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ScaleOps raised 30M Series C at 00M valuation for autonomous K8s/AI GPU optimization; customers include Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, Salesforce (March 2026).
ScaleOps is an autonomous cloud resource optimization platform that uses AI to continuously right-size and orchestrate Kubernetes workloads and AI infrastructure without requiring manual configuration. Founded to address the chronic problem of cloud waste and performance degradation in dynamic containerized environments, ScaleOps deploys AI agents that observe workload behavior in real time, predict resource needs, and automatically adjust CPU, memory, and GPU allocations to maximize efficiency and reliability simultaneously. The company's core insight is that static resource configurations are inherently suboptimal in environments where workload patterns change constantly.\n\nScaleOps integrates with Kubernetes-native infrastructure and extends to AI/ML workloads running on GPU clusters, making it particularly valuable as enterprises scale their AI training and inference pipelines alongside traditional application workloads. The platform operates autonomously—reducing the toil on platform engineering teams who would otherwise spend significant time manually tuning resource requests and limits. Key differentiators include zero-disruption optimization, support for heterogeneous workloads, and AI-driven anomaly detection that prevents resource contention before it impacts performance.\n\nIn March 2026, ScaleOps raised a $130M Series C at an $800M valuation, with customers including Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, and Salesforce—a marquee roster that validates the platform's enterprise readiness. These customers represent organizations running complex, high-volume Kubernetes environments where even small efficiency gains translate to millions in cloud savings. ScaleOps sits at the intersection of FinOps and AI infrastructure optimization, a category that grows more strategically important as cloud AI spending accelerates.
Global payments infrastructure founded by Patrick and John Collison (YC W10); $1.4T payments volume in 2024; $18B+ revenue; $106.7B valuation as of Sept 2025; powers everything from startups to Fortune 500 companies with developer-first API design.
Stripe is a global payments infrastructure company founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, headquartered in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland. Stripe was born from the insight that accepting payments online was unnecessarily complex for developers, and that a well-designed API could unlock an entire generation of internet businesses. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2010 batch and grew to become the defining payments infrastructure layer of the modern internet economy, processing payments for businesses in virtually every industry worldwide.\n\nStripe's platform provides payment processing, fraud prevention via Stripe Radar, subscription billing, revenue recognition, banking-as-a-service through Stripe Treasury, corporate card issuance, identity verification, and tax compliance tools. It serves a spectrum from early-stage startups to publicly traded enterprises including Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Shopify. Stripe's developer-first philosophy — comprehensive documentation, SDKs in every major language, and a sandbox testing environment — created an ecosystem of millions of businesses built entirely on its infrastructure.\n\nStripe processed $1.4 trillion in total payment volume in 2024 and generates over $18 billion in annual revenue, with a valuation of $106.7 billion as of September 2025. The company has remained private longer than most comparably sized technology companies, giving it flexibility to invest in long-term product expansion. An April 2024 partnership with Apple Pay extended Stripe's reach further into mobile and in-store commerce. Stripe competes with Adyen, Braintree (PayPal), and Square, but its developer ecosystem depth and global infrastructure make it the default payments platform for a generation of technology companies.
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