Brainchild is a collective of engineers, operators, and designers that create products and services to solve some of the most significant problems facing consumers in healthcare, technology and consumer products. They consist of HERO, Onomie and The Arrivals.They also operate in both a technical and creative environment.  Brainchild also teams up with exceptional entrepreneurs to support their vision becoming a reality. To date, BCH has invested in 120 companies, 250 founders, with $4BB in follow-on capital, introductions, talent, growth, product, financing and strategy. Brainchild Holding’s seed investments include well-known companies such as Warby Parker, Oscar, sweetgreen, ClassPass, Tilt, Docker, Outdoor Voices, Gusto, Harry’s, Elysium, Seatgeek, and Smart Things; We also strategically support venture and later stage businesses.

Brainchild Holdings

Morado Ventures is focused on high-growth, seed-stage technology companies, with particular emphasis on “Data-fueled” businesses. The firm currently invests in Artificial Intelligence, Data Infrastructure, Industrial Internet, Robotics & Autonomy, Computer Vision, and Health. Morado Ventures was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.

Morado Ventures

Webb Investment Network is an investment firm that particularly in mobile, consumer Internet, and cloud applications. With its Affiliate Network, the firm draws not only from Maynard’s experience and insight but from those CEOs, CTOs, founders, and investors who make up the WIN Affiliate Network to provide our portfolio companies with on-demand advice and support.

Webb Investment Network

We're Acequia Capital, a team and partnership with roots in Albuquerque. We're knowledge workers and systems thinkers who love to keep good company in most fields.

Acequia Capital (AceCap)

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology with unique computing and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.

DCVC

Signia Venture Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs realize their vision and build impactful, high-growth ventures. We invest between $500k and $3m for an initial investment across a wide range of technology businesses, including within marketplaces, ecommerce, gaming, consumer mobile, virtual reality, enterprise technology, big data, and security.

Signia Venture Partners

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plus outcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

Wing Venture Capital

Citi Ventures utilizes Citi's resources to support individuals, businesses, and communities amid technological changes. Based in San Francisco with offices in New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Citi Ventures focuses on discovering new value by exploring, developing, and investing in innovative ideas, and collaborating with Citi employees, clients, and the broader innovation community.

Citi Ventures

Silicon Valley Data Capital fuels that change connectivity and artificial intelligence drive an explosion of data, today’s enterprises are ill-equipped to handle the changes. Traditional enterprises cannot ignore their data-driven challengers, but are invested deeply with legacy vendors, who are slow to realize that the game hasn’t just gotten faster, but that it’s changing altogether.

Silicon Valley Data Capital

AME Cloud Ventures focuses on seed to later stage companies building infrastructure and value chains around data. It specializes in technology-heavy companies gathering or creating unique data at every stage of the data stack — from infrastructure all the way to applications, mobile, and sensors.  It strives to find, fund, and support true entrepreneurs. The firm provides a unique and genuine set of resources to our founding teams, from strong operational and business experience to networks of amazing mentors and international partners, particularly in China. AME Cloud Ventures is the venture fund led by Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!

AME Cloud Ventures

Pepperdata

Today’s enterprises rely on big data to improve decision-making, deliver better customer experiences, and enter new markets. But the volume, variety, and velocity of data in the cloud can make it difficult to effectively manage big data performance. Pepperdata was founded to solve this problem. What started as a prototype built in a Silicon Valley basement over a decade ago, is now the only cloud cost optimization solution that delivers dynamic cost savings—continuously and in real-time—on Amazon EMR and Amazon EKS with no application changes or manual tuning.   Pepperdata’s decade of intelligent engineering—developed and tuned by founding Hadoop engineers and cloud experts from Yahoo, Google, and Netflix—keeps some of the world’s most complex data environments perfectly in balance. Our core dynamic optimization technology is based on the company’s ten-year heritage of observability and has been battle tested in some of the most demanding on-prem and cloud environments on the planet. No other company delivers Pepperdata’s combination of real-time, continuous, autonomous, and scalable compute cost optimization. Pepperdata’s customers include the largest, most complex, and highly-scaled clusters in the world, at top enterprises such as Citibank, T-Mobile, Autodesk, Securonix, Royal Bank of Canada, and those in the Fortune 5. Learn how you, too, can extract more from your Kubernetes and big data infrastructure with Pepperdata.

Pepperdata provides a cloud-based platform for continuous, real-time, and automated cost optimization solutions specifically designed for Kubernetes and big data environments.

Platforms to make the most of cloud infrastructure

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Capacity optimization and cost controls drive Pepperdata’s solutions in a big data world

Expedia

Announced that Expedia has selected Pepperdata as its partner in operationalizing its Big Data systems. The Pepperdata product suite enables Expedia to develop, deploy, and optimize Big Data applications more quickly and more cost effectively.

Pepperdata provides a cloud-based platform for continuous, real-time, and automated cost optimization solutions specifically designed for Kubernetes and big data environments.The company specializes in enhancing the performance of cloud-based data systems, particularly on platforms like Amazon EMR and EKS. According to the company, its technology allows organizations to achieve significant cost savings (up to 47%) without requiring any changes to application code or manual tuning.&nbsp;Pepperdata’s flagship offering, Capacity Optimizer, continuously monitors and adjusts the performance to enable cloud cost savings and cluster efficiency by maximizing resource utilization based on actual demand, deploying autoscaling solutions in real time for adding new instances, and reclaiming capacity from over-provisioned applications. Further, the platform offers a single-pane-of-glass visibility for comparison and observation of application-level metrics, along with optimized recommendations for increasing efficiency.Pepperdata operates a direct sales model.Key customers and partnershipsPepperdata’s customer base includes enterprises with large and highly-scaled clusters. Some notable clients are Citibank, T-Mobile, Autodesk, Securonix, and Royal Bank of Canada.

Harness is a cloud-based end-to-end software delivery platform that provides cloud cost management (CCM), among other modules.Harness CCM offers a holistic set of features to facilitate cost optimization of the development pipeline. It provides a single customizable dashboard to unify data and insights across multiple departments and cloud vendors. Further, it delivers automated anomaly detection and resource allocation to optimize continuous delivery (CD) workflows and allows for seamless integration with existing monitoring tools for an overview of cloud spend.In <a href="http://v">January 2024</a>, Harness acquired Armory, a continuous delivery platform company, for USD 7 million, with plans to integrate some of Armory’s technology into its products. Furthermore, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29964">May 2024</a>, it acquired Split Software, a company specializing in feature management and experimentation, for an undisclosed sum. Harness aimed to integrate Split's feature management and experimentation capabilities into its software delivery platform to offer a comprehensively integrated solution that allows software teams to build, deploy, test, and refine software features efficiently and effectively.Harness operates a consumption-based sales model with pricing based on the annual cloud spend.Key customers and partnershipsHarness CCM’s clientele ranges from individuals to large-scale enterprises across various industries, including healthcare, IT, finance, service, and SaaS. Notable customers include Synopsys, Relativity, Discover Dollar, and Carvana.Harness collaborates with many industry leaders to ensure wide service provision and integrations with various tools and platforms. Some of its key technology partners are HashiCorp, Benchmark, and Insight.

Harness

Cloudchipr is a company specializing in cloud cost optimization and automation solutions.CloudChippr helps businesses reduce cloud expenses by identifying inefficiencies and recommending cost-saving measures. It provides real-time insights into cloud usage, automates cost allocation, and offers actionable recommendations for optimizing resources. Additionally, CloudChippr simplifies cloud management by integrating with popular cloud platforms, enabling organizations to maximize their cloud investments and minimize waste while ensuring optimal performance across cloud environments.Cloudchipr adopts a subscription-based approach.Key customers and partnershipsCloudchipr’s customer base includes DISQO, ServiceTitan, Activeloop, AimHub, Podcastle, and SuperAnnotate.Cloudchipr Cloud provides native integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Cloudchipr

Vega Cloud is a technology company offering a cloud cost optimization and management platform.The Vega Cloud Platform provides visibility and organization of cloud infrastructure with a unified view across major cloud providers. Vega Cloud platform provides near real-time data to influence spending and make intelligent trade-off decisions between cost, quality, and speed. The platform's proprietary unit economics and outcomes-oriented approach to cloud infrastructure optimization uses data context and automation to help businesses make decisions efficiently.Vega Cloud employs a subscription-based pricing model.Key customers and partnershipsVega Cloud provides native integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.The company’s clientele includes entertainment companies like CBS, Paramount, MTV, VH1 and others such as ITRON, Cal Poly, and ClearData.

Vega Cloud

StackZone offers a suite of technology solutions for optimizing and enhancing various aspects of AWS cloud operations.StackZone's range of products and features encompasses AWS management tools, infrastructure optimization solutions, security services, application performance management, cost optimization solutions, analytics and reporting, automation, and support/consulting services. These offerings cater to various IT aspects, including resource management, performance enhancement, cost reduction, security, and operational efficiency.StackZone employs a direct sales model.Key customers and partnershipsStackZone’s customer base includes enterprises in various industries. Among its customers are The Weir Group, Sigma Móvil, Vitaccess, Triario, and Keroppa.

StackZone

mist.io provides an open-source multi-cloud management platform aimed at optimizing costs and streamlining operations.mist.io’s unified dashboard and APIs provide real-time visibility into hybrid cloud environments to track, understand, and govern cloud spend and resource utilization. The platform also provides orchestration automation for repeatable deployments and the ability to create custom policies to control infrastructure access. Moreover, the platform eliminates the need for migration by allowing users to control legacy bare-metal servers from the same interface used for cloud infrastructure.The platform operates a pay-as-you-go and subscription-based sales model.Key customers and partnershipsmist.io is utilized globally in several industries. Some notable customers are SevOne, the European Parliament, the National Bank of Greece, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Windstream Enterprise.mist.io offers integrations with over 15 service providers and technologies. Some key technology integrators are AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and VMware.

Mist.io

Tools that improve performance per spend by offering visibility and insights as well as leveraging pricing models such as reserved and spot instances. These also provide financial guardrails to enforce budgetary limits and other cost-saving opportunity recommendations

Tools designed to streamline and simplify various tasks and processes related to cloud computing. These help organizations manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure, improve operational efficiency, and reduce manual intervention

Tools that provide comprehensive features and functionalities to safeguard cloud resources and maintain adherence to industry-specific regulations for data protection and overall security

All companies in this hub provide optimization services for cloud-based platforms

Provides support for governance & regulatory compliance and transparency & insights regarding cloud spend

A few companies use AI/ML algorithms for workload optimization and deployment automation

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