Rancher vs Hoppscotch
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SUSE-acquired ($600-700M, 2020) Kubernetes management platform with multi-cluster control, K3s edge runtime, and 37K users; competing with Red Hat OpenShift for enterprise container management.
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Rancher Labs is a Kubernetes management platform company acquired by SUSE in December 2020 for $600-700 million — creating within SUSE the world's largest enterprise Linux and Kubernetes organization exclusively dedicated to open-source and cloud-native infrastructure. Rancher's products include Rancher (a Kubernetes management platform for managing multiple clusters across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments), RKE (Rancher Kubernetes Engine, a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution), K3s (a lightweight Kubernetes distribution for edge and IoT), and Longhorn (cloud-native distributed storage). At the time of acquisition, Rancher had 37,000 active users and 100 million+ container image downloads.
Open-source browser-based API testing platform with 500K+ developers; $3M seed from OSS Capital competing with Postman as a lightweight, self-hostable alternative for REST and GraphQL testing.
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Hoppscotch is an open-source API development and testing platform — providing a web-based, lightweight alternative to Postman and Insomnia for building, testing, and documenting REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and gRPC APIs. Founded in 2019 by Liyas Thomas and Andrew Bastin in Kochi, India, Hoppscotch has grown to 500,000+ developers globally using the platform, raised $3 million in seed funding led by OSS Capital with participation from Automattic (WordPress.com parent), and offers a free open-source version alongside Hoppscotch Pro cloud with team collaboration and private workspaces.
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