Buoyant

Creators of Linkerd & the Service Mesh

San Francisco · Founded 2015

Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Employees
11–50
Founded
2015
Business Model
B2B
Website
buoyant.io
Last Round
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, founded in 2015. Its most recent funding was a Venture Round round in Mar 2019. Investors include GV, Benchmark and DCVC (Data Collab).

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