Shadeform vs Kong
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SF YC S23 GPU cloud marketplace at $1M revenue Jun 2024 with 5 employees; $500K seed with unified API across 20+ GPU clouds (Lambda/Nebius/Crusoe) solving GPU shortage competing with CoreWeave for ML infrastructure access.
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Shadeform is a San Francisco-based GPU cloud marketplace — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $500,000 in seed funding from Charlotte Fund, Gravity Fund, Soma Capital, Y Combinator, and 7 additional investors — providing ML engineers, data scientists, and enterprises with a unified API and console for accessing and deploying GPU workloads across 20+ GPU cloud providers including Lambda Labs, Nebius, and Crusoe, achieving $1 million in annual revenue in June 2024 with a 5-person team. Founded in 2023 by Ed Goode and Ronald Ding, Shadeform addresses the GPU shortage and cloud fragmentation problem by aggregating GPU supply across multiple providers behind a single interface with smooth provisioning.
Open-source API gateway with enterprise platform; raised $170M+; built on NGINX handling authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, and security as a horizontal layer;
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Kong is an enterprise API management and service connectivity platform providing an API gateway, service mesh, and developer portal for organizations managing hundreds of microservices and APIs. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Kong open-sourced its core gateway technology (Kong Gateway, built on NGINX and Lua/Go) which has become one of the most widely deployed API gateways globally, creating a large community and commercial base. The company has raised over $170 million in total funding from investors including Index Ventures, GGV Capital, and others.
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