Heptio was founded by Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda and is based in Seattle. The company offers professional services, training, support and builds complementary open-source projects to help enterprises adopt Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies. Heptio positions Kubernetes as the core around which it builds additional tools and developer workflows. The team focuses on making it easier for enterprises to consume Kubernetes and to engage with the open-source community. Financially, the company has raised institutional funding, including a recent Series B, and decided not to run a seed round. Heptio plans to use new funding to expand in Europe and Asia, grow its team, and potentially make acquisitions to enter new geographies. Heptio was launched by Kubernetes founders Craig McLuckie (CEO) and Joe Beda (CTO) to focus purely on services and tools around Kubernetes for enterprise adoption. The company intends to be a neutral partner to enterprises and will work in the open, contributing to the wider Kubernetes project. Heptio describes itself as a product company that also expects to sell support and services as part of its business model. The team currently consists only of McLuckie and Beda, and the founders say they will scale up quickly using the new funding. The company will join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and plans to address gaps in the Kubernetes toolchain, such as easier ways to stand up clusters. Heptio does not expect to have services on the market for the next few months.

Total raised

$34M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2017