

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In the news

Plakar Raises $3M in Pre-Seed Fundingfinsmes.com · May 2025Plakar 5/15/2025 Capital Raise - Gaebler.com Venture Capital Databasegaebler.com

Frequently asked questions

What does Plakar do?
Plakar is an open-source backup and recovery engine that deduplicates, compresses, and encrypts snapshots at the source before writing them to storage the user controls (S3-compatible, local, or filesystem). It targets security and infrastructure teams (SREs, sysadmins, platform engineers) with a self-hosted Control Plane and a Kubernetes operator for defining backup policies as code across sources like databases, VMs, Kubernetes, and containers.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[{"full_name": "Gilles Chehade"}]
Who founded Plakar?
Plakar was founded by Gilles Chehade, Julien Mangeard in 2024.
Who are Plakar's investors?
Plakar's investors include Galion.exe, Irregular Expressions, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, OPRTRS, Seedcamp.
How much funding has Plakar raised?
Plakar has disclosed $3M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
Where is Plakar headquartered?
Plakar is headquartered in Paris, FR.