Cloud Computing Startups

Instructure develops Canvas, Mastery, and Parchment—learning management, assessment, and credential management platforms for educational institutions. The company serves educators and students globally through its products and operates the world's largest online community of educators.

7 investors

Lucid provides cloud-based visual collaboration and communication software for teams to visualize workflows, create diagrams, whiteboards, and roadmaps. The platform serves enterprise customers across Fortune 500 companies and is used by over 100 million individual users globally.

7 investors

Mapillary offers a collaborative platform that hosts, processes, and publishes street-level imagery and map data, using computer vision and machine learning to automate map-making at scale. It accepts images from any device—smartphones, action and 360° cameras, dashcams, or professional rigs—and provides cloud access, an image viewer, automatic privacy blurring, and automated data extraction.

7 investors

OpenText provides information management software that helps enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses organize and manage data using cloud, security, and AI tools. It serves industries including healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and the public sector.

7 investors

OXIO builds a programmable Telecom-as-a-Service platform that moves telecom infrastructure into the cloud so it can be distributed like software. It targets businesses looking to launch or customize connectivity offerings and enable new telecom business models.

7 investors

Paperspace provided cloud GPU infrastructure and a machine learning development platform, Gradient, for training and deploying AI models. It was acquired by DigitalOcean in 2023.

7 investors

Passport provides a cloud-based parking management platform that unifies enforcement operations, mobile pay parking, permitting, and payment infrastructure for cities and private parking operators across North America. The platform enables municipalities to manage curb operations, collect parking data for policy decisions, and improve compliance and revenue.

7 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 The product is now superseded by Forma Build, Autodesk's integrated platform combining PlanGrid and BIM 360 features.

7 investors

Platform9 provides a managed private cloud platform that allows enterprises to run virtual machines and containers on existing on-premise hardware infrastructure. The platform serves as an alternative to VMware, offering self-service capabilities, multi-tenancy, and Kubernetes integration with automated migration tooling.

7 investors

Qumulo develops unstructured data management and storage infrastructure serving organizations managing petabyte-scale data workloads in AI, media, genomics, and financial services. The company provides distributed file and object storage solutions designed to reduce operational friction and support complex data operations at exabyte scale.

7 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.

7 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.

7 investors

Rewind provides backup, restore, and copy functionality for critical data across SaaS and cloud applications, serving over 25,000 organizations globally across eCommerce, accounting, productivity, and development use cases.

7 investors

RingCentral provides cloud-based unified communications and AI-powered contact center solutions for businesses, serving over 600,000 customers worldwide. The platform integrates voice, video, messaging, and conversation intelligence to enable secure, efficient enterprise communications.

7 investors

SendGrid provides email delivery and marketing infrastructure via APIs and SMTP services for developers and marketers to send emails at scale. The platform handles transactional and campaign email delivery with a focus on reliability and deliverability.

7 investors

Strata provides identity orchestration software that secures human and agent identities across multiple cloud environments and identity providers without vendor lock-in or application refactoring. The platform enables enterprises to modernize applications, implement passwordless authentication, and achieve operational resilience across distributed computing environments.

7 investors

Telnyx operates a full-stack communications platform that owns its own global carrier network, enabling real-time voice AI, messaging, and inference without intermediary handoffs. The company serves enterprises requiring deterministic routing, reduced latency, and compliance-by-default infrastructure for AI agents.

7 investors

TileDB builds a database platform for organizing, cataloging, and analyzing large-scale data across organizations. The product serves science and data teams seeking to extract insights from complex, diverse datasets.

7 investors

Tizeti Network Africa is an internet service provider offering affordable unlimited internet across Africa through a network of owned and operated solar-powered towers. The company targets African markets with low-cost connectivity infrastructure.

7 investors

Workato provides an integration and automation platform that connects enterprise applications and data systems across cloud and on-premise environments.

7 investors

8base is a backend-as-a-service platform that turns text prompts into application blueprints, generating a data model, test data, custom backend functions, and a GraphQL API for software developers. It offers a fully-managed cloud service with shared, dedicated, and self-host options and SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance for running applications.

6 investors

Ably provides a globally distributed realtime messaging platform for developers, delivering low-latency data transport across internet-connected devices with guarantees around message ordering, idempotency, and connection recovery. It offers products for pub/sub messaging, chat, live state sync, and collaborative environments, along with integrations, enterprise security controls, and usage-based pricing.

6 investors

Acalvio provides ShadowPlex, a deception-based security platform that detects reconnaissance, credential misuse, and lateral movement during red and purple team exercises across IT, cloud, and OT environments. The solution uses strategic deception, honeytokens, and decoys to deliver early detection of attacker behavior and validate defensive gaps without disrupting operations.

6 investors

AccuKnox provides a Zero Trust runtime security platform covering AI, API, application, cloud, container, Kubernetes, and supply chain security for enterprise DevSecOps and security teams. Built on eBPF and the open-source KubeArmor project, it supports deployment across public, private, edge/IoT, on-premise, and air-gapped environments with compliance and GRC coverage.

6 investors