Elotl: Commoditizing the Public Cloud
Unique insight is a great benefit of deep lived experience. As operators, it was clear to us that the insight Madhuri had from more than two decades of experience at companies like Oracle, VMware, and ClusterHQ — that cloud compute for enterprises should and will also be commoditized — rang true. Digging into infrastructure management with her in many ways was reminiscent of the work VMware had achieved in the late 2000s to virtualize on premise data centers. Madhuri saw a new vision for the public cloud and squinting was not necessary to see it.
Kubernetes has become the leading technology to orchestrate containers on the public cloud and yet, it has not become ubiquitous because of its operational complexity and security implications. The time and financial cost to enterprises has been monumental and Madhuri worked on these issues firsthand. That’s why she’s building Elotl, the first true Nodeless Kubernetes Platform to achieve the vision that the technology had first promised — a true cloud-agnostic platform that is both cost-effective and secure. In short, Madhuri recognized that like many once-novel notions, the future of cloud compute is to be commoditized so as to unlock energy for teams to focus on their core business.
As Madhuri went faster and deeper with customers like Robinhood and Symphony, more parallels from the early computing days arose such as the importance of being a product scheduler, the difficulty of building within cloud infrastructure, and the efficacy of high precision use cases that make unique offerings. The velocity Elotl encountered was instant — deployments increased 5x as well as adoption velocity for CICD workloads and customers began to experience 60-80% cost savings, better security, and simplified operations for Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
The incredible insight and speed with which Madhuri and the Elotl team operates excited us not only for the future of the public cloud, but also for the journey ahead as capital partners alongside our good friends Vertex Ventures, Essence Venture Capital, HearstLab, Telescopic, Dan Scheinman, and CEO of LaunchDarkly, Edith Harbaugh in a $5M seed financing round. To learn more about Elotl, please visit elotl.co
