Cloud Computing Startups

Airtable is a San Francisco-based no-code platform that lets teams build apps and workflows on a flexible database. Founded in 2013 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas, it raised about $1.35bn from investors including CRV, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark, Thrive Capital, and Coatue, and agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons in August 2026.

23 investors

Cloudflare provides a global cloud network platform delivering security, performance, and development services through sixty-plus integrated services including SASE, application security, and full-stack development infrastructure.

23 investors

Rescale provides cloud-based engineering and R&D platform with simulation, modeling, and digital engineering tools for enterprise engineering teams across multiple industries. The platform offers pre-configured workflows, software integrations, and enterprise security controls to accelerate innovation and discovery in engineering and scientific research.

23 investors

Twilio provides a cloud-based communications platform that enables businesses to integrate voice, messaging, and video into applications using APIs. The platform combines communication channels, contextual data, and AI orchestration for enterprises and developers building customer experiences.

23 investors

Deepgram builds foundational voice AI technology that enables speech-to-text, audio intelligence, text-to-speech, and voice agent APIs for businesses to create natural voice interactions. The company serves enterprises and developers across multiple industries seeking to integrate advanced voice capabilities into their applications and customer experiences.

22 investors

VAST Data builds a global data platform designed to enable AI agents to store, process, and execute tasks. The platform serves enterprises and AI-focused organizations requiring infrastructure for AI systems.

22 investors

Wiz provides cloud security platform that identifies and removes critical risks across multi-cloud environments. The company offers a unified security layer for organizations to manage risks and accelerate business operations on major cloud providers.

22 investors

Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that uses cryptographic proofs to distribute data across a global peer-to-peer network, offering an alternative to centralized cloud storage providers. The platform enables applications, archives, and data-heavy systems to store and retrieve data without reliance on centralized gatekeepers.

21 investors

PagerDuty provides a platform for incident response and operations management that enables teams across technical and business functions to respond to critical events in real time. The platform serves developers, reliability engineers, security teams, and executives managing operational disruptions.

21 investors

ClickHouse develops a column-oriented database management system that enables real-time analytical reporting via SQL queries. The platform serves organizations requiring fast data analysis across large-scale, continuously growing datasets.

20 investors

JumpCloud is an AI-powered unified IT management platform that provides identity, access, and device management for organizations managing both human users and non-human AI identities. The platform consolidates management of users, devices, and resources across cloud and on-premises environments to deliver intelligent security and compliance.

20 investors

SambaNova develops an integrated AI platform designed to help enterprises deploy and manage AI workloads efficiently. The company serves enterprises seeking to leverage foundation models and AI infrastructure for transforming their operations.

20 investors

Supabase is a fully managed PostgreSQL backend platform that integrates with AI builders like Claude, Lovable, and Bolt to enable rapid development of production applications. It provides authentication, real-time database sync, storage, serverless functions, and vector support for AI/ML applications.

20 investors

Aethir operates a distributed cloud compute platform providing enterprise-grade GPU resources for AI model training, fine-tuning, inference, and low-latency cloud gaming. It offers bare metal GPU cloud services and a partner network where GPU providers contribute capacity in exchange for rewards.

19 investors

Astronomer provides Astro, a platform for running Apache Airflow, the open-source data orchestration tool used by enterprises to manage AI, ML, and analytics pipelines at scale.

19 investors

Chronosphere provides an observability platform for microservices and containers that helps teams detect and fix customer-impacting issues while controlling costs and complexity. The platform includes telemetry data collection and transformation capabilities designed for cloud-native and DevOps environments.

19 investors

Cloudera is a hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, serving enterprises and data teams. The company provides infrastructure and tools for organizations to manage and analyze large-scale data.

19 investors

Confluent provides a cloud-native platform for real-time data streaming and movement, enabling organizations to connect applications and respond to business events as they occur. The platform serves as a central infrastructure layer for handling continuously flowing data across enterprise systems.

19 investors

Darktrace / Forensic Acquisition & Investigation is a cloud-native forensics product that automates disk-level evidence capture, collection, and preservation across multi-cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. It builds visual attack timelines with root-cause context to help security teams triage alerts and speed incident response.

19 investors

DFINITY builds the Internet Computer, a decentralized cloud network that enables applications to run directly on the blockchain with persistent state, native HTTP serving, and built-in security without requiring external databases or a dedicated operations team. The platform is powered by cryptography and distributed systems, and no single entity controls the network.

19 investors

Docker provides containerization and application development platform tools including sandboxes, governance, and security solutions for developers.

19 investors

Embrace is a user-focused observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that provides real user monitoring (RUM) for mobile and web applications. It helps engineering and reliability teams understand end-user experience and performance issues to improve digital products.

19 investors

Fal provides fast inference for generative AI models, particularly for image and video generation tasks like SDXL and Whisper. The platform serves developers building creative applications and consumer tools at scale.

19 investors

Fluidstack develops infrastructure for AI by rapidly deploying compute capacity, enabling delivery of gigawatts of computing power in six months compared to industry standards of 18-24 months, with focus on data center acquisition, design, operation, and supporting major AI infrastructure projects.

19 investors