Akamas, a company specialising in artificial intelligence-based cloud optimisation, reports that it has raised USD 10 million in its first institutional investment round led by United Ventures. The deal will support Akamas’ expansion in the North American market, accelerate product development and strengthen full-stack optimisation for cloud and Kubernetes environments. Akamas’ holding company, the Moviri Group, will retain a strategic minority stake, relinquishing operational control.
The round comes at a strategic juncture for Akamas, which plans to establish its first US office in Boston and significantly strengthen its engineering and sales resources.
“We are excited about the investment announced today, and our entry into the US market represents a key step for Akamas,” said Luca Forni, CEO and co-founder of Akamas (pictured here with the team) in a statement. “The US is home to some of the world’s largest cloud-based organisations, and we are delighted to be able to offer our unique application optimisation technology to this dynamic market. United Ventures’ experience in scaling international software and artificial intelligence companies makes them the ideal partner for our expansion and continued development of innovative solutions.”
Akamas will also use the funds raised to expand the team, focusing on engineering, sales and marketing in Italy and the US, and to launch innovative new features. These include Kubernetes Insight, unveiled in beta in recent days, to simplify the optimisation of Kubernetes environments, a SaaS version of the platform, and integration with leading cloud providers and monitoring tools such as AWS, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana Labs and Google Cloud.
Akamas adopts the application-aware optimisation approach, which ensures that cost savings are not at the expense of application performance or reliability, and vice versa.
Akamas’ customers include Sisal, and Sabre, the US tourism technology giant.
“We are proud to lead this investment round in Akamas, a company at the forefront of developing application-aware optimisation technologies,” said Fabio Pirovano, partner at United Ventures. “Akamas’ innovative approach to simplifying cloud and Kubernetes optimisation, coupled with its extraordinary team and ambitious vision, makes it a game-changer in the global technology landscape. We look forward to supporting its expansion into North America and its continued growth to redefine the way companies optimise performance, reliability and cost at scale.”
Akamas operates in a market where the main obstacle is often resistance to change and the use of manual, reactive optimisation processes. Its platform differentiates itself by addressing the limitations of previous optimisation tools, including Kubernetes management, FinOps platforms and cloud provider native tools. Akamas optimises the entire stack, integrating application and infrastructure performance data to ensure reliability.
“Cloud optimisation is no longer just about cost savings,” says Stefano Doni, CTO and co-founder of Akamas, “It is about enabling businesses to scale efficiently, deliver the best user experience and maintain reliability. At Akamas, we are rewriting the potential for cloud and Kubernetes environments”.
Created as a spin-off from Moviri, a performance engineering company, Akamas aims to innovate the way companies optimise cloud infrastructure and applications, ensuring cost efficiency and reliability. Its proprietary technology, protected by five international patents, enables organisations to maximise the performance of cloud and Kubernetes environments by taking into account the interaction between applications and infrastructure.
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