Cloud Computing Startups

Sapho built an employee experience platform that turned existing enterprise systems into micro apps, surfacing tasks and data through a personalized feed. Acquired by Citrix in 2018.

13 investors

Shape Security (now part of F5) provides bot defense that uses real-time behavioral analysis and platform-wide telemetry to distinguish humans, trusted AI agents, and malicious automation across web apps, mobile apps, and APIs. It protects login, checkout, account recovery, and API workflows against fraud, scraping, and inventory abuse for enterprise organizations.

13 investors

Splunk offers a unified platform for security and observability that ingests and analyzes large-scale data across hybrid cloud environments. Its tools support security operations centers with analytics and automated response, and help teams monitor application and infrastructure performance.

13 investors

Tailscale provides secure connectivity infrastructure. The company serves developers, network engineers, and security-minded builders through a community-driven platform.

13 investors

Wasabi provides low-cost cloud object storage for businesses storing data such as backups, medical images, surveillance footage, financial records, and multimedia. Its Hot Cloud Storage service operates across data centers in the US, Europe, and Asia.

13 investors

Anjuna develops software for secure data sharing and confidential computing in cloud and AI environments. The company serves enterprises seeking to protect data while leveraging cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities.

12 investors

Carro (GoVyrl, Inc.) operates a cloud-hosted application platform, running on AWS, that handles personal and company data for its users. The page focuses on the platform's security and privacy practices but gives limited detail on the product's core function.

12 investors

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database designed for enterprise applications that require high availability and global scalability. It serves data-intensive enterprises across industries seeking to eliminate downtime and simplify database operations.

12 investors

Convex is a technology company building a database and backend platform, founded by a team with backgrounds in synchronization, storage, and databases.

12 investors

HeadSpin provides audio and video testing with performance KPIs and analytics for teams delivering streaming and media experiences. Its tools include a Waterfall UI that visualizes KPIs, session recordings, and network requests to identify bottlenecks affecting audio/video quality.

12 investors

Hydrolix is a real-time data analytics platform that enables sub-second analytics at global scale for petabyte-scale log data, reducing infrastructure costs while providing instant insights from both real-time and historical data across distributed environments.

12 investors

Hyperbolic operates an AI cloud platform that provides developers and researchers with affordable access to GPU compute and open-source AI models by tapping underutilized hardware. It targets developers, startups, and research teams needing scalable infrastructure for AI/ML development.

12 investors

Livepeer is a permissionless GPU network that enables real-time video inference, allowing developers to generate, transform, and analyze live video streams through AI-powered processing without pre-rendering or pre-recording.

12 investors

Medable provides a cloud-based platform for clinical research that uses AI and digital tools to accelerate the development of therapies by improving the quality, reach, and efficiency of clinical trials. The platform serves pharmaceutical sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs), and clinical research sites.

12 investors

Mews is a cloud-based hospitality platform and property management system (PMS) for hotels, covering booking, pre-arrival, check-in, in-stay purchases, point of sale, and check-out. It offers self-service kiosks, digital keys, guest communication tools, and integrations with over 1,000 hospitality apps.

12 investors

Mindbody provides software and a consumer app platform for fitness, beauty, and wellness businesses to manage operations, attract clients, and book classes and appointments. The platform connects thousands of wellness businesses globally with consumers.

12 investors

MongoDB is a cloud database company that provides Atlas, a multi-cloud data platform for transactional, search, and generative AI workloads, along with enterprise on-premises options and integration tools for developers and partners.

12 investors

Okta provides identity and access management products designed to protect the identities of workforce and customer users. The company serves enterprises and organizations that need to manage identity authentication and authorization across digital environments.

12 investors

Phaidra develops an AI control platform that uses reinforcement learning to optimize energy efficiency and operational performance in data centers and AI factories. The platform enables autonomous, self-learning systems to manage complex interconnected infrastructure like cooling systems, power management, and workload distribution.

12 investors

PlanGrid was a cloud-based construction management software for general contractors, subcontractors, and owners providing real-time access to project plans, issues, photos, and forms. The product is now superseded by Forma Build, Autodesk's integrated platform combining PlanGrid and BIM 360 features.

12 investors

Pure Storage provides data storage infrastructure that unifies data into a single virtual cloud of storage with automated, policy-driven management. It offers consumption-based pricing and service-level agreements aimed at enterprise storage needs.

12 investors

Quo is a cloud-based business communication platform that provides a modern phone system for small businesses to connect with customers and manage relationships. The product targets small business owners who need professional communication tools to scale operations and compete effectively.

12 investors

RapidFort provides a software supply chain security platform that analyzes and hardens container images to eliminate vulnerabilities and reduce attack surface across development and production environments. The platform offers vulnerability scanning, runtime profiling, curated base images, and compliance validation to help organizations secure containerized applications.

12 investors

Superlinked builds SIE, an open-source inference engine that runs specialized AI models on shared GPUs, enabling organizations to reduce API costs and improve control over their AI infrastructure for search and document processing workloads.

12 investors