Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.  The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data.  Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companies since 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

Bain Capital Ventures

The General Partnership is a venture capital firm that works with startups in their early stages of formation and growth. It invests significant capital to amplify its support and increase its stake in the success of the companies with which it collaborates. It partners to develop, implement, and scale Go-To-Market strategies to accelerate company growth.

The General Partnership

Momento

Momento was founded with the vision to enable developers to write reliable and powerful apps faster than ever thought possible. Momento removes the need to manage caches by providing a serverless caching solution that works at any scale, so developers can concentrate on doing what they love: developing better products and services, faster. Momento is a team of distributed systems and database experts. The company is headquartered out of Seattle, Washington with a team that is distributed worldwide. Visit gomomento.com for more information—or see just how fast and simple it is to get going with Momento by starting for free at start.gomomento.com.

Momento offers a serverless cache solution–an element to accelerate response times by delivering commonly used data faster. By making the cache elastic, Memento increases the speed of several factors such as databases, serverless apps, object storage, and machine learning. It does so by managing hot-keys, maintaining high cache hit rates, keeping tail latencies low, and offering scalable capacity.&nbsp;

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

Serverless Computing

Momento offers a serverless cache solution–an element to accelerate response times by delivering commonly used data faster. By making the cache elastic, Memento increases the speed of several factors such as databases, serverless apps, object storage, and machine learning. It does so by managing hot-keys, maintaining high cache hit rates, keeping tail latencies low, and offering scalable capacity.&nbsp;The company claims that developers can add a cache to their cloud stack (supports AWS and Google Cloud as of November 2022) through Momento, by using API calls, thereby minimizing the coding requirements.&nbsp;Memento follows a pay-per-use business model.Key customers and partnershipsMomento catered to several large customers as of July 2024, including CBS, NTT Docomo, Wyze Labs, Raider.IO, Paramount Pictures, and Taco Bell.

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.
 
 
 Funding and financials 
 
 
 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

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Momento, a provider of serverless caching solutions, has successfully raised 15 million USD in a Series A funding round. This round saw participation from Bain Capital Ventures leading the investment, The General Partnership, as well as angel investors Marianna Tessel, Neha Narkhede, Don MacAskill, and John Lilly.
The fundraise will be instrumental in fortifying enterprise sales, enhancing the platform's functionalities to support emerging AI workloads, and upgrading infrastructure capabilities to serve larger audiences with reliability.

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Momento

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