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Buoyant, Inc

http://www.buoyant.io/

Last activity: 15.01.2026

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Founded by infrastructure engineers William Morgan and Oliver Gould, Buoyant gives developers, operators, and enterprises open source tools to operate their Kubernetes and cloud native applications safely and reliably.

Buoyant is the creator of Linkerd (https://linkerd.io), the open source service mesh. Created in 2016, Linkerd powers production infrastructure at companies around the globe, including Salesforce, Credit Karma, Expedia, BigCommerce, and Paypal.

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Location: United States, California, San Francisco

Employees: 11-50

Total raised: $20.5M

Founded date: 2015

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-	GV	gv.com

Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
14.03.2019	-	$10M	-
11.07.2017	Series A	$10.5M	-

Mentions in press and media 27

Date	Title	Description
15.01.2026	IntelliGRC Accelerates FedRAMP Compliance and Achieves 4x Revenue Growth with Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd	Lean engineering team leverages FIPS-validated from Linkerd to unlock federal market opportunities and automate Kubernetes security SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd and the pioneer of the se...
12.01.2026	Buoyant and TestifySec Partner to Accelerate FedRAMP Authorization for Kubernetes Environments	Joint solution combines FIPS-validated service mesh with AI-powered compliance automation, reducing FedRAMP timelines from months to weeks SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd and leader in serv...
06.11.2025	Announcing MCP Support for Linkerd to Accelerate Enterprise AI Outcomes	Buoyant adds MCP support to Linkerd service mesh, giving enterprises a secure foundation to scale AI initiatives with confidence. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd, a leading open source and ...
14.11.2023	Kubernetes 1.28: sidecar-контейнеры возвращаются?	Если вы используете Kubernetes, то, наверное, уже слышали про sidecar-контейнеры. Эта концепция лежит в основе нескольких важных строительных блоков облачной экосистемы, прежде всего service mesh. При этом удивительно, что в самом Kubernete...
12.07.2023	Istio graduates	The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has graduated from its status as an incubating project and ...
11.04.2023	Buoyant Announces Linkerd 2.13 with New Reliability and Security Features for Kubernetes	"We are proud to announce that we’re launching free automated health monitoring, vulnerability alerts, and upgrade assistance for any Linkerd cluster in the world with Buoyant Cloud,” said William Morgan, Buoyant CEO SAN FRANCISCO (PRW...
25.01.2023	Inaugural Linkerd Day Launches at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe	“Linkerd's community of enthusiastic adopters and contributors makes it very clear just how fast the project is growing. We're incredibly excited to launch Linkerd Day to unite this special community," said William Morgan, Buoyant CEO ...
23.12.2022	Service mesh and the CISO [Q&A]	The number of use cases for Kubernetes is expanding as an increasing number of enterprises across a wide array of industries are adopting it as their platform of choice. However, this also expands the enterprise attack surface and business ...
05.12.2022	Обзор платформ service mesh	Все мы любим микросервисы, но надо признать, что их довольно сложно планировать, проектировать, разрабатывать, развёртывать и администрировать. Кроме того, нам нужно защищать трафик между сервисами и реализовывать распределённую трассировку...
10.10.2022	Report: Security remains key driver of service mesh adoption	Learn how your company can create applications to automate tasks and generate further efficiencies through low-code/no-code tools on November 9 at the virtual Low-Code/No-Code Summit. Register here. Buoyant’s recent State of Service Mesh re...
09.12.2021	The Tech Trailblazers Awards announces 2021 winners	Global awards platform for enterprise tech startups reveals 10th edition trailblazers London, UK – December 9th, 2021 – The Tech Trailblazers Awards announced the 2021 Tech Trailblazers at its inaugural virtual awards ceremony last night. M...
01.10.2021	Buoyant Introduces Secure, Zero Trust Network Policies for Kubernetes in Linkerd 2.11 and Buoyant Cloud	Buoyant, the creators of the world’s lightest and fastest service mesh, Linkerd, unveiled new security features in Linkerd and in Buoyant Cloud, its SaaS platform for running Linkerd in mission-critical environments. These features include ...
30.06.2021	Buoyant Introduces Buoyant Cloud: The Best Way to Run Linkerd in Mission-critical Environments
30.06.2021	Buoyant announces new cloud service for Linkerd service mesh users Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes Ama...	Linkerd service mesh creator Buoyant Inc. is looking to make some money with the public beta launch of its Buoyant Cloud service today. Buoyant is trying to commercialize the open-source Linkerd service mesh platform, which was created in 2...
17.06.2021	Why service mesh adopters are moving from Istio to Linkerd [Q&A]	Service mesh, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is an infrastructure layer that facilitates service-to-service communications between services or microservices via the use of a proxy. This offers a number of benefits including secure conne...
15.03.2019	Buoyant Raises $10M in Funding	Buoyant, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform to manage cloud apps with network meshes, raised $10M in funding. The round, which brought total funding raised to date to over $24m, was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with p...
15.03.2019	Top startup news for today, Friday, March 15, 2019	Good morning and happy Friday! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Friday, March 15. Uber plans to kick off IPO in April; shooting for a $120 billion target. Uber, the mother of all startup unicorns, is fina...
15.03.2019	Daily funding roundup - March 15th, 2019	Aeponyx raised $5.9M; UPshow raised $6M; ArangoDB raised $10M; Zeus Living raised $24M Aeponyx: Aeponyx is a fabless micro optical switch semiconductor chips designer and manufacturer. Aeponyx has raised C$7.9 million ($5.9 million) in Seri...
14.03.2019	Buoyant raises $10 million to manage cloud apps with network meshes	Buoyant, a San Francisco company developing an open source mesh for cloud applications, today announced that it has raised $10 million in a funding round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Bench...
14.03.2019	Buoyant raises $10 million to manage cloud apps with network meshes	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Buoyant, a San Francisco company developing an open source mesh for cloud applications, today announced that it has raised $10 million ...
06.05.2018	Kubernetes and microservices: A developers’ movement to make the web faster, stable, and more open	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The four years that William Morgan spent as an en...
06.05.2018	Kubernetes and microservices: A developers’ movement to make the web faster, stable, and more open	The four years that William Morgan spent as an engineer at Twitter battling the Fail Whale gave him a painful view into what happens when a company’s rickety web infrastructure gets spread too thin. But while Twitter’s instability was highl...
05.05.2018	Everything announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. More than 4,300 developers gathered in Copenhagen this past week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018, a conference focused on the ...
05.05.2018	Everything announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018	More than 4,300 developers gathered in Copenhagen this past week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018, a conference focused on the use of Kubernetes, microservices, containers, and other open sourced tools for building applications for ...
11.07.2017	Buoyant raises $10.5M Series A round as it looks to bring service meshes to the masses	Buoyant, a company founded by former Twitter infrastructure engineers William Morgan and Oliver Gould, today announced that it has raised a $10.5 million Series A round. This round was led by Benchmark Capital, with participation from #Ange...
11.07.2017	Buoyant Closes $10.5M in Series A Funding	Buoyant, the San Francisco, CA-based company behind the open source Linkerd project and creator of the new “service mesh” category of cloud infrastructure software, closed $10.5m in Series A funding. The round – which brings total funding t...
23.01.2017	Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds Linkerd as its fifth hosted project	The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source group that’s also the home of the popular Kubernetes container management system, today announced that it has added Linkerd as its fifth hosted project. Linkerd (pronounced linke...

Buoyant, Inc

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Funding Rounds 2

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