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.

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

Serverless Computing

From NASA to AWS to Momento: Seattle startup’s journey to reinvent cloud caching

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.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.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.

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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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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