Software technology startup Nirmata works on faster innovation technologies for deployment and support the operational activities of the softwares. It provides platforms for enterprises with new age tech, cloud platforms and microservices softwares and apps to be deployed quickly and operate successfully utilizing DevOps features.
Nirmata has bagged $4 million in funds which counts to about Rs. 30 crores in a pre-series A round that was led by Z5 Capital, Z5 Capital. Uncorrelated Ventures, Samsung Next, Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) and angel investors Saqib Syed and BV Jagadeesh.
“With this new investment, the company will scale its product and operations to support the Kyverno community and establish an engineering team in India as well as grow its sales and marketing to accelerate its adoption,” Nirmata said in a statement.
Nirmata has launched a few products to start namely Nirmata Kubernetes Platform, Nirmata Policy Manager for Kubernetes, Kyverno OSS and Nirmata EKS Manager.
As of now, the startup has 10 employees in US and 7 in India. The team said that they are seeing a rise in number of users from India and are impressed by the talent of Indian developers and hence plan to expand in India to tap the growing market.
Since the beginning of 2021, the company claims that Kyverno’s adoption quickly soared to over six million downloads, with a growing number of users including Novartis, The New York Times, Duke Energy, TriNet, Grofers and others. It is also used by open source projects like Flux, KubeArmor etc.
“We are at the cutting edge of this innovation and are thrilled to be working with our partners at Z5 Capital, Benhamou Global Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Samsung Next and BV Jagadeesh, Saqib Syed to accelerate the execution of our vision,” Nirmata chief executive officer Jim Bugwadia said.