Afore Capital backs product-centric founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively. The investment team brings 16 years of founding product experience (Android and Twitter) and 7 years of institutional investing experience (Founder Collective and Foundation Capital). Their sweet spot is the ~$1M pre-seed round, where they can lead the round as an institutional investor alongside high value angels.

Afore Capital

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Kleiner Perkins

Banana Capital is an early stage investment firm

Banana Capital

Notable Capital is named for the founders we invest with, the ideas they pursue, the causes they champion, and the remarkable companies they build. Notable is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on early-to-growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities. Notable portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Block, Brightwheel, Drata, Handshake, HashiCorp, Ibotta, Orca Security, Quince, Slack, Slice, StockX, Stori, Vercel, Zendesk, and more.

Notable Capital

Comma Capital operates as an early stage venture capital firm.

Comma Capital

Inngest

Inngest is the developer platform for easily building reliable workflows with zero infrastructure.

Inngest offers a platform that enables developers to write, test, and deploy serverless workflows via Typescript without requiring any configuration. Users can define a function for any event and have Inngest automatically call this function and handle background tasks across existing TypeScript or JavaScript codebases.

The innovative cost dynamics of serverless computing allow more customers onto the cloud without breaking the bank.

Serverless Computing

Inngest raises $6.1M as it expands its workflow engine

Inngest offers a platform that enables developers to write, test, and deploy serverless workflows via Typescript without requiring any configuration. Users can define a function for any event and have Inngest automatically call this function and handle background tasks across existing TypeScript or JavaScript codebases.Inngest’s development server offers a complete local development experience that includes visual feedback and debugging tools that run on a user’s own machine. Additionally, the platform’s software development kit (SDK) offers coding templates for specific background jobs and workflows, and it supports the frameworks Next.js, Express.js, RedwoodJS, and Remix, among many others.Key customers and partnershipsAs of July 2023, the platform was used by teams from a number of major enterprises including Tripadvisor, Snaplet, Tono, and Yoke.

Triggermesh’s platform allows users to create serverless apps that integrate multiple cloud, data center, and on-premise software and environments, on top of Kubernetes. Through these integrations, the platform aims to break “silos” between enterprise customers and their software development and IT operations (DevOps) teams. The cloud and infrastructure integration development speed is reportedly enhanced by reusing connectors and customizable templates.In March 2022, the platform announced broad support for KNative (an open-source platform to build and deploy serverless workloads) which includes any conformant Knative deployment, along with the provision of Knative distribution. TriggerMesh also announced broad support for creating event-driven architecture that runs on Kubernetes in Google Cloud, to enable users to create integrations to sync data or drive event-driven workloads. Triggermesh went on to launch a service to enable enterprises using Kubeless migrate to Knative in May 2022.

Triggermesh

Iron.io offers multiple tools to assist development operations (DevOps) to focus on core tasks, without managing infrastructure. The company entered the serverless computing market in 2016, with the launch of IronFunctions, effectively an open-source platform that can be used by developers and uses containers as the base. It allows users to launch serverless applications and functions on private and public clouds, on-premise servers, and hybrid environments. IronFunctions can be written in a variety of programming languages including Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, Node.js, Go, and .NET. However, the company currently only provides helper libraries and integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda.The company has expanded its operations since 2017 by adding an office in Tokyo, expanding its engineering and customer success teams, and continuing to improve the company’s products (bug fixes, improvements to internal tooling, and adding concurrency graphs, etc.). Iron.io looks to continue ramping up the development of its products by improving performance and reliability and developing a new user interface.Iron.io also continues to invest in new cutting-edge technologies such as “Computerless,” which eliminates the physical machine altogether and allows for it to be fully encapsulated in fiber optic cable.Key customers and partnershipsIts key customers include Google, Harry’s, Philips, Whole Foods, Veritone, and Counsyl.

Iron.io

Elotl offers the “Elotl Milpa” serverless platform to deploy Kubernetes (container orchestration system) apps on the cloud (mainly AWS, Google Cloud, Azure cloud, and Oracle cloud). It allows users to run their Kubernetes workloads in a cost effective manner (around 60%-80% cost savings relative to traditional offerings), avoiding vendor lock-in, Its offering also includes multi-tenancy security.Key customers and partnershipsAs of January 2022, its customers included Robinhood, Ronin, and Symphony, among others.In the year leading to November 2021, deployments through Elotl expanded 5x YoY, and the company became a founding member of the “Mobile Native Foundation” (a space for developers to collaborate on open source projects and discuss topics).

Elotl

ServerlessOps offers DevOps transformation advisory services, focusing on Amazon Web Services (AWS) serverless technology. The firm covers both technical training as well as implementation engineering. ServerlessOps claims it focuses on promoting AWS usage, as it believes AWS Lambda has the best combination of runtime and range of cloud services.

ServerlessOps

Sparta is an open-source framework for building and deploying Go microservices on AWS Lambda-powered microservices. It allows developers to define their application logic, AWS infrastructure, operational metrics, alert conditions, and security policies using Go types within a monorepo. Sparta transforms a Go application into a self-deploying AWS Lambda service, automatically provisioning the required infrastructure through CloudFormation.It integrates with various AWS services, including DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, SNS, SES, CloudMap, CloudWatch Events, CloudWatch Logs, and Step Functions. It also allows provisioning custom AWS resources and defining IAM roles with limited privileges to minimize the service's attack surface. Sparta emphasizes security and operational best practices as first-class goals.One of Sparta's key features is its ability to discover dynamically created AWS resources at runtime, eliminating the need for hard-coded ARNs in the codebase. This promotes an immutable infrastructure approach. The framework aims to discourage the deployment of monolithic applications as Lambda functions, instead favoring a microservices architecture.

Sparta

This includes all serverless software which does not fall into the other categories but are related to the serverless market (e.g serverless based database providers).

Software and services that monitor, optimize, and enable integrations to improve performance.

Businesses and organizations helping programmers transition to serverless platforms by reducing client dependency on vendor-specific offerings.

Businesses that fill in knowledge gaps between clients and serverless vendors for developing and running complex apps and programs.

Vendor platforms such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions used by clients to run their program. Effectively the infrastructure for serverless computing.

Serverless database providers offer infrastructure for running Gen AI models

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 Inngest, a serverless workflows platform, raised USD 6.1 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and included participation from GGV, Afore Capital, and Guillermo Rauch. Plans for the secured funds include team expansion and service reliability enhancements.&nbsp;
 The platform also unveiled new features. These encompass a tool for bulk re-running of failed jobs, new observability tools, and expanded language support with seamless transition between Python and Go SDKs.
 
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