Rafay Systems provides a Kubernetes Operation Platform that enables platform teams to operate modern application infrastructure at scale across public clouds, data centers, and the Edge. The platform streamlines deploying apps across multiple environments and offers enterprise-grade control and governance for application deployment workflows through a single, unified platform. Customers include Verizon, SonicWall and Appzen. The company is led by CEO Haseeb Budhani and is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. Rafay intends to use the new funding to continue hiring engineers and to grow its sales, marketing, and customer success teams. In conjunction with the Series B, ForgePoint Venture Partner Leo Casusol will join Rafay's board. Rafay Systems offers a SaaS platform that manages the lifecycle of containerized applications across Kubernetes clusters in cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. Its core capabilities include application abstraction, cluster blueprinting, multi-cluster operations, and enterprise integrations for secrets management, runtime configuration updates, and log/metrics aggregation. The company announced general availability of its SaaS offering and uses pay-as-you-go pricing based on the number of nodes or clusters under Rafay management. Rafay targets DevOps and site reliability engineering teams facing steep learning curves and operational complexity when modernizing applications with Kubernetes. Customers include SonicWall, which the company cites as a reference for its container orchestration expertise. Financially, Rafay announced an $8 million funding round and had previously raised $4.1 million in a seed round.

Total raised

$33M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Aug 2021