Buoyant
Creators of Linkerd & the Service Mesh
San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015 · $20.5M raised
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Employees
- 11–50
- Founded
- 2015
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- buoyant.io
- Total Funding
- $20.5M
- Last Round
- $10.0M Venture RoundMar 2019
- Rounds
- 3
About
Buoyant is the creator of Linkerd, the CNCF-graduated open-source service mesh for Kubernetes, and offers Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd as a production-ready commercial distribution. The platform provides zero-trust security, ultra-high availability, and network cost savings for cloud-native applications. Built entirely in Rust, Linkerd is used by enterprises including Walmart, Expedia, and Comcast for mission-critical workload reliability and observability.
Summary
Buoyant is a Cybersecurity company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2015. It has raised $20.5M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $10.0M Venture Round in Mar 2019. Investors include GV, Benchmark and DCVC (Data Collab).
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Funding History
Mar 2019
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Funding: Seed through Venture Round. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
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