Komodor
announced a $42 Million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with
participation from Felicis and existing investors Accel, NFX Capital,
OldSlip Group, Pitango First, and Vine Ventures. This brings the
company's total funding to $67 Million since launching out of stealth
less than a year ago to streamline Kubernetes operations.
"There's
a real challenge with day two operations when it comes to Kubernetes,"
said Itiel Shwartz, CTO and Co-Founder of Komodor. "Troubleshooting
Kubernetes and resolving incidents at scale can be overwhelmingly
complex. Komodor's platform bakes in all of the necessary intelligence
and expertise required to make any engineer a seasoned Kubernetes
operator."
Komodor's
automated approach to incident resolution accelerates response times,
reduces MTTR, and empowers dev teams to resolve issues efficiently and
independently. The platform ingests millions of Kubernetes events each
day and then bakes the key learnings directly into the platform. The
company recently launched Playbooks & Monitors that
will alert on emerging issues, uncover their root cause, and provide
the operators with simple-to-follow remediation instructions.
Growth highlights
- Raised $67 Million in total funding from Accel, Felicis Ventures, NFX Capital, OldSlip Group, Pitango First, and Tiger Global.
- Industry-leading
angel investors include Jason Warner, CTO of GitHub; Mike Tria Head of
Platform at Atlassian; Danny Grander, Co-Founder of Snyk; Tomer Levy,
CEO of Logz.io and others.
- Recognized
as a Cool Vendor based on the October 11, 2021 report titled "Cool
Vendors in Monitoring and Observability -- Modernize Legacy, Prepare
for Tomorrow."
- Tripled the team size to nearly 50 employees in the last nine months, with plans to reach 100 employees by the end of the year.
- Revenue growth over 700% in the last 9 months.
"We're
scaling incredibly fast, directly alongside the massive adoption of
Kubernetes," said Ben Ofiri, CEO and Co-Founder of Komodor. "Since the
Series A, we've tripled the size of our team, and we plan to double
again before the end of the year. We have talented engineers researching
all of the ways things go sideways in Kubernetes, and we package this
knowledge into automated playbooks for the benefit of our customers."
Kubernetes
is the most popular graduated project within the Cloud Native Computing
Foundation (CNCF). According to the most recent State of Cloud Native Development Report,
Kubernetes has demonstrated impressive growth over the past 12 months
with 5.6 million developers using Kubernetes today. This represents a
67% increase from just a year ago. However, despite its growing
popularity, complexity remains a top challenge in using and deploying
containers.
"Komodor
is loved by teams adopting Kubernetes because it makes every engineer a
confident technical leader and operator," said John Curtius, Partner at
Tiger Global. "We are thrilled to be backing Ben and the Komodor team
and believe Komodor is a special company."