Cloud Computing Startups

A Cloud Guru is an online learning platform focused on cloud computing skills, offering certification courses, hands-on labs, practice exams, and live cloud sandboxes for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Linux. It serves individual engineers and enterprise teams building cloud fluency, and was acquired by and integrated into Pluralsight in 2021.

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aedifion provides a cloud platform with AI-powered building analytics and autonomous control systems to optimize energy consumption and operating costs for commercial real estate portfolios, achieving up to 40% savings in energy, CO2 emissions, and operational expenses. The platform serves real estate asset managers by offering real-time building data, efficiency recommendations, and decarbonization support for compliant, sustainable building operations.

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Agilicus provides a cloud-native Zero Trust Network Access platform that gives users secure, client-less and VPN-free connectivity to resources such as web applications, remote desktops, databases, and industrial control systems (PLCs, SCADA, HMIs, building management systems). It targets organizations with critical infrastructure and operational technology, offering federated identity, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and per-resource access control for employees, contractors, and vendors.

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Agora provides APIs and a real-time engagement platform that enables developers to embed voice, video, interactive streaming, chat, and AI capabilities into their applications. The platform handles real-time data transmission across 200+ countries using its Software-Defined Real-Time Network.

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Akave provides an S3-compatible object storage cloud with usage-based pricing, zero egress fees, immutability, and cryptographic access controls, positioned as a lower-cost alternative to hyperscalers like AWS. It targets enterprises running AI pipelines, backups, and analytics that need data ownership, governance, and jurisdictional control.

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AKUA develops cybersecurity solutions and IoT/supply chain SaaS platforms, serving enterprise customers in government defense and commercial markets.

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Alchemy provides a Product Development Platform including electronic lab notebooks, laboratory information management systems, and artificial intelligence tools that help chemists and material scientists accelerate research, product development, and quality control. The platform integrates with CRM, ERP, and lab equipment systems to digitize core lab processes and improve throughput.

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Alphaus provides FinOps services and cloud cost management tools, including its Ripple product, to help companies, cloud resellers, and IT consulting firms track, allocate, and optimize public cloud spending. It focuses on the Japanese market, managing cloud billing for AWS Premier Partners and enterprise teams.

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Aper is a cloud commerce platform that enables financial institutions, telcos, and enterprises to launch branded marketplaces powered by AI and integrated merchant ecosystems. The platform provides end-to-end marketplace operations, from merchant management and payment processing to personalization and fraud detection.

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api.video is a developer platform that provides video encoding, hosting, delivery, and analytics capabilities through an API, enabling developers to integrate video functionality into websites and applications.

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Aravolta provides branch circuit monitoring for data centers, tracking power consumption at sub-second accuracy to enable colocation operators to automate tenant billing, detect power overages, and generate usage-based invoices.

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Arga Labs provides testing infrastructure for AI agents and applications that need to interact with multiple third-party services. The platform allows developers to run agent workflows and code changes in isolated, resettable sandbox environments with digital twins of external APIs, without modifying production data.

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Automatic Labs built a connected-car adapter and app that plugged into a vehicle's OBD-II port to track driving data, diagnostics, and trips. It was acquired by SiriusXM in 2017 and shut down in 2020.

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Aviatrix provides cloud network security solutions with embedded, real-time protection through its Cloud Native Security Fabric platform, serving enterprises that need control, security, and visibility across cloud infrastructure.

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Aviz Networks develops networking software for open, disaggregated network infrastructure, with a focus on AI-driven operations and data center networking. Its team spans engineering, product, and customer success functions.

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Axiom provides a fully managed, petabyte-scale, schema-less event store for observability data, letting engineering teams ingest and retain logs, traces, metrics, and events with high compression and usage-based pricing. It offers query languages (APL and MPL) modeled on the Splunk experience, a native MCP server for AI agents, and tools to migrate from or run alongside Splunk.

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Bitnami provides hardened, production-ready container images and deployment packages for open-source software components. The platform offers platform-agnostic containers, Helm charts, and virtual machines for secure deployment across Kubernetes and container runtimes.

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Blaxel provides cloud infrastructure for autonomous agents, offering persistent sandboxes that boot in milliseconds and can stay idle indefinitely without cold-start penalties. The platform combines compute, storage, and networking primitives designed for AI agents to run, scale, and operate reliably with stateful execution and multi-agent collaboration.

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Blind Insight develops a privacy-preserving data platform using searchable encryption and access controls for organizations that require both data security and insights. The platform is designed for use in the AI era.

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Block Green operates a capital platform providing secured and unsecured lending in Bitcoin and fiat currencies, along with revenue hedging and revenue-streaming products, for Bitcoin miners and HPC data center operators. It connects data center operators seeking liquidity for expansion with fiat and Bitcoin investors seeking returns.

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Cloud Storage Security (CSS) provides in-tenant, multi-engine malware scanning for Amazon S3 and DataDefender, a data security posture management (DSPM) tool offering inventory, classification, activity monitoring, threat detection, and configuration checks. It serves commercial, regulated, and public sector organizations securing data stored in the cloud, primarily on AWS.

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Bloomfilter provides end-to-end visibility and traceability over work execution by humans and AI agents, unifying data across development tools and platforms into a shared intelligence layer.

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Boomi provides a cloud-based integration and automation platform used by enterprises for connecting applications, data, and workflows as part of digital transformation efforts. The company serves large organizations across industries.

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Blackwall provides GateKeeper, a high-availability web security and traffic-filtering solution for web hosting and service providers, operating as a reverse proxy with a web application firewall to block L7 DDoS attacks, bots, brute-force attempts, and scraping. It protects cloud assets, data centers, and web clusters, and lets hosting providers resell security services to their SMB clients.

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