CloudQuery: Dev-First Cloud Asset Inventory, Congrats on the $15M Series A
Boldstart is a day one partner for technical founders building mission critical products for enterprises. We love when founders are building to solve their pain points and are their own first customer. Developer productivity and efficiency is a core theme that we will never stop believing in as shown by the companies that we have been fortunate to partner with like Snyk, Jit, AtomicJar, SlimAI and many more unannounced. Today, we’re excited to congratulate the CloudQuery team which embodies all of the above on their $15M Series A led by Tiger Global. Boldstart led the $3.5M Seed announced just six months ago alongside our friends at Haystack, Mango Capital, and Work-Bench.
Imagine if you opened up your phone or laptop and were not able to click on the Applications Launcher to see all the different apps installed on your laptop. How would you know what existed on your laptop, manage what you wanted to keep, what security access those apps had to different systems, and how those apps interact with each other! That’s the current state of the world for developers today.
As the number of services that cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) offer explodes, it is becoming increasingly harder for developers to understand, monitor, and visualize what is in their environment and how these tools are being used. The current solutions used to address these problems are closed-source, proprietary solutions that only work with certain clouds or for siloed use cases. Besides expensive cost and steep learning curves, current legacy products further create issues such as lack of data interoperability, limited API coverage, solutions sprawl, and proprietary query languages.
Cloud sprawl is only increasing as customers adopt best of breed solutions that all interact together. Getting a handle on this sprawl, securing it and managing it will continue to be a challenge without the right tooling in the hands of developers. Just look at the image below as a small example!
Born from the pain he experienced as a developer, Yevgeny Pats launched CloudQuery as an open source product in early 2021 to solve this problem. CloudQuery is rebuilding all of the proprietary solutions and enabling new use cases as data apps on top of CloudQuery’s open-source ELT data integration platform. This gives Security, DevOps, and SRE teams unprecedented flexibility to solve any use-case with their current data stack starting from their existing data warehouse/lake to their business intelligence products for monitoring and visualization. CloudQuery meets developers in their existing workflows, requiring no new languages or data stores to be learned, driving value by simply writing SQL queries. Recently, CloudQuery released their Policy Hub which supports more than 500 open source policies with pre-built queries/templates to help developers solve use cases even faster.
Simply put, CloudQuery is shifting left, into the hands of developers, the ability to manage cloud security, cost, and infrastructure by using their existing workflows and tooling.
More about the round can be found on Techcrunch.
Here’s more about CloudQuery in Yevgeny’s own words.