This year, Runa Capital selected the 50 fastest-growing open source startups in 2023. Sealos made its final appearance. There were a total of two Chinese companies on the list, and Sealos ranked second .
Runa Capital is a $270 million technology-focused venture capital firm whose founders and partners have founded or incubated companies with more than $10 billion in assets. Runa mainly invests in early-stage open source startups in the Series A stage , and will also make seed and Series B investments. Initial investments typically range from $1 million to $5 million, and are continued as the company expands.
Runa also launched the ROSS (Runa Open Source Startup) Index, which announces the top open source startups based on the annual growth rate (AGR) of the number of stars in the GitHub repository .
What are Sealos?
Sealos is a cloud operating system distribution with Kubernetes as the core . You can install any high-availability distributed application on Sealos with one click just like using a personal computer, with almost no professional delivery and operation and maintenance costs.
Stand-alone applications can access kernel functions through Linux API calls. Similarly, distributed applications can also call the kernel functions of the cloud operating system through Sealos APIs. The two methods of use are basically the same.
Our killer application based on the Sealos API: Sealos cloud development provides out-of-the-box cloud functions, cloud databases, object storage, online WebIDE and other capabilities, allowing users to write code like blogging and develop quickly, in milliseconds release.
With cloud development, we can directly call various distributed applications deployed in Sealos through the intranet in functions, and combine various application linkages to meet your various needs in one stop!
Take a unique approach, new ideas for Serverless
Throughout the industry, many projects focus on simplifying K8s cluster management, but Sealos has taken a different approach and built K8s into a popular cloud operating system kernel to provide a more user-friendly way for upper-layer applications . This new perspective can greatly expand the imagination of the K8s ecosystem and make distributed application development as easy as building blocks.
Sealos's "cloud development" concept can be said to be a pure and thorough realization of Serverless. It not only supports Function as a Service, but also incorporates PaaS capabilities such as database and storage to form a complete Serverless full stack, with special emphasis on orchestrating various applications in Sealos through functions. If it can form an ecosystem in the developer community, Sealos is expected to create a new situation in the serverless field.
The community is growing rapidly and the future is promising
As of now, Sealos has received 12,800 stars on GitHub⭐ ! The rapid growth of this number is behind the trust and support of many contributors, followers and users. Standing at a new starting point, Sealos will adhere to the concepts of openness, innovation, and inclusiveness, and strive to make the cloud operating system truly a digital infrastructure for the public, making distributed applications within reach.
An excellent open source project often requires continuous breakthroughs in experience, technology, ecology, etc. Sealos’ uniqueness and forward-thinking in these dimensions make it stand out. We look forward to Sealos striding forward on the road of cloud native, making dreams come true, and innovation benefiting the world.
