Nirmata, a unified management platform for Kubernetes clusters and workloads based in San Jose and Bengaluru, has raised US$ 4 million in a Pre-series A funding round on August 11 2021. Led by Z5 Capital, the financing round also saw the participation of Uncorrelated Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Samsung Next, and angel investors BV Jagadeesh and Saqib Syed.
Fund Utilisation
The startup will use this new capital to scale its product and operations to support the Kyverno community. It also intends to establish an engineering unit in India and develop its sales and marketing to stimulate its enactment.
What the CEO has to say
CEO, Nirmata, Jim Bugwadia, said, “Kubernetes gives a lot of flexibility in the way workloads are deployed. Yet developers may not know 80% of what needs to be configured, nor should they. Kyverno gives users the ability to focus on what matters — their workloads and applications — by aiding the adoption of Kubernetes policies rather than requiring users to learn and adopt new ones.”
He added, “We have also seen very active engagement from developers in India in the Kyverno community validating our decision to expand our operations in India.”
What the Investors have to say
Founding Partner, Z5 Capital, Arun Ramamoorthy, said, “As enterprises adopt cloud applications and Kubernetes, applying and managing security policies is becoming increasingly challenging. With Kyverno and Policy Manager for Kyverno (PMK), Nirmata offers a simple and elegant Kubernetes Native Policy management approach to secure cloud applications. We are excited to support Nirmata in its mission to help customers solve their Kubernetes governance, compliance, and automation challenges.”
General Partner at Uncorrelated Ventures, Salil Deshpande, says, “When certain infrastructure becomes pervasive and dominant like Kubernetes has, critical services need to be native, open-source, and standards-based. Policy management is one such critical service, and Kyverno is a beautiful open-source CNCF-endorsed native solution that allows policies to be managed as Kubernetes resources.”
Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Yashwanth Hemaraj, said, “Nirmata is well-positioned to emerge as the go-to provider for security, automation and operations of Kubernetes workloads and clusters, facilitating application deployments and management for enterprise technology companies around the world. This presents a natural fit with BGV’s Enterprise 4.0 investment thesis, and the Nirmata Policy Manager for Kyverno has gained remarkable traction in recent months. We’re bullish on this space and very excited at Nirmata’s prospects for accelerated growth in the year’s ahead.”
About Nirmata
Established in 2013 by Damien Toledo, Jim Bugwadia and Ritesh Patel, Nirmata is a unified management plan for Kubernetes clusters and workloads that eliminates Day 2 Kubernetes challenges without lock-in or irrelevant abstractions. It renders an extensive policy-based automation for deploying, managing, and optimising Kubernetes applications across clouds via easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces. Some of its notable client-base include Novartis, The New York Times, Duke Energy, TriNet and Grofers. It is also used by open source projects like Flux and KubeArmor, to name a few. To know more, check out, https://nirmata.com/.
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