Unikraft

Unikraft Cloud is a cloud platform that runs Dockerfile-based workloads as minimal, Linux-based microVMs with hardware-level isolation. The website states cold starts under 10 ms, scale-to-zero, and up to 100K+ instances per server. Listed use cases include sandboxes, headless browsers, remote desktops, build and test environments, functions, databases and game servers.

The platform is aimed at developers and teams building AI agents, sandboxes and other short-lived or scale-to-zero workloads. Pricing is tiered: a free Hobby plan, a Team plan at $39/month, a Pro plan at $199/month, and a custom Enterprise plan that includes on-prem or BYOC deployment and dedicated hosts. The website also lists SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance.

The company is listed as founded in 2022 with founders Felipe Huici (CEO), Simon Kuenzer (CTO) and Alexander Jung (CPO). The About page describes research starting at NEC Labs Europe in 2017, the Unikraft OS project launched under the Linux Foundation in 2019, and a pre-seed round in 2022. Registry data lists Germany as the country. Its four open roles on the careers page are a Systems Engineer and a Field Engineer on the Platform Team, an Account Executive for Europe on the Growth Team, and an open application, all fully remote.

Product: Unikraft Cloud: a platform that runs Dockerfile-based workloads as microVMs with sub-10ms cold starts and scale-to-zero.