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What does Tigera do?
Tigera, is the platform which is solving the security and networking problems inherent in deplying and enforcing policy in large public, private, and hybrid enterprise clouds. The company’s founders combine security experience and extensive networking with a track record of engagement with the cloud native and user communities.
How much Tigera was funded?
The company raised $13M in Series A on June 16, 2016 from Wing Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Wing.
What is next for Tigera?
The company has raised the latest Series A funding for furthering its aim of securing cloud native apps. Aaron Jacobson, Ron Bernal and Peter Wagner has joined the company’s board of directors. The latest funding will help the company in expanding its engineering capabilities and for continuing fostering its rapidly developing community momentum around 3 key open source projects: Canal, Calico and Flannel. Calico became the leading networking solution driven by policy for cloud environments including Kubernetes, Docker, Tectonic, DC/OS, Apache Mesos and OpenStack. Canal is a joint initiative between CoreOS and Tigera. It integrates the company’s advanced policy capabilities with the wide range of cloud networking options offered by the Flanned networking solution. The company is in a very early stage of huge shift in how companies develop and deploy apps, needing a new gen of security infrastructure and network virtualization.
More about Tigera
Tigera was founded in 2016. It has its headquarters in San Francisco, California. The company is the leading provider of secure, integrated, policy-driven cloud native networking solutions for enterprises looking for secure application and workload delivery across public, private and hybrid clouds. The company’s solutions integrate with all the big cloud native environments including Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, DC/OS, Tectonic, Apache Mesos, OpenStack and , Apache Brooklyn. The company is funded by leading venture capital investors.
