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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.
Luis Garrido
Luis Hernandez Garrido is the co-founder and CEO of Uptodown, the world's largest alternative app store, which he launched in 2002 as a university project in Malaga, Spain. Over two decades he has grown it into a platform with 130 million monthly active users and 450 million APK downloads per month - all without a single outside investor. Now based in Berkeley, California, he champions open internet principles, device neutrality, and democratized software distribution, and is an active voice in the Coalition for App Fairness pushing back against Google and Apple's app store dominance.