About Us
Our Vision & Mission
Vision
Power through automation – that’s what we unconditionally strive and stand for. We strongly believe that Kubernetes and cloud native technologies are the key to achieve the optimum level of automation, flexibility, speed and resilience that companies need to scale their business models and modernize their existing IT infrastructure.
Mission
This is why all of our passion, work and efforts go into building the world’s most adaptable and autonomous software delivery platform. We want organizations worldwide to unleash the full power of automation to innovate and lead in the digital world.
Our History
In early 2016, Kubermatic (or Loodse back then) was not much more than two guys with a gut feeling that Kubernetes could potentially be a big thing, and the ambition to build a business model around that. After discussing this rather vague idea on several cycling trips, Kubermatic founders Julian Hansert, COO and Sebastian Scheele, CEO didn’t hesitate for very long, registered the company, and turned Julian’s living room into the first office.
What followed thereafter can only be described as a crazy rollercoaster ride that sometimes left us a little dizzy.
Our Milestones
2025June
Kubermatic Wins 2025 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx. As Intellyx celebrates 11 years of championing digital transformation, this award recognizes companies that are making bold strides in reshaping the enterprise technology landscape — and we're honored to be among them.
2024March
After months of development, we proudly launch KubeLB, our ultimate Load Balancer solution.
October
The Big Day arrives and we introduce the world to Kubermatic Cloud Stack, allowing you to build and manage your private cloud entirely with Kubernetes.
November
And to finish this year with a bang, we launch our internal developer platform: Kubermatic Developer Platform. Designed to make life easier for Developers, KDP automates repetitive tasks, freeing up Developers' time to do what they do best.
2023August
Kubermatic recognized as one of the five 'Cool Vendors' in the August 2023 report by Gartner titled 'Cool Vendors in Container Management'. Kubermatic is the only European vendor to be recognized in the August 2023 report by Gartner titled 'Cool Vendors in Container Management'.
September
Kubermatic is the winner of the ECN Award 2023 in the category "Euro Cloud Native Member of the Year".
2021November
Investment announcement! We raise a total of $8.3M in Seed Funding, led by Nauta Capital and followed by btov Partners.
2020June
BIG BANG!!! We open source our core software KKP and change the name of the company from Loodse to Kubermatic. (After four years of trying to explain how to pronounce “Loodse”, we decided to give up).
2019May
We open source KubeOne – our Kubernetes lifecycle management tool, which automates deployment and operations for single Kubernetes clusters.
June
Kubermatic joins the MELLODDY consortium.
2018May
Kubermatic becomes one of the first twenty Kubernetes Certified Service Providers (KCP) and Kubernetes Training Partners (KTP). Just three years later, the cloud native landscape lists 200 KCPs and 50 KTPs.
2017February
Convinced that organizations would get to a point where they would adopt multiple, rather than single Kubernetes clusters, we launch the beta version of Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP).
May
We receive the German Accelerator Tech award for exceptionally promising tech startups.
2016April
Founding
June
We organize the first ContainerDays (CDS) conference with more than 200 container enthusiasts in Hamburg harbor. (At the time, these numbers were very exciting, considering that KubeCon Europe had about 400 participants that year. Looking at CDS’s participation numbers today, it’s truly amazing how much this event has grown.)