Banzai Cloud

Invested

2018

Founders

Miklós Csendes, János Mátyás

Investors

Banzai Cloud

Invested

2018

Founders

Miklós Csendes, János Mátyás

Investors

Banzai Cloud was a cloud-native software company developing a suite of open-source tools that reduced friction in the development, deployment, monitoring, and management of applications hosted in Kubernetes environments. Backed by Portfolion in 2018 and through follow-on investments thereafter, the company grew into a globally recognized innovation hub, as reflected by its acquisition by a major US technology player in 2021. Beyond the successful exit, the strength of the team was further demonstrated by the fact that multiple members later went on to found new technology-focused startups.

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