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Buoyant
Developer tooling for Kubernetes and cloud environments
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- SaaS
- DevOps
- Cloud Computing
- Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
Buoyant's mission is to make the fundamental tools for security and reliability of software freely available to every engineer in the world.
Our take
The adoption of cloud technology has dramatically changed the way businesses run. One major shift in this sphere has been the adoption of Kubernetes - the way to manage containers in aggregate. However, aligning Kubernetes with other computing challenges when dealing with complicated software environments can often be a challenge.
To this end, Buoyant developed Linkerd, a service mesh that delivers observability, security and reliability for your whole environment by sitting on top of Kubernetes. It was a pioneering technology that Buoyant has serviced into a full-scale service adopted by the likes of Microsoft, Nordstrom and Expedia.
There are a number of new features in the pipeline for Linkerd as the service mesh technology continues to add users. In 2022, Buoyant announced a managed service for Linkerd. There are also plans for additional security functionality.
While the startup has impressive levels of enterprise adoption, products like Istio are sometimes winning in greenfield environments. The challenge for Buoyant will be maintaining its market dominance in the face of new, stringent competition from these other service mesh providers.
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Benefits
- Home-office stipend
- Remote first culture
- Health, Dental, Vision and Disability insurance
- 401k
- Unlimited PTO (We strongly encourage people to use it)
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2019
$10m
SERIES B
Jul 2017
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $24m
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Leadership
William Morgan
(CEO)Prior to founding Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he ran several teams building on product-facing backend infrastructure. He has worked at Powerset, Microsoft, adap.tv, and MITRE Corp, and has been contributing to open source for over 20 years.
Oliver Gould
(CTO)Prior to founding Buoyant, he was a staff infrastructure engineer at Twitter, and the tech lead of the Observability, Traffic, and Configuration and Coordination teams.