Developer Tools Startups

Kaskada is a streaming compute engine that connects AI/ML models to real-time and historical data, offering real-time aggregation, event detection, and historical replay for backtesting. Implemented in Rust with Apache Arrow and integrated with Python's AI/ML ecosystem, it targets developers and data teams building real-time AI applications.

2 investors

Keet is a personal learning platform that generates interactive courses on any topic using AI, featuring Duolingo-style lessons with videos, quizzes, and games structured around roadmaps. The product serves learners seeking self-paced education across diverse subjects.

2 investors

Kenn builds agentic development and knowledge systems for software engineers working with AI coding agents. Its first project, AgentsView, provides a local session archive, transcript search, and activity and quality reports to help teams understand what their coding agents did and what it cost.

2 investors

Kerno builds IDE agents using graph and kernel technology that autonomously write, run, and maintain integration test suites for backend developers, helping them catch breaking changes and regressions across user flows and edge cases. It targets backend software developers in the developer tooling space.

2 investors

Kestrel provides AI agents for platform engineering that automate incident response, cloud provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and developer requests through deterministic workflows. The platform enables infrastructure and DevOps teams to build and execute automations using natural language, visual editing, or code across 30+ integrations.

2 investors

KeyDB is an open source, multithreaded database that serves as a faster alternative to Redis, designed for high-throughput applications requiring horizontal and vertical scaling. It supports multiple data structures, persistence options, and advanced features like MVCC non-blocking queries and cross-region multi-master replication.

2 investors

Keymetrics maintains PM2, an open-source process manager for Node.js, along with a web-based monitoring dashboard for tracking application performance, bugs, and exceptions. It also offers an MCP-based AI assistant integration and an enterprise solution for optimizing and scaling Node.js workloads.

2 investors

Khoj builds open-source AI software tools, including a research workbench, an AI co-worker platform, and a personal assistant agent application. The company targets researchers, knowledge workers, and individuals seeking transparent, locally-runnable AI tools.

2 investors

Kickplan provides monetization infrastructure that abstracts payment details from applications and lets growth and product teams build and test pricing, packaging, and usage-based billing models without backend changes. It captures product usage and value metrics as a source of truth and includes cancellation flow tooling aimed at reducing churn and driving expansion revenue.

2 investors

Kiln is a development platform for teams building and shipping AI products, connecting the AI development lifecycle end to end so changes are observable, comparisons are consistent, and iteration remains fast as teams scale. It targets engineers and cross-functional teams working on non-deterministic AI systems, offering version control, evals, and regression tracking tailored to AI development.

2 investors

Kilvin provides a workspace platform and custom software development service for building and deploying internal tools, dashboards, and workflow automation. The company offers both self-service workspace functionality powered by AI agents and managed services where engineers design and build tools tailored to client specifications.

2 investors

Kintohub provides a platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and operate modular code units while managing costs and reliability at scale. The platform targets developers seeking to optimize application development and infrastructure management.

2 investors

Kissflow is a low-code application platform that enables enterprises to build custom apps with built-in integrations to core business systems without writing code. The platform provides pre-built connectors to popular enterprise software and allows users to configure integrations directly within the app builder.

2 investors

Kitemaker is a product development and collaboration tool that helps teams plan, prioritize, and execute projects together. It emphasizes context-sharing and cross-functional communication over traditional task tracking.

2 investors

Kloudfuse provides a unified observability platform that consolidates metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single AI/ML-powered data lake for anomaly detection and root cause analysis. It uses a Self-SaaS, bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) model where enterprises deploy the platform in their own VPC to retain control over data, security, and costs, and it is built on OpenTelemetry and open standards.

2 investors

Kloudle is a sovereign cloud security posture management (CSPM) tool that runs scans on the customer's own infrastructure and stores results in their own PostgreSQL database, without sending cloud inventory data to external systems. It covers AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, and Kubernetes with 1,800+ SQL-based checks accessible via dashboard, CLI, and MCP server, targeting developers and small teams.

2 investors

kluster.ai built tools to verify AI-generated code, checking for bugs, security issues, regressions, and intent mismatches. The team has since joined MITO to work on AI video creation.

2 investors

Kombai is an AI coding and design agent specialized in frontend development, offering a browser-based visual editor that lets developers edit rendered UI, attach DOM elements and screenshots to prompts, and access DevTools data such as console logs, network requests, and CSS rules. It converts visual edits into production-ready code for building web frontends.

2 investors

Korbit uses AI to assist software engineers in writing and reviewing code, enabling development teams to deliver higher-quality software more quickly. The company serves software development teams and organizations across North America.

2 investors

Kosli provides a platform that automates change management, audits, and compliance for DevOps teams working under regulatory and standards requirements. It offers AI-powered governance across the software delivery lifecycle, including build, release, and runtime, for regulated enterprise teams.

2 investors

Kotzilla is the company behind Koin, a Kotlin dependency injection framework used in a large share of native Android applications, and it builds the Kotzilla Platform, AI-native runtime tooling that helps mobile applications detect, understand, and fix issues. It targets mobile developers, offering tools to speed up the mobile development cycle.

2 investors

Kubecost provides tools to track, analyze, and optimize cloud spending, positioned within cloud financial management. It is part of Apptio.

2 investors

Kubermatic builds automation software for running and managing Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Its products serve enterprises and service providers seeking to scale cloud-native infrastructure with a focus on sovereignty and resource efficiency.

2 investors

KubeSail provides tools and custom hardware for self-hosting applications at home, letting individuals run apps like PhotoPrism, NocoDB, and Minecraft while retaining ownership of their data. For businesses, it offers on-demand deployment of software instances to end users, either in the cloud or via pre-configured shipped hardware.

2 investors