🚀 Thrilled to Announce: $24M Series A Funding Led by Khosla Ventures 🚀 with participation from existing investors Fusion Fund, Surface Ventures, Emergent Ventures, and Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Today marks a monumental milestone for Loft Labs as we secure $24 million in Series A funding. This investment underscores our rapid growth and the groundbreaking work we're doing with vCluster and DevPod. Our journey is just beginning, and this funding will fuel our mission to revolutionize platform engineering, making development workflows more efficient and cost-effective. A big thank you to our investors, customers, and the relentless Loft team. The future is bright, and we are just getting started. Read the blog by Loft CEO Lukas Gentele >> https://lnkd.in/gPB5Jkiv #LoftLabs #Growth #Innovation #SeriesAFunding #PlatformEngineering #vCluster #DevPod #gpu #gpus #ai #genai
Loft Labs
Software Development
San Francisco, California 9,051 followers
Open-source tools for simplifying Kubernetes, reducing costs, and scaling with ease.
About us
At Loft Labs, we build the tools that make Kubernetes simpler, more efficient, and cost-effective. Our open-source projects - vCluster, DevPod, and JSPolicy - enable platform engineers to streamline multi-tenancy, reduce cloud costs, and scale their Kubernetes environments with ease. With over 100 enterprises using our solutions, we’re focused on helping teams move faster, save money, and maintain stability in their platform stacks. Whether you’re managing multi-tenant clusters or optimizing resource usage, Loft Labs provides the building blocks to make it happen.
- Website
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https://loft.sh
External link for Loft Labs
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Specialties
- Kubernetes, vCluster, DevPod, JsPolicy, Cloud-Native Technologies, EKS, AKS, GKE, k3s, Multi-tenancy, Platform Engineering, Cloud Cost, virtual clusters, FinOps, and Developer Self-Service
Locations
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Primary
415 Mission St
Fl. 37
San Francisco, California 94105, US
Employees at Loft Labs
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Paul Hinz
Loft Labs, Red Hat, Entando, Liferay, Sun Microsystems, USAF
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Ilan Krayn
Team builder and leader, experienced in Customer Success engineering, Cloud Security, and DevOps
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Lindsey Bettiga
General Counsel at Loft Labs
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Eric Jordan
Designer. I help brands, businesses and creators present and publish their products and web pages with confidence and clarity.
Updates
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Cursor has taken the dev community by storm. Over the past couple of months, it has become one of developers' favourite tools! Guess what? DevPod's latest release, v5.20, comes with Cursor's experimental integration enabled by default. Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/gApVu6xu
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If you are attending #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon NA in Salt Lake City next month, don’t miss the chance to pick up a free signed copy of "Implementing GitOps with Kubernetes" (by Pietro Libro, PhD and Artem Lajko ☁️ ⎈)! Come by vCluster by Loft booth A6 for your copy—looking forward to meeting you there! #kubernetes #platformengineering #gitops
Platform Engineer | Expert in GitOps and Kubernetes Scalability | Published Author | Co-Founder@connectii.io
👋 Who else is heading to KubeCon in Salt Lake City? If you're attending, let’s connect in person! I’d love to grab a coffee with you, dive into discussions on Kubernetes, GitOps, and so on...but more importantly, hear about you and your latest projects! Plus, don’t miss the chance to pick up a free signed copy of "Implementing GitOps with Kubernetes" (by Pietro Libro, PhD and me)! Come by the Loft Labs booth A6 for your copy—looking forward to meeting you there! See you in Salt Lake City! P.S. if you have planned some outside events, outdoor activities...let me know! I would love to join you! 🎉
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Cursor has taken the dev community by storm. Over the past couple of months, it has become one of developers' favourite tools! Guess what? DevPod's latest release, v5.20, comes with Cursor's experimental integration enabled by default. Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/gAUjtSGa
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If you are attending #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon in Salt Lake City stop by vCluster by Loft booth #A6 to grab a free copy of Kubernete - An Enterprise Guide by Marc Boorshtein and Scott Surovich Book signing will be on November 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM MST #Kubernetes #platformengineering
Going to KubeCon? Want a free copy of Kubernetes: An Enterprise Guide 3rd Ed? Come by Loft Lab's booth on the 13th where I'll be signing 25 copies!
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vCluster lets you set up virtual clusters for each phase of your development pipeline, helping you maintain consistent configurations across the board. Learn more on how you can overcome the top 5 Kubernetes Challenges with vCluster here in this latest post by our very own Piotr 🤩 https://lnkd.in/giSwhPGq
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Discover how vCluster enables cost savings through resource sharing in a virtual Kubernetes cluster. Learn to visualize savings using OpenCost in this latest blog: https://lnkd.in/gCnd78nM
Visualizing vCluster Cost Savings With OpenCost
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Join Saiyam Pathak as he deploys vCluster onto a Kubernetes cluster with Sqlite as a backend and then shows how to use the latest vCluster PRO feature to create a virtual cluster with embedded ETCD as the backend in this quick video! https://lnkd.in/gsmHhj7N
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Learn about setting up the Sigstore Policy Controller in Kubernetes to enforce image security policies, ensuring only trusted images run, particularly in multi-tenant environments in this tutorial https://lnkd.in/gJVZ9M2u
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Discover how Piotr's daily workflow improved after transitioning to containerized development environments in this post detailing all the benefits and what exactly is a containerized dev environment https://lnkd.in/g8GEYrEH
I Transitioned to Containerized Development Environments | by Piotr | Sep, 2024 | ITNEXT
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