Containous
CEO: Emile Vauge
Founded in 2016 and led by DevOps luminary Emile Vauge, Containous joined the market with a different approach to cloud-native networking. The San Francisco-based startup's multi-cloud network management platform gives businesses an easier approach to cloud application, microservices and API networking, according to the company.
Containous, whose tagline is "Makes Networking Boring," counts several Fortune 500 companies as customers, including Apple, Bose, eBay and Expedia. The channel-friendly company so far has raised $11 million in funding, according to Crunchbase.