Top 10 Cloud Computing (Paas, IaaS) startups

Updated: January 08, 2024 | Editor: Fernando Lopez

Cloud computing startups in the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) domains are disrupting the market by introducing innovative features such as serverless computing, container orchestration, auto-scaling, multi-cloud management, and AI-driven resource optimization, revolutionizing how businesses develop, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud, achieve greater agility and scalability, and reduce infrastructure costs, challenging traditional cloud computing providers with more flexible and advanced platforms and infrastructure offerings.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.5B
CoreWeave provides GPU-based general-purpose cloud computing platform
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Country: USA | Funding: $491.3M
The developer cloud helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before.
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Country: USA | Funding: $240M
Mirantis is the number one pure-play OpenStack Company. We deliver technology, integration, training and support to succeed. OpenStack without the compromises of vendor lock-in. 400+ open source infrastructure experts makes us one of top 5 contributors.
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Country: USA | Funding: $131M
Joyent is a cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company offering a solution that powers real-time web and mobile applications. Acquired by Samsung
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Country: USA | Funding: $129.6M
Virtustream provides cloud computing management software and infrastructure as a service to enterprises, governments and service providers. Acquired by EMC
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Country: USA | Funding: $127.5M
Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.
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Country: USA | Funding: $56M
Apprenda is the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) powering the next generation of enterprise software development in public, private, and hybrid clouds. As a foundational software layer and application run-time environment, Apprenda removes the complexities of building and delivering modern software applications, enabling enterprises to innovate faster.
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Country: UK | Funding: $20M
OnApp is a company that develops cloud management, CDN and storage software for service providers and enterprises.
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Country: USA | Funding: $13M
Heroku is a multi-language cloud application platform that enables developers to deploy, scale, and manage their applications. Acquired by Salesforce
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Country: Denmark
AppHarbor is a .NET Platform-as-a-Service that deploys codes of developers to AppHarbor's scalable cloud platform.
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com