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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – DOCKER ECOSYSTEM
- Codeship raises $7M, to enhance its CI platform, in Series A funding led by Ascent Venture Partners – Link
- Twistlock, a container security company raises $10M Series A led by security focused fund TenEleven ventures – Link
- Abiquo, a cloud and container management platform raises $250K Series B – Link
- Docker 1.12, provides security and scalability, allows usage of Docker at scale – Link
- Users can bring Linux apps to Mac Desktop with Docker – Link
SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND
Aqua Security (2015, Tel Aviv, $4M) – End to end security platform for containerized applications.
LEADER BOARD – DOCKER ECOSYSTEM
Container Technology
Docker (2008, SF, $180M) – Docker is about making it easy to create, deploy and run applications using containers. It allows to package an application and its dependencies in a container that can be run on any server. Backed By Sequoiacap, Benchmark, Greylock, Trinityventures, Insightpartners, GS, Coatue, Northerntrust, Amecloudventures, SVAngel.
Platform
Tutum (2013, NYC, $2.72M, Acq.) – It provides a container orchestration service to automatically manage and scale cloud infrastructure, and provide a platform on which users can build, deploy and manage containerized applications. Acquired by Docker in October 2015.
PaaS
Dotcloud.com (2008, SF, $11M, Acq.) – It is a developer cloud platform to build, deploy and scale apps. The platform features testing, staging and live environments out of the box to ensure users can deploy hundreds of times per day without breaking the app. Acquired by Cloudcontrol in August 2014.
Iron.io (2011, SF, $17M) – It provides core infrastructure services to let developers focus on development and makes it easy to build and scale cloud applications. The platform follows the pattern of microservices and they provide orchestration services to streamline systems into cohesive architecture. Backed By Baseline ventures, Divergent, Bain Capital Ventures, Ignition Partners.
Giantswarm (2014, Cologne, $2.34M) – It offers customizable solution for running microservices and enables to run and scale microservices. It is mostly suitable for container based applications.Backed By Boxgroup.
Deis (2013, Boulder, $1M) – It is an open source PaaS that makes it easy to deploy and manage applications on own servers. It has created micro-PaaS concept where everyone can run their own PaaS on their own hardware with very little complicated overhead.
Devops
Cloudbees (2010, Woburn, $51M) – It allows developers to deploy applications into the cloud. Jenkins open source community in collaboration with Cloudbees has released six docker related plugins to enable continuous delivery of containerized applications with Jenkins. Backed By ISVP, Verizon, Matrixpartners, Blurcloud ventures.
CoreOs (2013, SF, $48M) – It is a server operating system for running a cluster of servers. The main building block of CoreOs isdocker and any software developers like to use must run within a container. It uses systemd and fleet to manage containers that need to be started based on the resulting build artifact. Backed By Google ventures, KPCB, Accel, Fuelcapital, Ycombinator, A16z.
Shippable (2013, Bellevue, $10M) – It is a docker based continuous integration platform. It is used for creating and building dockerfiles, pushing and pulling images from docker registries, monitoring dependencies, downloading containers and debug any errors or test failures locally. Backed By Madrona, Vulcan, Divergent, Founderscoop, Techstars, Skvcap.
Codeship (2011, Vienna, $4.4M) – It offers continuous delivery services and ParallelCI. The platform automates software deployments and supports docker by enabling customization for development environments and in deployment of docker images. Backed By Sigmaprime, Bostonseed, Fprimecapital, Techstars, Rothenbergventures, Seedcamp.
Wercker (2012, Amsterdam, $7M) – It is a platform to continuously develop, build and deploy containers. It allows visibility into deployment and provides more consistent builds on Docker. Backed By Rockstar, Notioncapital, Tolacapital, Vitulumventures, Shamrock, Greylock, Webfwd.
Networking
Weave Works (2014, London, $20M) – It address Docker`s networking issue by providing Docker containers with a single virtual network even if they are on a different host.
Container Management
Univa (2010, Illinois, $39M) – It provides workload orchestration and container optimization solutions. Its grid engine is used to rundocker containers which creates a self contained run time environment that accelerates development. Backed by Corecaptial, Hatterasfunds, Iandpdev, Archventure, Pritzkergroup, Appianvc, Rccf, Ocaventures.
Portworx (2014, California, $8.5M) – A software defined application providing scale out storage for containerized applications. Backed by Mayfield, Msdcapital, Stanford.
Circleci (2011, SF, $7.5M) – A continuous integration and deployment platform used for building and deploying containers by pulling images from docker hub. Backed By SVAngel, Dfj, 500, DCVC, Harrisonmetal, Baselinev.
Appformix (2013, San Jose, $7M) – Real Time infrastructure monitoring for docker containers. Backed By Augustcap.
Stackengine (2014, Austin, $4.5M, Acq.) – Docker image and container management for IT Ops – Container operations management. Backed by Liveoakvp, Silvertonpartners. Acquired by Oracle in December 18,2015.
Calm (2014, Bangalore, $4M) – Platform to deploy, manage, and maintain distributed applications in private and public cloud environments. It is used for docker container orchestration. Backed By Sequoiacap.
BigData
Pachyderm (2015, California, $2.1M) – Containerized data analytics package. It is a copy-on-write distributed file system that offers complete version control for data. Backed By YCombinator, Susaventures, Somacaptial, Foundationcapital, DCVC, Crunchfund, Blumbergcapital, Aceandcompany.
Container Security
Cloudpassage (2009, SF, $53M) – Halo security platform for secure docker container deployment. Backed By Shastaventures, Meritechcapital, Tenayacapital, Museaventures, Benchmark.
Aqua Security (2015, Tel Aviv, $4M) – Container security solutions for virtual containers with added visibility and control to large environments. Backed By TLV partners.
Twistlock (2015, SF, $3.1M) – Security solution for Docker for visibility and control over container based applications and data. Backed By YLventures.
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