# Upbound

> Upbound builds commercial software and services around Crossplane, the open source control plane framework it created. Platform teams use its managed and self-hosted products to expose approved infrastructure through APIs, continuously reconcile resources, and govern fleets of control planes. Its newer Modelplane project applies the approach to AI inference.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Bassam Tabbara (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Upbound Platform v3, Upbound Crossplane (UXP) 2.0, Upbound Control Plane and Spaces, Upbound Insights, Hub, Console, and Up CLI
- **Notable:** Created and open-sourced Crossplane in 2018., Crossplane became a CNCF graduated project in 2025; the public announcement was November 6., Raised US$69 million in announced funding through the November 2021 round.

## Products & services

- **Upbound Platform v3** — Commercial platform with fleet-wide visibility, APIs, identity, and governance for control planes.
- **Upbound Crossplane (UXP) 2.0** — Commercial distribution built on Crossplane with enterprise runtime and support capabilities.
- **Upbound Control Plane and Spaces** — Managed control planes and deployment options for cloud and self-hosted environments.
- **Upbound Insights** — Fleet inventory and health views for resources, packages, and definitions.
- **Hub, Console, and Up CLI** — Shared API, browser interface, and command-line tooling for operating the platform.
- **Official Packages and Marketplace** — Supported cloud integrations and a catalog of providers, functions, and configurations.
- **Control Plane Projects and Unified Testing** — Developer tooling for composition authoring, offline rendering, and end-to-end verification.
- **Professional services and enterprise support** — Architecture reviews, migration guidance, training, and production assistance.
- **Modelplane** — Early-development Apache 2.0 open source control plane for scheduling and serving AI inference across infrastructure providers.

## Achievements

- Created and open-sourced Crossplane in 2018.
- Crossplane became a CNCF graduated project in 2025; the public announcement was November 6.
- Raised US$69 million in announced funding through the November 2021 round.
- Millennium bcp case study reports an SLA reduction from eight days to eight minutes.
- Grupo Boticário case study reports deployments in minutes rather than more than seven days.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published a bare-metal inference walkthrough using Crossplane and Modelplane on September 29.
- **2026-09** — Published Project Champagne, an internal inference deployment with a US$15,000 monthly starting budget, on September 28.
- **2026-09** — Explained offline composition testing with Up CLI on September 3.
- **2026-08** — Launched Platform v3 with Hub, Insights, and unified fleet governance on August 19.

## Links

- Website: https://www.upbound.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/upbound-io/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/upbound_io
- GitHub: https://github.com/upbound
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_v2HL0pdqtShHD-ZDDTaA
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/upboundio/

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Last updated: 2026-10-03