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Virtkick
AcquiredTechstars '15San Antonio, US · Founded 2014 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
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Virtkick provides a virtualization management platform powered by KVM that enables resellers and hosting providers to manage client infrastructure and billing through a customizable white-label panel. The platform handles deployment, maintenance, payment processing, and software updates.
Also known as Virtkick, Inc.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Virtkick, Inc. is a software company offering a Software-as-a-Service VPS control panel for hosting providers. Customers connect their own dedicated servers (hypervisors) to the hosted Virtkick panel over IP and SSH; Virtkick then upgrades system packages, installs libvirt and an image synchronization agent, reads server specifications, installs its public key and tunes configuration files, turning a stock CentOS 7 machine into a usable hypervisor. End users of the hosting provider then use the panel to buy, create and run virtual machines.
The product covers virtual machine management, IP pool handling, plan creation, integrated billing and invoicing, an integrated support and notification system, custom ISO and image management, hypervisor metrics, geographic regions, a REST API and a mobile-friendly interface. Ready-made images are provided for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Arch Linux, and any ISO supported by KVM can be added. The panel can be fully white-labeled with the provider's own logo, colors and custom domain (for example panel.yourcompany.com). Stated roadmap items have included bandwidth limiting, Bitcoin payments, hourly plans, coupons, GitHub and Google Apps sign-in, IPv6, DNS and RevDNS, WHMCS/Blesta login integration, live chat, third-party add-ons such as monitoring and fraud prevention, and OpenVZ and Docker virtualization alongside Debian and Ubuntu hypervisor support.
The company is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and was founded in 2014. It is classified under software publishing (NAICS 5112) and operates with a very small team.
Founding story
Virtkick, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is led by co-founder Damian Nowak, who serves as CEO and software engineer.
Business model
Virtkick sells its control panel as a subscription SaaS product rather than licensed on-premise software, hosting, developing and maintaining the panel itself while the hosting provider supplies the hardware and owns the end-customer relationship. Published plans are Fighter at $49 per month and Frigate at $99 per month, each covering up to five hypervisors with $15 and $25 per month respectively for each additional hypervisor, plus a custom-priced Destroyer tier that adds 24x7 premier support and a 99.9% SLA. The Fighter tier excludes billing and is for internal use only; higher tiers add Stripe and PayPal payments, monthly and annual plans, custom domains and full white-labeling. A seven-day money-back guarantee is offered.
Recurring monthly subscription fees paid by hosting providers, tiered by plan and by number of connected hypervisors. Revenue from end-customer VM sales flows directly to the provider through their own Stripe (credit cards) and Braintree (PayPal) accounts; where those gateways are unavailable in a provider's country, Virtkick, Inc. collects funds on the provider's behalf, is listed as seller on invoices, and remits monthly.
Traction
Third-party profiles estimate annual revenue below $1 million and a headcount of roughly 1-10 people as of August 2026.
Latest developments
In December 2016, OnApp Limited announced its intention to acquire Virtkick.
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Market position
Virtkick operates in the hosting/cloud management panel market alongside products such as Plesk, cPanel, Cloudron and RunCloud, targeting smaller independent hosting providers competing with large cloud and hosting incumbents.
Virtkick positions its panel around user-interface design and conversion optimization for hosting providers' storefronts, zero setup and fully managed upgrades under a SaaS model, 15-second provisioning, and full white-labeling, as an alternative to conventional control panels. If a provider stops using Virtkick, existing virtual machines remain operational on the provider's own servers.
Technology
The platform uses KVM virtualization with libvirt on hypervisors running CentOS 6 and 7, with recommended hardware of at least 8-16 GB RAM and virtualization enabled in BIOS. Setup uses a temporary root password to install Virtkick's public key, after which connections are key-based. Billing integrates Stripe and Braintree/PayPal. Third-party tools reported in use include Firebase, Intercom, Optimizely, Hotjar, Mailgun, Google Workspace, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Bootstrap and jQuery.
Go-to-market
Self-service online sign-up from the company website with a public demo, published pricing tiers, documentation, a newsletter and live chat plus email contact for sales questions; a custom-priced enterprise tier is sold via direct contact.
Independent and small hosting companies and resellers that want to sell VPS services, and indirectly their end customers — software developers, software houses, designers and other individuals needing hosting.
Geography
Headquartered at 110 E Houston St, San Antonio, Texas, United States, with employees reported in North America; the product is sold online to hosting providers who supply their own hardware, including from European providers such as OVH and Hetzner.
History
Founded in 2014 and based in San Antonio, Texas, Virtkick developed a hosted KVM-based VPS control panel, publishing product documentation authored by staff developer Joe Pettit as of May 2016. In December 2016 cloud management software provider OnApp Limited announced its acquisition of the company.
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Companies working in the same space as Virtkick.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsOnApp, a cloud management software provider, announced its intention to acquire Virtkick; the announcement is dated December 25, 2016.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Virtkick do?
- Virtkick is a SaaS, KVM-based white-label VPS control panel that lets hosting providers sell and manage virtual machines.
- Who are Virtkick's investors?
- Virtkick's investors include Techstars, Commerce Ventures, Geekdom.
- Where is Virtkick headquartered?
- Virtkick is headquartered in San Antonio, US.