Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars' accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

Sussex Place Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investor, backing entrepreneurs building enterprise software and businesses with strong patent-protectable technology.  They are an independently managed venture capital management company sitting within the London Business School ecosystem and have been investing in early-stage technology companies for over a decade.

Sussex Place Ventures

Contour Venture Partners invests in companies focused on information technology, and the application of innovative software solutions into the enterprise SaaS, vertical B2B SaaS and financial services sectors. The principals at Contour have a long and successful track record, having directly supported over 85 companies through numerous market cycles. We take great pride in the strong bonds we form with management teams, as this is a crucial ingredient to achieving long term milestones while also making the process engaging and enjoyable. We recognize it is the details and pursuit of flawless execution combined with the right long-term vision that makes a company great. We have the experience, intuition, judgment and industry expertise to ensure that the foundation is in place for management to build a great business with a sustainable competitive advantage.

Contour Venture Partners

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco, and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.  Since 1996, Index has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to reshape the world. The companies they’ve started include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell.

Index Ventures

The Partnership Fund for New York City is the investment arm of the Partnership for New York City. It invests in NYC based ventures, both for-profit and non-profit, with an overall job creation priority.

Partnership Fund for New York City

Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The company offers current accounts, savings products, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide. The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Barclays Corporate Banking

Outrun Ventures Invests in early stage fintech, insurtech, regtech, legaltech, and proptech businesses in the UK and Europe. Outrun is the family office of Chris Adelsbach.

Outrun Ventures

Eldridge Industries invests across insurance, asset management, technology, mobility, sports & gaming, media & music, real estate, and consumer industries. The firm seeks to build and grow businesses led by proven management teams that have demonstrated leadership and experience to scale an enterprise.  Eldridge Industries is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with additional offices across the United States and London.

Eldridge Industries

Cutover

Cutover is a work orchestration and observability platform that provides full organizational visibility into dynamic flows of work. The Cutover platform allows teams to prepare for big events that could stress their infrastructure by staging rehearsals. Through the platform’s portal, top executives and managers can view visualizations of performance data and analyze any issues as they emerge. The platform also integrates with other SaaS platforms to include data from third-party tools and create clearer lines of communication. Craig Gregory, Ky Nichol, Marcus Wildsmith established the Shoreditch, Hackney-based company in 2013.

Cutover is a UK-based company providing a cloud-based platform for automating cloud migration, application release orchestration, and platform implementation.

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Cutover Secures Milestone $35m Series B Round as Enterprises Accelerate Digital Transformation, Orchestration and Automation to Adapt to Remote and Distributed Work With Confidence

Cutover is a UK-based company providing a cloud-based platform for automating cloud migration, application release orchestration, and platform implementation.Cutover leverages its automated runbook technology to unify operational teams, allowing enhanced visibility and control over plannings, testing, and execution phases of the enterprise’s IT and cyber recovery, cloud migration, and application and infrastructure deployment. With Cutover’s platform, enterprises have access to live visualizations, task tracking, analytics dashboards, node maps, and audit trails to ensure optimal operations, risk management, and compliance management.Further, Cutover’s platform can be integrated with a range of third-party solutions for scaling workloads and eliminating siloed operations to accelerate cloud migrations, mitigate risks, and automate releases.Cutover operates a direct sales model.Key customers and partnershipsCutover is used by several large enterprises. Some notable customers are Barclays, LTSE, and Cardano.Cutover’s technology partners are AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and ServiceNow.

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

Cutover

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