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HyperGrid
Hypergrid, a Los Altos-based company founded in 2009, offers an Intelligent Cloud Management Platform. The platform enables organizations to plan, migrate,...
HyperGrid
Hypergrid, a Los Altos-based company founded in 2009, offers an Intelligent Cloud Management Platform. The platform enables organizations to plan, migrate, optimize, manage, secure, and scale their cloud operations. Hypergrid has secured $88.2 million in total funding.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2016
Location
Region
Europe
Country
United States
City
Los Altos
Corporate office
Los Altos, CA, United States
Additional offices
Dublin, Ireland
Principals
Nariman Teymourian
CEO & Co-Founder
Rich Surace
CPO & Co-Founder
Dov Trachman
EVP, Corporate Development & Co-Founder
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What problem does HyperGrid's pricing model solve for large enterprises?
Traditional managed Kubernetes services bill per provisioned node or control plane, not per actual application workload. HyperGrid's platform abstracts the underlying infrastructure and charges based on workload execution seconds. This means a financial-services firm running burstable analytics can scale to thousands of containers without committing to idle server nodes in advance, reducing month-over-month cloud costs tied to over-provisioning.
How does HyperGrid source its engineering talent given its dual-headquarters structure?
HyperGrid operates from Los Altos, California, to access Silicon Valley's systems-level engineering pool, and from Dublin, Ireland, to recruit from Europe's Kubernetes and site-reliability-engineering community. The Dublin office emerged alongside the firm's early European enterprise trials, where local data-residency requirements made co-located engineering sales support essential for manufacturing and telecommunications clients.
Is HyperGrid a single-family office or a venture-backed operating company?
HyperGrid is a venture-backed operating company, not a family office. The firm raised capital from Dell Technologies Capital and other institutional tech investors to fund the transition from its prior identity as Gridstore, a hyper-converged storage company, into a cloud-native application orchestration business. No single-family wealth origin has been publicly disclosed.
What is the relationship between HyperGrid and the earlier company Gridstore?
Gridstore was the original company name, focused on hyper-converged storage infrastructure. In 2016, Nariman Teymourian and the founding team rebranded the firm to HyperGrid and pivoted into multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration. The rebrand represented a product shift from selling hardware-defined storage nodes to delivering a software-only platform that manages containerized workloads across public and private clouds.
Does HyperGrid explicitly avoid competing with Amazon EKS or Azure AKS directly?
HyperGrid explicitly avoids competing as a single-cloud Kubernetes service. Instead, it positions itself as a cross-cloud orchestration layer. The platform integrates with and manages environments running on EKS, AKS, Google GKE, and on-premises bare-metal Kubernetes. By avoiding a single-cloud dependency, the firm's enterprise sales motion targets companies whose cloud architects have a mandate to avoid vendor lock-in.
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