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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.
MontyCloud
MontyCloud is a Redmond, Washington-based software company behind DAY2, a no-code autonomous CloudOps platform that helps IT teams, enterprises, and AWS managed service providers govern, secure, and cut the cost of running cloud infrastructure without writing code or hiring large cloud engineering teams. Founded in 2018 by Venkat Krishnamachari and Kannan Parthasarathy and led by CEO Walter Rogers, the company pairs deep AWS integration with generative and agentic AI to automate routine cloud operations, enforce best practices, and give teams a single dashboard for visibility across multiple accounts and tenants.
Raw Engineering
Raw Engineering is a San Francisco software products-and-services firm founded in 2007 that builds custom mobile apps, websites, SaaS products and cloud infrastructure for Fortune 500 enterprises, sports teams and startups. Best known as the lab that incubated and spun out the headless CMS pioneer Contentstack and the enterprise mobile platform Built.io (acquired by Software AG in 2018), the company today runs five centers of excellence and powers personalized Digital Fan Experience platforms for clients including the Sacramento Kings, Miami Heat and the NBA.
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.