Cloud Computing Startups

SKY ENGINE AI provides a cloud-based synthetic data platform and simulator that uses physics-based rendering and sensor simulation to generate labeled training data for computer vision and AI models. It serves industries including automotive, manufacturing, robotics, agriculture, and defense, with tools for ground truth generation, domain adaptation, and integration with deep learning frameworks.

2 investors

Skyhigh Security provides cloud and data security products, including its Security Service Edge (SSE) portfolio with SWG, CASB, ZTNA, DLP, and DSPM capabilities, for enterprises securing hybrid cloud and SaaS environments. Its offerings apply AI to data protection across web, cloud, and application access.

2 investors

Slik Safe builds an end-to-end encrypted file storage and syncing app for macOS, iOS, and web that keeps users' personal and work files private across devices. Its encryption algorithm is made open and public, and it aims to unify search across multiple cloud storage accounts such as Drive, Dropbox, and Box.

2 investors

SmartX provides a hyperconverged infrastructure and enterprise cloud platform offering component-level replacements for VMware products, including virtualization, distributed storage, networking, container management, and backup solutions for Chinese enterprises. The platform serves organizations in finance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and education sectors seeking to replace VMware dependencies with domestic alternatives.

2 investors

Smol Machines provides a runtime system for executing workloads in hardware-isolated Linux VMs with an open-source engine, supporting development workflows, code sandboxing, and portable executable packaging. It targets developers and organizations needing secure isolation and portability of applications across different environments.

2 investors

Software AG provides enterprise software for developing, modernizing, and deploying mission-critical applications, along with tools for data virtualization, data movement, and mainframe optimization. It serves large enterprises running systems on IBM Z, Linux, cloud, or hybrid environments.

2 investors

Solinftec develops the ALICE AI platform, which collects and analyzes real-time field data to manage agronomic operations and logistics for farms. It serves agricultural producers globally, operating across 11 countries with a hyperlocal approach.

2 investors

Solinide develops silicon nitride photonics technology for optical interconnect infrastructure with 60%+ efficiency, serving hyperscale datacenters, AI systems, telecommunications networks, quantum computing, and edge computing applications.

2 investors

Solu provides a cloud-based genomic surveillance platform that analyzes microbial genomes in real-time without requiring coding or configuration. The platform serves public health institutions, research labs, and medical centers performing pathogen sequencing, outbreak detection, and antimicrobial resistance monitoring.

2 investors

Soluna builds data centers co-located with wind, solar, and hydro plants to convert surplus renewable energy into computing capacity for AI and Bitcoin mining, managed by its MaestroOS software. It offers Bitcoin hosting infrastructure and Soluna Cloud, which helps businesses train and tune generative AI models.

2 investors

Solvo provides a cloud security posture management (CSPM) platform with automated remediation to help security and engineering teams identify and address threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance issues across multi-cloud environments. It integrates with existing security and CI/CD tooling; the company was acquired by CYE.

2 investors

Soracom operates a cloud-native IoT platform offering cellular and satellite connectivity, cloud integration, and AI services, with coverage across 500+ carriers in 200+ countries through a single platform and SIM. It serves startups and enterprises building connected products across industries such as agriculture, energy, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail.

2 investors

Source develops an edge-first data management stack that enables developers to build applications across distributed devices and offline environments without reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. The platform is designed for developers and organizations seeking to maintain sovereignty over their data and computing infrastructure.

2 investors

The sourcefire.com domain now redirects to Cisco's Security portfolio, a suite of integrated cybersecurity products spanning network, cloud, endpoint, and application protection built on a unified, AI-driven platform. It serves organizations of all sizes with threat detection, zero trust access, cloud/AI workload protection, and automated response, and includes technologies such as Splunk and Talos threat intelligence.

2 investors

Spheron operates a GPU cloud marketplace that aggregates compute capacity from certified data centers worldwide, offering NVIDIA GPUs (H100, H200, B200, A100) at 40-60% below hyperscaler pricing. The platform serves AI training teams and ML builders with on-demand GPU instances, reserved capacity, and custom cluster sourcing across multiple providers through a single dashboard.

2 investors

Spin.AI provides unified SaaS security and data protection across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Slack, and Atlassian through a single platform. The solution combines backup and recovery with ransomware detection, browser security, and security posture management for enterprise organizations.

2 investors

Spire Labs develops blockchain infrastructure for Ethereum, including a platform for launching application-specific chains with based sequencing, transaction aggregation services, and RPC endpoints. The company serves developers and applications building on Ethereum and its layer-two networks.

2 investors

Spring provides open-source Java frameworks and tools for building applications and microservices, including support for web apps, cloud deployment, event-driven and batch processing, and integrating generative AI. It targets developers building production-grade, cloud-portable services in the enterprise Java ecosystem.

2 investors

Springtail built a way to scale Postgres read performance without data migrations, code changes, or new systems to manage, aimed at developers managing data infrastructure. The product is being discontinued and the team is joining Shopify, with plans to open source the project.

2 investors

SQLite Cloud provides a backend infrastructure for building offline-first applications across mobile, desktop, browser, and POS systems, with local SQLite writes that sync to cloud databases when connectivity is available.

2 investors

StackGuardian provides an AI-powered platform that automatically discovers cloud resources and converts them into infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and OpenTofu) for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. The platform enables DevOps and cloud engineering teams to codify infrastructure, detect configuration drift, and enforce governance policies without manual toil.

2 investors

Stacklet builds an agentic AI platform for cloud infrastructure governance, applying policy, cost optimization (FinOps), security, and compliance controls automatically across cloud and AI workloads. Built on the Cloud Custodian open-source community, it targets FinOps practitioners, cloud, and platform engineering teams.

2 investors

Stacktape is a platform-as-a-service that deploys applications to a user's own AWS account, provisioning containers, Lambda functions, RDS, Redis and other AWS services without requiring DevOps expertise. It targets developers and engineering teams that want production-grade, cost-optimized AWS infrastructure quickly.

2 investors

Startale builds blockchain infrastructure aimed at bringing mainstream users onchain and bridging traditional systems with the onchain world. The company operates globally and has launched network and cloud offerings while forming joint ventures with large corporations.

2 investors