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Sudeep Goswami
Sudeep Goswami is the CEO of Traefik Labs, the open-source company behind the widely used Traefik Proxy and the cloud-native API gateway platform Traefik Hub. He stepped into the top job on February 1, 2024, after serving as Chief Revenue Officer, with founder Emile Vauge moving to CTO. Goswami's career spans roughly 25 years across software engineering, network design, product management, marketing, and sales, with earlier stops at Cisco, Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia), Tempo Automation, and Very Good Security. He is known for translating deep infrastructure engineering into commercial growth for developer-focused companies.
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.
Replicated
Replicated is a commercial software distribution platform that helps independent software vendors ship and manage self-hosted, Kubernetes-based applications inside their customers' own environments - on-prem, air-gapped, VPC, VM, bare metal, or edge. Founded in 2015 by Grant Miller and Marc Campbell, the company gives SaaS vendors the tooling to package, install, license, update, and support enterprise deployments they don't directly control, letting them close security-sensitive enterprise and government customers without building distribution infrastructure themselves.
Grant Miller
Grant Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Replicated, a platform that helps software companies ship their applications so enterprise customers can run them inside their own secure, self-managed environments. A self-taught programmer who started his career in technology M&A at Goldman Sachs, Grant first built and sold the mobile live-chat startup Look.io to LivePerson in just nine months, then set out to build a company he never wants to sell. Since founding Replicated in 2015 he has raised more than $80 million, made 'modern on-prem' a category worth taking seriously, and become a recognizable voice in enterprise software as host of the EnterpriseReady podcast.
Coder
Coder is an Austin-based software company that moves software development off individual laptops and into secure, self-hosted cloud development environments (CDEs). Its open-source and enterprise platform uses infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to provision standardized, governed developer workspaces that run on Kubernetes or VMs across any cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped setup. Increasingly, Coder positions itself as the control plane for enterprise AI development, where human developers and AI coding agents work inside the same governed environment. It raised a $90M Series C led by KKR in April 2026.
Grid Dynamics
Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a digital engineering and technology consulting firm that helps Fortune 1000 companies modernize software platforms, build cloud-native systems, and deploy AI and generative-AI solutions. Founded in 2006 out of a Silicon Valley open-source engineering community, the company blends product engineering, data engineering, and digital-engagement services, with a particular strength in retail, financial services, and consumer-facing commerce. It reported record 2025 revenue of $411.8 million and employs roughly 4,900 people across the Americas, Europe, and India.
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.
CircleCI
CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that automates the build, test, and deployment of software. Founded in San Francisco in 2011, it runs tens of millions of workflows for engineering teams who want faster, more reliable pipelines without maintaining their own build infrastructure. It does not host code or track tickets - it focuses on being a fast, dependable runner of builds and, increasingly, on validating AI-generated code at scale.
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.
Greptime
Greptime is an open-source database company building GreptimeDB, a unified observability database that stores metrics, logs, traces, and wide events in a single engine on object storage like Amazon S3. Written in Rust and built on Apache Arrow and DataFusion, it separates compute from storage to cut costs at scale and speaks both SQL and PromQL. Founded in 2022 by ex-Alibaba and Ant Group engineers, Greptime positions GreptimeDB as a drop-in replacement for the Prometheus, Loki, and Elasticsearch stack, serving customers across connected vehicles, IoT, and observability.
Kloudfuse
Kloudfuse is a Cupertino-based observability company that unifies metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single observability data lake that runs inside a customer's own cloud (VPC) rather than a vendor SaaS. Founded in 2022 by veterans of Springpath, Nicira, VMware, and Cisco, it pitches an OpenTelemetry-native, AI/ML-powered platform that gives enterprises data ownership and 60-80% cost savings versus incumbents like Datadog. It launched out of stealth in November 2023 with $23M in funding and is used by companies including GE HealthCare, Zscaler, Tata 1mg, and Automation Anywhere.
Okteto
Okteto is a developer platform that moves Kubernetes development, preview, and testing environments into the cloud. Founded in 2018 by three former Atlassian, Docker, and Google engineers and backed by Y Combinator, Okteto lets developers spin up production-like environments with a single command, sync code changes live in seconds, and automatically create preview environments for every pull request. In 2025 the company extended the same infrastructure to AI coding agents, giving each agent its own isolated, production-like environment to build, test, and verify code at scale.
Parasail
Parasail is a San Mateo-based AI inference cloud that lets developers run open-source and custom models without buying or committing to their own GPUs. Instead of owning chips, it orchestrates rented GPU capacity across roughly 40 data centers in 15 countries plus its own clusters, automatically routing each workload to the cheapest, fastest hardware. Founded in 2023 by Mike Henry (ex-Groq CPO, Mythic founder) and Tim Harris (Swift Navigation founder), the company processes on the order of 500 billion tokens a day and pitches a token-based economy - pay for output, not hardware.
Traefik Labs
Traefik Labs builds the cloud-native networking layer that sits between your users and your services. Its flagship open-source Traefik Proxy - downloaded more than 3 billion times - auto-discovers containers and routes traffic without hand-written config, and its commercial Traefik Hub extends that into a unified 'Triple Gate' platform covering API, AI, and MCP traffic. Founded in France in 2016 and now headquartered in San Francisco, the company's stated goal is to make networking boring: reliable enough that developers stop thinking about it.
VESSL AI
VESSL AI is an MLOps and GPU-cloud company that helps AI teams train, deploy, and scale machine learning models without wrestling with infrastructure. Its platform pools GPU capacity across on-premise clusters and multiple cloud providers, automatically routing workloads to the cheapest available resources - a hybrid, multi-cloud approach the company says can cut GPU spend by up to 80%. Founded in 2020 by ex-Google and PUBG engineers and split between Seoul and the San Francisco Bay Area, VESSL serves roughly 50 enterprise customers and 2,000-plus users, and has expanded into AI-agent tooling with its open-source Hyperpocket project.
Robert Brennan
Robert Brennan is co-founder and CEO of All Hands AI, the company behind OpenHands, an MIT-licensed open source platform for AI coding agents that started life in 2024 as an OpenDevin fork built in 24 hours after Cognition's Devin demo. A former Google search engineer who patented an answer-extraction algorithm shipped inside Google Search in 2013, Brennan later founded DataFire and led open source at Fairwinds before helping launch OpenHands with Xingyao Wang and Graham Neubig. The company has raised roughly $23.8M total across a $5M Menlo-led seed and an $18.8M Series A led by Madrona in November 2025.
Romaric Philogène
Romaric Philogène is the CEO and co-founder of Qovery, a platform-engineering company that turns cloud infrastructure into a self-service experience for developers. A former site reliability engineer with a decade in ad-tech and financial systems, he started Qovery in 2019 with Pierre Mavro and Morgan Perry and, in September 2025, raised a $13M Series A led by IRIS and Crane Venture Partners, with angel checks from Datadog's Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc.
Cake
Cake is a New York-based startup that bundles the sprawling open-source AI stack into a single managed platform, so companies - especially in regulated industries like finance, insurance and healthcare - can deploy AI inside their own cloud without wiring together 100+ tools by hand. Founded in 2022 by Misha Herscu and Skyler Thomas and launched from stealth in December 2024 with a $13M seed led by Google's Gradient Ventures, Cake handles the integration, security, governance and cost-monitoring glue around open-source components like LangChain, Ray, MLflow and vector databases, all deployed inside a customer's own VPC so data never leaves.
Expanso
Expanso is a Seattle-based distributed data processing company built on its open-source Bacalhau project. Instead of shipping raw data to a central cloud, Expanso runs lightweight agents that filter, transform, and govern data at its source - across edge devices, on-prem systems, and multiple clouds. The 'Compute Over Data' approach cuts egress and storage costs, keeps sensitive data in place for compliance, and speeds up pipelines feeding analytics and AI. Founded in 2022 by former Google, AWS, and Microsoft engineers, it raised a $7.5M seed round in 2023.
Inferact
Inferact is a Berkeley- and San Francisco-based AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most widely used open-source engine for running large language models. The company commercializes vLLM - which at any moment powers inference on more than 400,000 GPUs worldwide - by funneling paid engineering resources back into the open project while building a next-generation commercial 'universal inference layer' meant to make AI inference cheaper and faster. Inferact launched publicly in January 2026 with a $150 million seed round at an $800 million valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed.
MetaCell
MetaCell is a life-science software company staffed by scientists and software engineers who turn messy neuroscience and biology data - microscopy, MRI, EEG, electrophysiology, biologically accurate simulations - into usable, shareable, enterprise-grade online tools. Founded by the trio behind the OpenWorm project, MetaCell builds custom scientific software, cloud workspaces, and data pipelines for pharma companies and top research institutions including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Biogen, Eisai, the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and universities like Princeton, Yale, and UCL.
Parallel Works
Parallel Works is a Chicago-based software company, spun out of Argonne National Laboratory in 2015, that builds ACTIVATE - a hybrid multi-cloud control plane for high-performance computing and AI. The platform gives researchers, engineers and defense teams a single interface to provision, orchestrate and share compute across on-premises clusters and the major clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle), with built-in cost governance, role-based access and security controls. In 2025 ACTIVATE's High Security Platform became the first hybrid multi-cloud solution to earn a U.S. Department of Defense IL5 Authority to Operate.
ProjectX
ProjectX is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed startup building Infinity (InfinityOS) - a cloud-native, distributed operating system where every app runs on its own independent compute and GPU inside a single browser tab. Designed for the multi-agent, GPU-native era, it lets humans and AI agents run Blender, Unreal, Isaac Sim, DaVinci, and VS Code side-by-side in one shared workspace.
David Aronchick
David Aronchick is the co-founder and CEO of Expanso, the Seattle company commercializing Bacalhau, an open-source platform that moves computation to where data already lives instead of hauling data to the cloud. A 4x founder, he helped launch Google Kubernetes Engine, co-founded the Kubeflow machine learning project, led open source ML strategy at Microsoft Azure, and ran Compute over Data at Protocol Labs. His through-line is a stubborn belief that technology is not neutral and that distributed systems should make computing cheaper, more private, and more useful at the edge.
Misha Herscu
Misha Herscu is the co-founder and CEO of Cake, a New York based platform that bundles more than 100 open-source AI components into managed, production-ready infrastructure so mid-market teams get the control of a build with the ease of a buy. A Harvard physics graduate turned full-stack engineer, he previously founded the radiology AI marketplace EnvoyAI (McCoy Medical Technologies), which TeraRecon acquired in 2018. After running over 200 customer-discovery calls as an operator in residence at Primary Venture Partners, he started Cake in 2022 with CTO Skyler Thomas and raised a $13M seed round led by Google's Gradient in late 2024.
ngrok
ngrok is developer infrastructure that puts any app, API, or AI model online with a single command. What began in 2013 as one engineer's weekend project to learn Go is now a unified ingress platform - reverse proxy, firewall, API gateway, and global load balancer rolled into one - used by more than 5 million developers and trusted by companies like GitHub, Twilio, Zoom, and HashiCorp.
NodeShift
NodeShift is a decentralized cloud platform that aggregates spare compute, GPU and storage capacity from independent data centers and web3 networks, then resells it through one simplified UI and a single API. By tapping underused infrastructure instead of building hyperscale data centers, NodeShift offers developers and enterprises GPUs, virtual machines and storage at prices it claims are up to 70-80% cheaper than traditional cloud providers - positioning itself as a 'sovereign AI cloud' for teams that want affordable, distributed, compliance-friendly compute.
Pathway
Pathway builds infrastructure for live AI - systems that think and learn in real time instead of being frozen at training. Its source-available Python framework powers high-throughput, low-latency ETL, stream processing, real-time analytics, and RAG/LLM pipelines that stay continuously in sync with sources like SharePoint, Google Drive, S3, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. The company is also developing BDH (Baby Dragon Hatchling), a post-transformer frontier model aimed at solving continual learning and long-horizon reasoning. Pathway is trusted by organizations including NATO, La Poste, and Formula 1 teams.
SORINT.lab
SORINT.lab is a multinational, vendor-neutral 'Next Generation System Integrator' founded in Bergamo, Italy in 1985. With roughly 1,500 engineers across 17 offices in Europe, the USA and Africa, it helps over 100 large organizations run and modernize their IT through DevOps, CI/CD, cloud adoption, application modernization, next-generation IT operations and site reliability engineering. The company is a notable open-source contributor (Agola, Stolon, Ercole, Sircles) and runs on a flat, holacracy-style 'Sircles' organizational model.
Cockroach Labs
Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database engineered to survive failures the way its namesake insect does. Founded in 2015 by three ex-Google engineers, the company combines the horizontal scalability of NoSQL with the strong consistency and PostgreSQL compatibility of a traditional relational database. CockroachDB powers mission-critical workloads at banks, retailers, gaming platforms, and AI companies that need to stay online through outages, scale across regions, and keep data inside specific jurisdictions for compliance.