Ukrainian-American startup Stackbooster, specializing in optimizing cloud infrastructure and applications, announced the official launch of an AI-based platform for managing Kubernetes. The company, a YEP accelerator alumnus, also raised $100,000 in pre-seed from an angel investor and opened a seed round of $2 million to scale development, marketing, and attract new customers.
The $100K pre-seed from an angel allowed the team to achieve key milestones in development. The $2M seed round is planned to be used for:
- product improvement;
- entry into new markets;
- team expansion (ML engineers, Go developers, marketing).
Stackbooster solves one of the most pressing problems of modern tech companies — inefficient use of cloud resources. Their AI platform allows companies to reduce cloud costs by up to 80%, automating both vertical scaling within applications and horizontal scaling between cluster nodes. Under the hood is their own ML orchestration that allocates resources in real time, preventing downtime or excessive capacity usage.
The initial angel investment of $100,000 was structured around a key development stage. Stackbooster conducted a series of pilots with a limited number of customers, which confirmed the effectiveness of the technology:
- -73% of cloud infrastructure costs;
- +20% application response speed;
- -30% load on DevOps teams due to automation.
The company already cooperates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is building alliances with several leading players in the cloud market (names are not disclosed at this time).
The company was founded by Alex Sharabudinov, a serial entrepreneur with 5 startups under his belt and experience scaling technical teams to 1500+ developers, and Volodymyr Lebedev, an AWS cloud infrastructure expert who built a consulting company with 50+ certified engineers.
“Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between cost and performance in cloud infrastructure. We built Stackbooster to solve the challenges we faced directly when managing enterprise Kubernetes environments. By intelligently automating vertical and horizontal scaling using ML, we deliver unprecedented cost savings without compromising speed and reliability. With the early results we’ve achieved and the support of our initial investor, we’re excited to scale up and bring these benefits to more companies”, — Alex Sharabudinov, CEO & Founder of Stackbooster.
The company is already open to inquiries from potential investors and users with high cloud workloads, including SaaS platforms, e-commerce, and gaming companies.
More details: stackbooster.io
