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Cavallo Technologies Is Selling Banks the Part of AI Nobody Demos: Getting It Into Production
The Burnaby consultancy has made a business of the awkward middle between an impressive AI prototype and a governed system people can actually use. Its playbook - narrow the first use case, measure the answers, preserve permissions and ship in weeks - is unusually copyable.
The Microsoft Cloud Has a Fine-Print Problem - Interlink Built a Business Translating It
The Mason, Ohio consultancy found its lane between Microsoft's sprawling catalog and the people expected to make it all work. Its pitch is less cloud cheerleading than practical translation: buy less, secure it properly, and get employees to use it.
When the Cloud Goes Down, Parametrix Cuts the Check in Days
A New York insurtech wrote a policy that pays out automatically when AWS, Azure or Google Cloud stops working. Then, on one July morning, CrowdStrike proved the whole thesis was worth billions.
Pragmatic Works Sold the Software, Sold the Consulting - and Kept the Classroom
Brian Knight built three businesses under one roof, sold two of them, and discovered the least glamorous piece was the one he wanted to keep. Today Pragmatic Works turns Microsoft's endless release cycle into a training flywheel anyone can borrow.
The Layer Between Your Database and the Cloud Bill
Kaminario spent a decade selling flash arrays. Then it threw out the hardware, kept the software, and bet the company on a single idea: that the cloud is fast enough for anything - if you put the right layer in front of it.
Kovai.co
A Microsoft consultant noticed a gap in a server product, wrote a tool to fill it, and never took a dollar of venture money. Fifteen years later Kovai.co runs four software products and 290 people from London and Coimbatore.
Kion
Kion is a Columbia, Maryland software company that builds a self-hosted FinOps+ platform for managing cloud operations across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Founded in 2018 as cloudtamer.io and rebranded as Kion in 2021, the company combines cloud financial management, policy-based governance, and continuous compliance into a single platform that runs inside a customer's own cloud environment. Its software is used by commercial, higher-education, and government organizations - including NASA, the CDC, Verizon, and Indeed - to control cloud spend, enforce guardrails, and automate account provisioning through retirement.
Qovery
Qovery is an internal developer platform and agentic Kubernetes management solution that lets engineering teams deploy and run production-grade infrastructure inside their own cloud accounts. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York with a remote team, it layers a Heroku-like developer experience on top of AWS, GCP, Azure and Scaleway - automating environment provisioning, ephemeral pull-request environments, and day-2 Kubernetes operations so developers can ship without becoming DevOps experts. The company raised a $13M Series A in 2025 and is used by tens of thousands of developers across more than 100 countries.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a global technology company founded in 1975 that builds software, cloud services, devices and gaming platforms used by billions of people and organizations. Best known for Windows and the Office/Microsoft 365 productivity suite, it now anchors its future on the Azure cloud and Copilot AI, positioning itself as core infrastructure for enterprise computing and the generative-AI era.
Executech
Executech is a managed IT services provider (MSP) based in South Jordan, Utah, that delivers outsourced IT support, cybersecurity, cloud, and compliance services to organizations across the western United States. Founded around 1999 by Eric Montague on a 'People First' philosophy, the company grew from a one-person operation in a garage into one of the region's largest and most-awarded IT outsourcing firms, backed since 2017 by Evergreen Services Group. It supports hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of end users across sectors like healthcare, finance, government, education, and manufacturing.
Fresche Solutions
Fresche Solutions is a Montreal-based enterprise software and services company that helps organizations manage, maintain, and modernize their IBM i (AS/400) and Microsoft systems. With more than 40 years of IBM i heritage, Fresche combines proprietary modernization tools such as X-Analysis, Presto, and Newlook with managed services, cloud hosting, and AI-driven data analytics to help legacy-dependent businesses move to modern web UIs, contemporary languages, and cloud platforms without disrupting operations.
InfoObjects Inc.
InfoObjects Inc. is a San Jose-based AI consulting and digital transformation firm, founded in 2005 by Rishi Yadav. Built originally around the open-source big data stack - Apache Spark, Kafka and Hadoop - the company has repositioned around generative and agentic AI, offering services from data engineering and cloud migration to LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation and AI application development. It partners with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Anthropic and OpenAI, and works with enterprise clients across finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
Just After Midnight
Just After Midnight (JAM) is a London-founded, globally distributed managed services company that keeps mission-critical, customer-facing digital platforms running around the clock. It provides 24/7/365 application, website and cloud support, managed cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud, and DevOps consultancy - acting as the after-hours and full-stack support partner behind major brands and digital agencies. Founded in 2016 to solve the problem of out-of-hours support that agencies struggle to staff, JAM now operates across four continents and is part of the Ultima group.
EverOps
EverOps is a San Francisco-based IT and cloud managed services provider that embeds small teams of senior engineers - called TechPods - directly inside client organizations to run DevOps, SRE, ITOps, and security work. Founded in 2012 and re-capitalized in 2022, the firm pitches itself as an alternative to advice-only consulting and staffing shops: pods sit in the client's toolchain, attend standups, and take ownership of outcomes across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, observability, and cloud cost reduction.
StoneFly, Inc.
StoneFly, Inc. is a Castro Valley, California enterprise storage company founded in 1996 that helped turn iSCSI into an industry standard - it registered iSCSI.com in March 1996 and shipped one of the first iSCSI storage appliances in 2002. Today it builds NAS, SAN, unified scale-out (USO), backup and disaster-recovery appliances, and cloud storage, all powered by its patented StoneFusion operating system and Air-Gapped Vault immutable, ransomware-resistant technology. A subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory (DNF), StoneFly serves 10,000+ customers from SMBs to Fortune 500 and government - including deployments aboard US Navy Littoral Combat Ships and Virginia-class submarines.
BEMO
BEMO is a Redmond, Washington-based managed IT and security service provider built specifically for small and mid-sized businesses that run on Microsoft 365 and Azure. Founded in 2010 by ex-Microsoft veterans Bruno Lecoq and Joel Lachance, the fully remote company bundles cybersecurity, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, NIST 800-171), managed helpdesk, and AI/Copilot security into packaged tiers so 10-to-500-person organizations can meet audit requirements without hiring an in-house security team. BEMO is a repeat Microsoft US Partner of the Year and a four-time Inc. 5000 honoree.
Trianz
Trianz is a Silicon Valley digital-transformation firm that has reinvented itself from a traditional IT consultancy into an IP-led, 'Transformation Services as Software' company. Founded in 2001 by former special-forces officer Sri Manchala, it builds hyper-automated platforms - Concierto for multi-cloud migration and operations, Extrica for turning data into AI, and Pulse for the digital workplace - to accelerate transformations for Fortune 1000 and emerging enterprises across data, analytics, cloud, and security.
Archera
Archera is a Bellevue, Washington FinOps company that turns long-term cloud commitments into short, insured ones. Its free multi-cloud platform gives teams cost visibility, forecasting, and purchasing recommendations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, then layers on its signature Insured Commitments - reserved instances and savings plans wrapped with a money-back guarantee and terms as short as 30 days. The result is commitment-level discounts of roughly 30-40% without the multi-year lock-in. Founded in 2019 by brothers Aran and Nikhil Khanna, Archera manages over $3.4B in annual cloud spend for more than 1,000 customers.
Coiled
Coiled is a lightweight cloud compute platform that lets Python users scale data science, machine learning, and AI workloads from a laptop to thousands of cloud machines without Docker or Kubernetes. Founded in 2020 by Matthew Rocklin, the creator of the open-source Dask library, Coiled runs inside a customer's own AWS, GCP, or Azure account, handling provisioning, autoscaling, environment replication, and cost visibility so data teams can run Dask clusters, serverless functions, and batch jobs with minimal friction.
WAi Technologies
WAi Technologies is a Santa Clara-based digital engineering and AI services company that helps enterprises modernize legacy .NET applications and ship software faster. As a long-standing Microsoft partner, it pairs Azure, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform expertise with its own product line: the open-source Raaghu Design System and AI Pundit, an AI toolchain that converts Figma designs into production-ready front-end code. Its current bet is 'spec-driven' AI delivery - keeping humans in control of strategy while AI does the building.
Zelar
Zelar (ZelarSoft) is a cloud-native engineering and consulting firm that helps banks, telcos, oil & gas, and government teams adopt Kubernetes, DevOps, and AI without the usual pain. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Vasu Maganti, the company pairs hands-on services - cloud migration, SRE, security, and data engineering - with its own platforms: Klusternetes for self-service Kubernetes multi-tenancy, OpenOps for production-ready GKE stacks, and Cokpit for agentic AI DevOps. A Google Cloud Premier Partner with offices across the US, Canada, India, and the UAE, Zelar bets that most teams want cloud-native outcomes, not cloud-native homework.
Armada
Armada is a San Francisco-based edge computing company that builds ruggedized, containerized data centers - the Galleon family and the megawatt-scale Leviathan - paired with Starlink connectivity and an AI orchestration platform. Its mission is to put AI and compute everywhere the cloud can't reach: oil rigs, mines, ships, forward operating bases, and remote industrial sites.
DuploCloud
DuploCloud is a San Jose-based DevOps automation platform that turns plain-English application requirements into production-ready, compliance-aware cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP. Founded by ex-Microsoft Azure engineer Venkat Thiruvengadam, it aims to give Main Street IT the hyperscale automation patterns once locked inside Big Tech.
Workspot, Inc
Workspot is a cloud-native platform that delivers Windows and Linux desktops, apps, and GPU workstations as a service across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. Built for enterprises moving away from legacy VDI, it lets IT teams provision a global cloud PC fleet in days rather than months.
Pump.co
Pump.co is a San Francisco-based AI cloud platform that pools AWS commitments across hundreds of startups to deliver enterprise-grade discounts - up to 60% off - with no engineering work or long contracts. Founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator, it has grown into a multi-product 'intelligent cloud' covering cost optimization, visibility, and security.