June 2022 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Portainer.io Closes US$6.2 Million Funding Round Portainer.io today announced it has closed a US$6.2 million funding round. The round, which is an extension of its Series A that closed in May 2021, is led by Movac and backed by all the Series A investors (Bright Pixel Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackNova, AltVentures). It also adds US investor Shasta Ventures and New Zealand Growth Capital Partners to the roster as interest in the company grows. Portainer launched in 2017 as an open source product to simplify the management of Docker and Swarm environments. In August 2020, it added support for enterprise Kubernetes, which is becoming the de facto industry standard for orchestrating containerized environments. By adding support for both Kubernetes and HashiCorp’s Nomad, Portainer has become the only universal container management system that works from the data centre to the edge and has been recognized by CRN.com...
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