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Akuity
Akuity is the enterprise company founded by the creators of the open-source Argo project. It offers a fully managed, GitOps-based continuous delivery platform for Kubernetes, built around managed Argo CD, the Kargo promotion engine, KubeVision real-time visibility, and AI agents that troubleshoot and remediate deployments. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Akuity helps enterprises adopt Kubernetes with less operational complexity and stronger security.
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.
Tenry Fu
Tenry Fu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spectro Cloud, the enterprise Kubernetes management platform trusted by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, GE HealthCare, T-Mobile, and Nokia. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in system software, Fu previously co-founded CliQr Technologies - which Cisco acquired for $260M in 2016 - before returning with his same co-founders to tackle the next hard problem: making Kubernetes manageable across any environment at any scale. Spectro Cloud has raised $142.5M in total funding, including a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and holds a post-money valuation of $750M.