Los Angeles · On-site · $220-280k
Porter.run
Backed byVenrockTotal raised$1.5M
StageSeed
Founded2020
Team size11-50
HQNew York, United States
About Porter.run
Porter is a Platform as a Service that runs in customers' own cloud, enabling companies to deploy applications into their AWS, GCP, or Azure accounts. Under the hood, Porter provisions a Kubernetes cluster in the customer's cloud account and automates day-2 operations for the deployed cluster. The platform aims to provide enterprise-grade reliability and scalability with minimal DevOps overhead, while abstracting away Kubernetes complexity from the end user.
Open positions · 1
Company at a glance
Locations
Los Angeles, United States ·San Francisco, United States ·New York, United States
Investors
Soma Capital ·Translink Capital ·Venrock
Websiteporter.run
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About the Team
Team Distribution
- Engineering39%
- Other Specialized19%
- Business Operations16%
- No Information16%
- Sales & Business Development6%
Where the Team Studied
- 1.University of Pennsylvania
- 2.Yale University
- 3.University of California, Berkeley
- 4.Carnegie Mellon University
- 5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Team Worked At
- Palantir Technologies
- AWS
- Meta
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- IBM
Team Composition
31 people- Engineering1 senior12
- Operations4
- Entrepreneurship3 senior3
- Business Development1
- Education1
- Healthcare Services1
- Leadership1 senior1
- Program and Project Management1
Funding History
SeedJul 2021
$1.5M
raised
Platform-as-a-service startup Porter raised a $1.5M seed from Venrock, Translink Capital, Soma Capital and several angel investors to expand its Heroku-like Kubernetes PaaS and accelerate product development and engineering capacity.
VenrockSoma CapitalTranslink Capital
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