Northflank, a London-based platform, has secured $22.3 million in funding to simplify cloud infrastructure for developers. The investment aims to alleviate the challenges developers face when navigating complex cloud infrastructure, allowing them to focus more on coding.
Northflank's platform simplifies the deployment of applications, databases, and automated jobs across major cloud providers. It has developed an effective abstraction over Kubernetes, enabling developers to utilize a real-time dashboard and user-friendly templates. This approach has resulted in impressive results, with developers able to deploy their first container to production in under five minutes.
Northflank currently manages over 10 billion public egress requests each month and orchestrates more than 1.3 million container deployments monthly. The founders of Northflank, Will Stewart and Frederik Brix, began their journey while playing online games and realized that the automation techniques used in deploying game servers could be applied to a broader range of workloads.
Northflank caters to enterprise customers who deploy up to 1,000 microservices within a single project. The platform offers a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) experience while granting platform engineers full control over the underlying infrastructure. Northflank adopts a consumption-based pricing model, reducing costs and providing flexibility for companies. It also ensures data privacy and regulatory compliance by allowing customer data to remain within their chosen cloud environments.
With the recent funding, Northflank plans to broaden its support for additional cloud providers, expand its multi-tenant platform to new regions, and enhance its enterprise support coverage. The company aims to become the default solution for engineering teams in deploying and operating software, simplifying the deployment process and making cloud infrastructure more accessible and manageable for all.