Slim.AI builds a developer platform that optimizes and secures cloud-native applications, delivering automated, production-ready container images and workflows. The product is built atop the DockerSlim open-source project created by co-founder and CTO Kyle Quest, and the open-source tooling has 300k+ downloads. Slim.AI’s platform goes beyond simple container minification to provide a holistic container-based workflow for developers in organizations large and small. Co-founded by John Amaral and Kyle Quest in January 2021, the company emphasizes a product-led, developer-first approach and has assembled a board of DevOps and cloud-native advisory luminaries. Financially, Slim.AI closed a $6.6M seed in January 2021 and most recently raised a $31M Series A to advance its platform and go-to-market. Slim.ai is developing a commercial product that builds on the DockerSlim open-source tool to simplify container authoring, building, deploying and running. The company aims to optimize container images and integrate with developer workflows, container registries and multiple cloud environments. Slim.ai is still early stage, nurturing the open-source community as a springboard for the paid product, which the team expects to release later this year. The company raised a $6.6 million seed round to support product development and growth. Slim.ai has a small team of about 15 people and emphasizes culture and diversity, having hired a head of culture early. The co-founders are John Amaral (CEO) and Kyle Quest (CTO), the latter of whom created DockerSlim in 2015.

Total raised

$38M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Feb 2022