Hamburg-based Kubermatic, a company that automates operations of Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud, on-prem, and edge environments, announced that it has raised $6M (approx €5.28M) in its Seed round of funding.
Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
“Run Kubernetes on autopilot”
According to the CNCF, use of containers in production has risen by 300 per cent between 2016 and 2020 and 91 per cent of organisations running containers use Kubernetes for orchestration. Also, tech research and consulting house Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 75 per cent of organisations will be running containerised applications in production.
And this is where Kubermatic wants to operate.
Founded in 2016 by Julian Hansert and Sebastian Scheele, Kubermatic provides enterprise-grade software solutions and professional services to help organisations fully automate their Kubernetes and cloud native operations across multi-cloud, edge, and on-prem environments.
Several organisations are leveraging the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform to automate operations of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure. Some of its existing customers include T-Systems MMS, Allianz, and Siemens.
Capital utilisation
The proceeds from this round will help the company to increase open-source adoption, broaden its international customer base, and accelerate product innovation.
Sebastian Scheele says, “Our vision is to help customers achieve power through automation. We build the world’s most adaptable and autonomous software delivery platform because we want IT teams to focus their time on writing innovative applications that rival the likes of Amazon and Google.”
Investors in this round
The Seed round was led by Nauta Capital with Celonis co-founders Bastian Nominacher and Martin Klenk joining as angel investors.
Speaking on the development, Martin Klenk says, “At Celonis, we pioneered process mining to run business operations entirely on data and intelligence. Containers and Kubernetes are essential to achieve the flexibility, speed, and resilience companies need for scalable business models like ours. Among our enterprise customers, I can observe that container technologies and Kubernetes are becoming the standard for multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud and edge strategies to modernise existing IT infrastructures. I strongly expect Kubernetes to prevail for all mission-critical enterprise applications in the medium term.”
