Enterprise IT Startup Buoyant Secures $10.5 Million

Buoyant just closed $10.5 million in Series A financing. Benchmark Capital, Data Collective, FUEL Capital, SV Angel, and Webb Investment Network participated in the funding.

Buoyant, founded by former Twitter infrastructure engineers William Morgan and Oliver Gould,  gives enterprises the tools to operate cloud native applications safely, reliably, and effectively. It builds practical tools to identify, mitigate and prevent production incidents in microservices and cloud native apps, without affecting the pace of product development. Buoyant has created Linkerd, an open source resilient service mesh for cloud-native applications that brings scalable, production-tested reliability to cloud native applications.