YC DATA · 6,287 COMPANIES · OCTOBER 2, 2026
FORMATION · FIRST SURFACED SUMMER 2023

Cloud Deployment Platform

Return to Signal
ACCELERATED · SUMMER 202383% confidenceObserved October 2, 2026Source: Description cluster · description-only
The count
1.78×

7/1157 → 12/1117; +0.47 percentage points of formation share.

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The companies behind the signal — 12
Summer 2023
Zelos Cloud

The Data Platform for Mission‑Critical Systems. Zelos Cloud is the data platform for mission-critical systems that enables teams to observe, control, and test systems from prototype to production. The platform connects across entire ecosystems, capturing data from many protocols, enabling remote command execution, and facilitating team collaboration through shared workspaces and real-time annotations. By integrating data collection, processing, and visualization into one seamless pipeline, Zelos Cloud eliminates complexity and breaks down silos between engineering, operations, and quality teams.

Summer 2023
Twenty

Open Source CRM. Building a modern alternative to Salesforce: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty

Winter 2023
Skyhook

PaaS-like experience with the power of Kubernetes, on your cloud. We make running services on Kubernetes as easy as Heroku, but on your cloud and with all the flexibility and power of Kubernetes. Companies use Skyhook so that they don't have to hire dedicated infrastructure engineers. Although 50-70% of organizations have already adopted Kubernetes, most developers agree that it is too complex and difficult to manage. It is intended to be extremely flexible in order to solve pretty much everyone’s needs, but it can take a ton of work and many auxiliary tools to get there. As companies grow, they spend a lot on DevOps or Platform Engineers that try to reduce the burden on developers by gluing together all the 3p tools via custom internal tools. We are building an “internal developer platform” out of the box, with best practices and golden paths for building and operating services on Kuber

Winter 2023
Cakework

API that adds cloud hosting to any developer platform. We make it possible to build a serverless cloud platform that hosts custom user code with just APIs and no infrastructure team. For example, an open source framework can build a cloud offering that deploys their users code from Github or local dev environments in days instead of months.

Winter 2023
Reflex

The operating system for building mission-critical enterprise apps.. Reflex is the operating system for building mission-critical enterprise applications. Today’s enterprise stack is fragmented. Shipping an app requires stitching together multiple tools and coordinating across multiple roles. Reflex replaces that complexity with a single, unified platform to build, deploy, and manage production applications end-to-end. We empower teams to own the entire lifecycle of their apps — from idea to production — without needing specialized infrastructure, DevOps, or platform teams. We do this by providing solid, reusable abstractions at both the framework and infrastructure layers. Because we own the underlying open-source framework and the platform it runs on, we can manage the full lifecycle of the application seamlessly. With Reflex, teams securely connect to company data, use AI to build sta

Winter 2023
Omnistrate

Transform any software to multi-cloud SaaS in minutes not years. Omnistrate is a cloud platform to SaaS-ify your docker image in minutes instead of years. Let’s say you have an open-source software, and you want to monetize your invention by building a multi-cloud SaaS solution. You can either spend years doing it yourself or use Omnistrate to do it in no time. Get started today by simply importing your existing docker-compose.

Winter 2023
BuildJet

High-performance computing cloud. BuildJet makes CI faster by running its own cloud on top of Gaming CPUs Today, BuildJet offers a CI product that makes GitHub Actions 2x faster and cheaper, by plugging in BuildJet's Gaming CPU Cloud into GitHub Actions. Simply change 1 line, and enjoy the speed-up.

Summer 2022
Pump.co

The Costco for cloud is here 🔥🔥. Pump saves up to 60% off AWS for early stage startups, and for free (yes, that's right). Using group buying and AI, Pump automates cost savings that require no engineering effort. #GetPumped

Summer 2022
Sunpia

Deploy serverless without rewriting code. Sunpia lets developers easily experience the cost and speed benefits of serverless infrastructure, without having to rewrite their code. Developers annotate their code and Sunpia automatically designs a microservice version of it they can deploy on their own cloud.

Winter 2022
Massdriver

Deploy secure, scalable cloud infrastructure in minutes not days. Massdriver helps engineering and operations teams build secure, production-ready internal developer platforms in minutes. With over 50+ infrastructure components engineering teams can build golden paths quickly on Kubernetes, serverless, or VMs. Get the flexibility product engineers need, with the auditing and security operations teams’ demand. We handle all the boring parts of cloud operations like IAM, secrets, continuous deployment, alerting, and monitoring so your team can focus on the product. Massdriver supports anti-lockin, by running in your cloud, and open-sourcing all of our infrastructure components.

Inside Cloud Deployment Platform

Developer Tools

A primary internal company segment within Cloud Deployment Platform, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Developer Tools”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.

Other / unclassified

Measured-window members of Cloud Deployment Platform that could not be assigned to a narrower shared YC tag or industry without forcing a classification.

Outside corroboration — does anyone else see this?

No comparable outside activity is connected yet.

Similarly named categories — not necessarily the same thing

These share a word with “Cloud Deployment Platform” but are tracked as separate categories. The real overlap below is the actual share of Cloud Deployment Platform’s companies also found in that category — not a guess.

Citation

Cambrian Signal, “Cloud Deployment Platform,” publication yc-2026-10-02-semantic-v8, snapshot October 2, 2026.
cambrian.jafar.com/formation/cloud-deployment-platform

Cloud Deployment Platform · Cambrian Signal