Isovalent is the creator of the open-source Cilium project and a provider of Isovalent Cilium Enterprise, a platform that delivers secure, observable cloud-native connectivity. Its product leverages eBPF to provide scalable multi-cloud networking, dynamic service load-balancing, service-identity aware firewalling, network and API-layer observability, transparent encryption, runtime security observability/enforcement, and a sidecar-free service mesh. Cilium technology has been selected for managed Kubernetes offerings including Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Anthos, and Amazon EKS Anywhere. Major platform engineering teams at enterprises such as Adobe, Bell Canada, Capital One, Datadog, Palantir, IKEA, and Sky use Isovalent to enable enterprise-grade connectivity. The company announced a $40M Series B to support growth. Isovalent intends to use the proceeds to expand its team to meet customer demand and to collaborate with ecosystem partners. Isovalent commercializes the open-source Cilium project with its newly launched Cilium Enterprise platform, aiming to connect, observe and secure cloud-native applications. The company leverages eBPF and deep Linux kernel expertise to provide networking visibility and advanced security features aligned with how developers and operators think about applications and data. Cilium already has notable adoption — Google selected it for its GKE data plane, and users include Adobe, Capital One, Datadog and GitLab. The founding team includes CEO Dan Wendlandt, formerly of Nicira/VMware working on Open vSwitch, and CTO Thomas Graf, who created Cilium after 15 years working on the Linux kernel. Financially, Isovalent announced a $29 million Series A to support product and commercial expansion. The company says its immediate focus is building out go-to-market efforts while continuing to develop the platform.

Total raised

$69M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2022