O’Melveny Advises Spectro Cloud on US$75 Million Series C Funding Round

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SILICON VALLEY—November 19, 2024—O’Melveny advised Spectro Cloud, a leader in modern multi-cluster Kubernetes management at scale across a variety of deployment environments, on its US$75 million Series C funding round.

Announced on November 19, the funding round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from existing Spectro Cloud investors.

The O’Melveny team advising Spectro Cloud was led by Silicon Valley partners Warren Lazarow and Brian Covotta, and included Ashwin Gokhale and Sean Kwak.

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Spectro Cloud issued the following announcement: 

Spectro Cloud Closes $75m Series C Led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives

Funds Will be Used to Fuel the Transformation of Kubernetes Management at Scale Across Data Centers, Cloud, and the Edge

Spectro Cloud has Grown Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by Triple Digits Year-over-Year for Three Consecutive Years

November 19, 2024 07:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectro Cloud, a leader in modern multi-cluster Kubernetes management at scale across a variety of deployment environments, including on-premises hardware, single and multi-cloud, and the edge, today announced it has completed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from existing Spectro Cloud investors. The investment comes at a turning point of complexity in the IT industry, with the evolution from legacy, virtual machine (VM)-based applications to a containerized, cloud native ecosystem, with artificial intelligence (AI) driving an explosion of use at the edge.

Leading organizations across industries (including technology, manufacturing, retail, oil & gas, healthcare, telecommunications, defense and intelligence agencies) are relying on Spectro Cloud’s Palette software platform to help accelerate their Kubernetes adoption. By helping companies improve operating efficiency and more effectively run mission-critical application workloads, Spectro Cloud has achieved three consecutive years of triple-digit ARR growth.
“What IT leaders need today is a modern approach to comprehensive, full lifecycle management for Kubernetes at scale, one that is optimized to support the unique needs of data centers, clouds, and the edge,” said Tenry Fu, CEO and co-founder of Spectro Cloud. “We founded Spectro Cloud five years ago aiming to make Kubernetes easy to manage and consume in any environment, and this investment from Goldman Sachs is validation of the tremendous opportunity we have ahead of us.”

“In the past five years, Spectro Cloud has established itself as a leader in helping organizations realize the true potential of Kubernetes and cloud native technologies, making it more accessible and manageable at scale, across any environment,” said Michael Reilly, an Investor at Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives who will be joining Spectro Cloud’s Board of Directors. “The incredible success Tenry and his team have achieved proves that enterprises are realizing the value. We are excited for the opportunity ahead in multi-cluster environments, especially bare metal deployments in data centers for VM and GPU management, and AI inference at the edge, which could drive tremendous growth.”

Spectro Cloud will use its Series C funding to accelerate product innovation, particularly in the uniquely complex area of edge computing, and to invest in continuing to offer award-winning customer experience and support, and scale new go-to-market partnerships and technology alliances.

To see Spectro Cloud’s Palette platform in action, book a demo at spectrocloud.com or visit booth #1396 at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, and booth #639 at Gartner IOCS in Las Vegas.
Read the announcement blog here.

About Spectro Cloud

Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Its Palette enterprise Kubernetes management platform gives Platform Engineering, IT Operations and DevOps teams effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle. With support for both VM and container workloads, Palette is a truly unified management platform across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments. IT Operations teams are empowered to support their developers with curated Kubernetes stacks and tools based on their specific needs, with granular governance and enterprise-grade security. Spectro Cloud is a Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN Tech Innovator, and a ‘leader’ and ‘outperformer’ in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

Co-founded in 2019 by CEO Tenry Fu, Vice President of Engineering Gautam Joshi and Chief Technology Officer Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud is backed by Alter Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Firebolt Ventures, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, NEC and Translink Orchestrating Future Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Stripes, T-Mobile Ventures, TSG and WestWave Capital.

For more information, visit https://www.spectrocloud.com or follow @spectrocloudinc and @spectrocloudgov on X.

About Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally, with over $500 billion in assets and more than 30 years of experience. The business invests in the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds and sustainability. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customized partnerships, and open-architecture programs. The business is driven by a focus on partnership and shared success with its clients, seeking to deliver long-term investment performance drawing on its global network and deep expertise across industries and markets. The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals. Goldman Sachs has over $3.1 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of September 30, 2024. Since 2003, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives has invested over $13 billion in companies led by visionary founders and CEOs. The team focuses on investments in growth stage and technology-driven companies spanning multiple industries, including enterprise technology, financial technology, consumer and healthcare.

Contacts

PR contacts:

Spectro Cloud: Ant Newman – ant@spectrocloud.com

Goldman Sachs: Victoria Zarella – victoria.zarella@gs.com