Portainer

Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Custom Software Development
$12.2Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
2open roles
$6.2Mlatest round · Venture round · Jun 2022 · 4 yr ago
3backers · Bessemer Venture Partners, Bright Pixel Capital

Overview

Portainer is one platform to deploy, run, secure, and govern Kubernetes across your whole fleet, from a single control plane. A platform is a product, not a project.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$12.2M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$6.2M
Venture round · Jun 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
3
Bessemer Venture Partners, Bright Pixel Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
52 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
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
Jun 22, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $6.2M May 5, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $6M Nov 3, 2016 On the Hacker News front page Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker · 146 points Oct 26, 2016 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
52 public repositories
Launched on Hacker News
3 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jun 2022 $6.2M — scoop.co.nz
Venture round May 2021 $6M — nbr.co.nz
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Jobs

Remote (India) · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Redis
ElasticSearch
DevOps
Rest API
Azure
Git
Kubernetes
IAM
Linux
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
Authentik
Microsoft Entra ID
Active Directory
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Remote (India) · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
Docker
Platform Engineering
Linux
VPN
IoT
MQTT
OPC UA
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~8 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
50% ▼
Solutions
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Active Directory to stack Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$12.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $6.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $6M Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Portainer over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
22
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
ElasticSearch
Redis
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Kubernetes
Active Directory
Authentik
Azure
Docker Swarm
Microsoft Entra ID
Developer tools
Docker
Docker Compose
Git
Rest API
Keycloak
MQTT
OPC UA
Practices & domains
IAM
Platform Engineering
VPN
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Connections

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Shared investors3
76 portfolio companies: OpenAI, Chamelio, Leadzai and 73 more
502 portfolio companies

News

News Portainer 2 months ago
The Docker API Ceiling: Why Portainer 3.0's New Capabilities Target Kubernetes
Portainer 3.0 is centering new investment on Kubernetes. Find out why the Docker API itself made that decision unavoidable.
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News heise online 2 months ago
Enterprise Shift: Portainer Freezes Community Edition
Starting with version 3.0, Portainer focuses on Kubernetes; Docker plays a secondary role. The Community Edition remains on the 2.x codebase.
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News Portainer 2 months ago
Portainer 3.0 is coming, and here's what it means for you
Learn about the future of Portainer - 3.0 - our new focus, and what it means for current and future users.
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News XDA 1 year ago
I replaced my NAS' management interface with Portainer, and it's so much better
Discover how Portainer simplifies Docker management on Synology NAS, offering a cleaner, faster, and more user-friendly experience compared to the built-in interface.
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News XDA 1 year ago
You can manage your self-hosted containers like a pro with Portainer - here's how
Need a beginner-friendly GUI that's laden with all the essential features to manage your containers? Portainer has your back!
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News exatrack.com 2 years ago
Perfctl malware exploiting exposed Portainer agent and using new SSH persistence - ExaTrack
Découverte de nouvelles techniques d'accès initial et de persistance SSH employées par les opérateurs de Perfctl, exploitant des agents Portainer exposés. EN
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