Developer Tools Startups

Karamba Security provides runtime protection and binary hardening software for edge devices, embedded systems, and containerized workloads to prevent AI-enabled attacks and supply chain compromises. The company also offers vulnerability intelligence and compliance automation through its VCode platform for software supply chains.

2 investors

Keploy generates API and integration tests and dependency mocks by capturing real application traffic using eBPF and network-level interception, then replays them against new builds to detect regressions. It provides isolated sandboxes with virtualized databases, queues, and APIs for developers testing changes locally, in CI/CD, or on Kubernetes.

2 investors

Kernel provides infrastructure built on unikernels that enables AI agents to access and interact with the internet through web browsers, featuring fast startup times, stealth capabilities, session persistence, and comprehensive logging for developers.

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

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

Kite was a startup that built AI-based tools to help software developers write code, including editor integrations and a Python type inference engine. The company operated from 2014 to 2021 and has since shut down, with kite.com now listed for sale.

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

Kogniz is a digital platform and content hub that covers technology trends, innovation, and emerging platforms including mobile apps, VR, and PaaS solutions. It serves tech enthusiasts, developers, startup founders, and business leaders with insights, thought pieces, and analysis on how technology shapes daily life and business.

2 investors

Komment is an automated documentation platform that generates and maintains technical software documentation—including in-code comments, API docs, READMEs, and architecture diagrams—directly from a team's codebase and git repositories. It detects divergence between code and docs to keep documentation updated, and is aimed at engineering teams, including privacy-focused organizations that can deploy it within their own environment.

2 investors

Kortix is an open AGI platform that lets companies build, host, manage, and monitor AI agents, with agents, skills, connectors, triggers, and memory stored as files in a single git repository. It can run on a company's own infrastructure and plans to add layers for training custom models and running evaluations on a company's own agent sessions.

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

Kubeark is an AI-powered integration and automation engine that connects existing systems, SaaS apps, and internal APIs through pre-built connectors and orchestrates cross-department workflows. It offers agentic automation with AI agents that can run on-premise to meet data governance and compliance requirements, aimed at enterprises undergoing digital transformation.

2 investors

IBM Kubecost provides real-time visibility, allocation, optimization, and governance for Kubernetes costs across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. It serves engineering, FinOps, and finance teams to reduce cloud spend, with an open-source-based tool built for the cloud native ecosystem.

2 investors

LabLabee builds an AI-powered copilot tool designed to help telecommunications engineers navigate cloud-native and multi-vendor network environments. The platform targets telecom teams globally who are managing the transition from legacy infrastructure to modern architectures.

2 investors

lakeFS provides a data version control and control-plane layer that sits between object storage and the tools, users, and AI agents that work on petabyte-scale multimodal data, offering Git-like branches, commits, and rollbacks without copying data. It targets enterprise ML platform, data engineering, and agentic AI teams that need reproducible, governed, and auditable access to images, video, audio, logs, JSON, and table formats.

2 investors

Lamina Labs operates Simi, a tool that converts presentations, documents, and text prompts into whiteboard explainer videos using AI.

2 investors

Laminar analyzes, builds, and governs enterprise systems for small to large businesses using proprietary implementation intelligence technology. The company serves organizations ranging from small and medium-sized businesses to Fortune 10 companies.

2 investors

Lupin & Holmes provides offensive cybersecurity and social engineering services, drawing on research-based strategies and creative problem-solving. The company serves organizations seeking security testing and vulnerability assessment within the cybersecurity industry.

2 investors

Langfuse is an open-source AI engineering platform that helps teams build and monitor production-grade LLM applications. It provides observability and analytics for teams building with large language models and generative AI.

2 investors

Lantern provides infrastructure and tools on top of Postgres to help companies build reliable AI applications.

2 investors