New funding will fuel global growth, product development, and establish Akamas as a leader in application-aware cloud optimisation.
Today, Akamas, a pioneering company specialising in AI-driven cloud optimisation, announced that it had raised $10 million in its first institutional funding round.
The investment, led by one of Italy’s largest venture capital firms, United Ventures, will support Akamas’s expansion into North America, accelerate product development, and bolster its position as a leader in full-stack optimisation for cloud and Kubernetes environments. Akamas’s parent company Moviri group will maintain a strategic minority position while transitioning operational control.
The funding comes at a pivotal time for Akamas, which has already signed its first multi-million-dollar contract and gained traction with customers across North America. The company plans to establish its first US office in Boston and scale its team significantly in both engineering and go-to-market functions.
We are thrilled about today’s investment, and our entry into the US is a major milestone for Akamas. The United States is home to some of the world’s largest cloud-driven organisations, and we are excited to bring our unique application-aware optimisation technology to this dynamic market.
With its expertise in scaling SaaS and AI companies globally, United Ventures is the ideal partner as we expand our footprint and drive further innovation.
said Luca Forni, CEO and Co-founder of Akamas.
Akamas will also use the funding to grow from 10 to 35 employees in the first year, with a focus on engineering, sales, and marketing roles across Italy and the US, and to launch industry-leading new features. These will include Kubernetes Insight (now in beta) to simplify optimisation of Kubernetes environments, a SaaS version of the Akamas platform, and integrations with leading cloud providers and observability tools such as AWS, Dynatrace and Datadog; Grafana Labs and Google Cloud.
A Track Record of Innovation Akamas’s unique value proposition lies in its “application-aware” optimisation approach, which ensures that cost savings do not come at the expense of application performance or reliability and vice versa. The company’s “full-stack” approach allows clients to improve performance and reliability without increasing costs.
Akamas has built a reputation for delivering measurable results to companies whose businesses rely heavily on cloud applications. Its platform has been successfully applied across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters and thousands of cloud instances for customers spanning retail, financial services, travel, and telecommunications.
Notable references include Sisal, a leading European gaming company, and Sabre, a US-based travel technology giant. Akamas has also garnered endorsements from industry leaders, including thought leaders at Netflix and Dynatrace, and earned accolades such as the UniCredit StartLab Prize and the CIO Digital360 Award.
We are proud to lead this round for Akamas, who are at the forefront of application-aware optimisation technology,. Akamas’s innovative approach to simplifying cloud and Kubernetes optimisation, coupled with its impressive team and vision, positions it as a game-changer in the global tech landscape.
We’re excited to support their expansion into North America and their continued growth as they redefine how organisations optimise performance, reliability, and costs at scale.
said Fabio Pirovano, Partner at United Ventures.
Competing with the Status Quo Akamas operates where the primary competitor is often the inertia of manual, reactive optimisation efforts. Its platform stands out by addressing limitations across five categories of optimisation tools, including Kubernetes management, FinOps platforms, and native cloud provider tools.
Unlike competitors that focus solely on infrastructure or basic cost metrics, Akamas optimises the entire stack—integrating application performance and infrastructure insights to ensure reliability.
Cloud optimisation is no longer just about saving costs. It’s about enabling businesses to scale efficiently, deliver exceptional user experiences, and maintain reliability. At Akamas, we are redefining the possibilities for cloud and Kubernetes environments.
Stefano Doni, CTO and Co-founder of Akamas explained.
Akamas co-founders, Stefano Doni and Luca Forni
A spin-off of leading performance engineering firm Moviri, Akamas has already transformed how companies optimise cloud infrastructure and applications by delivering both cost efficiency and unparalleled reliability. Its proprietary technology—protected by five global patents—enables organisations to maximise the performance of cloud and Kubernetes environments by considering the interplay between application and infrastructure.
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