Ankra
DevOps & Platform Engineering · Virtualization & Containers
Venture roundlatest round · May 2023 · 3 yr ago
2backers · Techstars, Superseed
2024founded
38stories in the press
Overview
Describe what to ship. Ankra builds Kubernetes Stacks, reconciles them with its native GitOps engine, and operates your clusters with AI.
Funding and backers
Latest round
Venture round
May 2023 · 3 yr ago
Backers
2
Techstars, Superseed
The money's age
Long since its last round
41 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 23%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2023 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Ankra AB | its site |
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Financials
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
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Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
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News
Migrating From Vercel and Supabase to Ankra: What Moves and What Changes
Vercel and Supabase are a very good way to start. Push to GitHub and you have a URL. Click a button and you have Postgres with sign-in, file storage and an API on top. For a new product that is hard to beat. The reasons to move come later. Usage-based bil
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Cheaper Than Hetzner: The Cheapest On-Demand Kubernetes on the Internet
A Kubernetes environment with 2 vCPU and 4 GB of memory on Ankra costs €5.21 a month. The same shape at Hetzner, the provider everyone in Europe points to when they say "cheap", is a CX23 at €5.49, plus €0.50 a month for its IPv4 address. And a CX23 isn't
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Ten Claude Developers, a €350K Bill, and the Kimi K3 Cluster It Takes
Ten developers on Claude Team Premium looks like an €864 monthly bill. It is not. That is the seat bill. Once developers reach their included limits, usage credits take over and the same session continues at API rates. For a team running agents all day, t
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Our Logging Stack Worked For Two Years. It Was Also Shipping Logs As Admin.
We run our own logging. OpenSearch, driven by the OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator, with Fluent Bit on every node shipping container logs into it, on the cluster that hosts our internal infrastructure. It has been up for months. Dashboards loads, the search
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One Command From Docker Compose to Kubernetes, Data Included
Every "move it to Kubernetes" guide has the same shape. Translate the compose file. Write the manifests. Apply them. Admire the pods. Then, in a paragraph near the end that starts with "of course", the data: dump it, copy it somewhere, get a shell inside
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One Prompt to a Live URL: The Anatomy of an Agent-Shipped Product
For a recent internal demo day, this was the entire specification: Create me a single page that is something fun related to facts about the deep sea and make it animated....
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A Managed AI Stack for Developers: Private, Under Your Control, Costed to the Token
Somewhere in your company this week, a developer pasted proprietary code into a public AI chatbot. Maybe it was a stack trace with internal hostnames in it. Maybe it was a customer document they wanted summarised, one covered by a confidentiality clause t
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Build a Fleet of AI Agents on UpCloud Kubernetes
Most "AI agent" demos are a chat box wired to an API key. That is not a fleet, and it is not something you would let near production. A fleet is several agents, each with a distinct job, each reachable in the channel where the work already happens, each w
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AWS vs GCP vs Hetzner: Six Clouds, One Kubernetes Benchmark
Yesterday we published UpCloud vs OVH vs DigitalOcean , three identical clusters under one in-cluster suite: k6 HTTP load with SLO thresholds, iperf3 across nodes, fio and sysbench on every worker. The obvious question arrived within hours: fine, but what
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UpCloud vs OVH vs DigitalOcean: One Kubernetes Benchmark, Three Different Clouds
Three providers. Three clusters, provisioned the same morning, each with one control plane and two workers at 2 vCPU and 4 GB per node, all in the same price band of roughly 20 to 30 dollars a month per node. Same Kubernetes distribution, same CNI, same b
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Stockholm
Sweden
HQ