Peak is the early-stage VC fully backed by entrepreneurs. Based in Amsterdam, Berlin and Stockholm, Peak fiercely backs founders across Europe, particularly in the BeNeLux, DACH, and Nordics. Their EUR 66M fund is 100% financed and ran by experienced entrepreneurs - with the scars to prove it. Peak specializes in models, rather than specific industries or verticals. To date, they have more than a decade of experience in scaling marketplace, platform, and SaaS companies - both B2B and B2C - from Seed to Series A and beyond. Get in touch via http://peak.capital/contact

Peak

Tiny VC

First Momentum Ventures helps your startup to gain its first momentum by backing you with a first investment. They provide young ambitious startups with a first investment, world-class mentoring, and a strong network. They typically invest in B2B startups in the DACH region.

First Momentum Ventures

Enduring Ventures operates as a holding company inspired by Berkshire Hathaway. It buys great businesses and aims to hold them forever. It is looking for small and medium businesses with exceptionally big moats. The company utilizes open-book management and implement employee profit-sharing to enable the people doing the work to build wealth rather than merely act as employees

Enduring Ventures

Tilores

Tilores is a serverless, graph-like entity-resolution technology that was originally developed for a consumer credit bureau active in eCommerce risk and fraud prevention. The technology addresses several big challenges: how to connect, and deduplicate high-volume, high-velocity data from disparate sources to individual entities, in real-time, in a manner that still allows high speed search performance and alerting with low variable costs.

Tilo is a German company that offers a serverless data infrastructure tool named “TiloRes,” primarily for financial services firms to deduplicate and connect data from a number of disparate sources and formats. The tool also allows for data ingestion and real-time searches with reportedly unlimited serverless scaling.

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

Serverless Computing

Tilo

Tilo is a German company that offers a serverless data infrastructure tool named “TiloRes,” primarily for financial services firms to deduplicate and connect data from a number of disparate sources and formats. The tool also allows for data ingestion and real-time searches with reportedly unlimited serverless scaling.TiloRes has many applications including fraud detection and know-your-customer (KYC)/anti-money laundering checks. The company also planned to offer its solution for free for COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. Tilo currently charges a license fee based on the volume of data companies actually process through its TiloRes tool, which it claimed makes it more cost-effective than its server-based counterparts, as the cost scales with usage.Funding and financialsIn January 2022, Tilo <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8162?industryIds=25">raised EUR 1.2 million (USD 1.35 million) </a>in pre-seed funding.

SLAppForge offers support for companies developing serverless apps on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud through its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) “Sigma.” Sigma is the first completely browser-based IDE and offers a drag-and-drop framework for intuitive coding. The platform was also the first IDE to offer live debugging of Lambda functions, and also provides support for live debugging on NodeJS and Python functions. Sri Lanka-based SLAppForge incorporated its US entity and brought on CEO Wallace Wilhoite (former IT Manager at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in January 2020.

SLAppForge

Altostra offers a development platform that allows developers to create serverless apps with or without the use of coding, and deploy it through any cloud/serverless vendor. The company provides a visual workspace for app developers to make the process intuitive, and also offers a cross-platform command line tool.

Altostra

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 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.
 
 
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 The company raised USD 5 million in seed funding in July 2021, from Cisco, to invest in expanding its go-to-market strategy. Along with the funding, Triggermesh also noted that it would collaborate with Cisco to deliver improved enterprise automation solutions and cloud-native integrations, leveraging Cisco’s vast enterprise and cloud footprint. 
 
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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

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

Tilo

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