Portainer.io, creator of Portainer CE, on Wednesday announced a $6 million Series A round led that will fund Portainer.io’s worldwide user expansion and product development, as Portainer.io charts the course for the future of container management.
Portainer.io said it will also continue to scale and develop its enterprise offering, Portainer Business, which launched in December 2020.
Launched in 2017 as an open source tool for managing containers in the Docker Swarm environment, Portainer.io’s open source Community Edition has grown to become a popular universal container management tool with a powerful Kubernetes GUI, in addition to supporting Docker, Docker Swarm, and Azure ACI, while Portainer Business offers enterprise-level security and control for deploying containers in business-critical environments.
Portainer.io’s focus on containers without the frustration has driven its explosive expansion: since January 2018, Portainer’s community now spans 190 countries, 4.8 million total users, and 500,000 regular monthly users, achieving 50% year-on-year growth. Portainer.io’s team of advisors includes developer advocate Kelsey Hightower and Bryan Rodriguez, a leading specialist for orchestration at the edge, boosting their focus on Portainer’s Edge Compute features.
Neil Cresswell, Co-Founder and CEO of Portainer.io
This investment lets us double down on pivoting Portainer from a simple management dashboard, into a fully-featured, container-native application deployment and management tool. We started by adding support for Azure ACI, then added Kubernetes, and now in 2021 we plan to add support for an ever increasing number of CaaS platforms, such as AWS Fargate, Google Cloud-Run, etc.
