10 Cloud Startups Poised for Success in 2025
CRN has compiled a list of the cloud startups to watch in 2025, recognizing companies founded in 2018 or later that have secured significant funding. These companies must also demonstrate the potential to thrive in the dynamic technology landscape of the coming year, with extra consideration given to those with established channel partner programs.
Gartner predicts that 90% of organizations will have adopted a hybrid cloud approach by 2027, which helps to establish the cloud’s continued importance. Furthermore, the research firm forecasts that global end-user spending on public cloud services will reach $723.4 billion in 2025, a significant increase from the projected $595.7 billion in 2024. According to Gartner, data management and synchronization are driving the growing demand for cloud services, especially to unlock new use cases in generative AI.
Here are some of the most promising cloud startups to watch in 2025:
1. Aviz Networks
CEO: Vishal Shukla
Aviz Networks, founded in 2019, develops open networking software for cloud-scale infrastructure. The company focuses on building open, cloud, and AI-first networks that prioritize choice, control, and cost savings. The San Jose, California-based company recently introduced its One Data Lake, launched a generative AI conversational Network Copilot, and upgraded its packet broker offerings for applications and 5G General Packet Radio Service Tunneling Protocol use cases. It offers an AI Network Copilot for capacity planning, business intelligence analytics, compliance, and other use cases with switches and clouds.
In November, Aviz secured a $17 million Series A funding round, with Cisco Investments among its backers. This funding will fuel hiring and product development. Aviz also has a partner program for resellers and distributors.
2. Cyera
CEO: Yotam Segev
Cyera provides an agentless data security platform that operates across various environments, including cloud, SaaS, and on-premises, delivering data security posture management and data loss prevention. The combined capabilities provide comprehensive visibility into data and access risks. The New York-based startup expanded its capabilities through the $162 million acquisition of Trail Security in October and is a member of CRN’s 2024 Partner Program Guide. Key partners include GuidePoint Security, World Wide Technology, and Trace3.
In November, Cyera announced a $300 million Series D funding round, following a previous round of the same amount in April. This latest round more than doubled the company’s valuation to $3 billion.
3. DevRev
CEO: Dheeraj Pandey
DevRev is challenging established players like Zendesk, Atlassian Jira, and Salesforce Service Cloud with its cloud-based, AI-native platform designed to unify customer support and product development. The Palo Alto, California-based company secured a $100.8 million Series A funding round in August, which brought its valuation to $1.15 billion.
DevRev users can generate connected knowledge graphs to power AI agents. The platform offers integrated road-mapping, issue tracking, and user insights. DevRev supports a partner program for resellers, implementers, and other business models.
4. Eon
CEO: Ofir Ehrlich
Eon emerged from stealth this year with its Cloud Backup Platform, which helps businesses back up data based on their business policies and compliance requirements. The New York-based vendor automatically assigns the appropriate backup policy and retention period, ensuring data is backed up for the right amount of time. Eon’s technology contextually understands, classifies, and indexes cloud resources and applications.
In November, Eon raised a $70 million Series C funding round, achieving a $1.4 billion valuation. Investors included Bond, Sequoia Capital, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
5. GMI Cloud (General Machine Intelligence)
CEO: Alex Yeh
GMI Cloud provides a cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) platform for users to train, fine-tune, and infer AI models. This is done with scalable GPU containers and preconfigured machine learning frameworks. Based in Santa Clara, California, the vendor’s on-demand GPUs start at $4.39 per GPU-hour, and its private cloud starts at $2.50 per GPU-hour.
In October, GMI Cloud announced a $15 million equity funding round and $67 million in debt financing in a Series A round, with the funds going toward a new data center in Colorado. GMI Cloud also has a partner program for systems integrators, consultancies, and other business models.
6. Guidewheel
CEO: Lauren Dunford
Guidewheel’s FactoryOps platform uses artificial intelligence to measure equipment performance and forecast production volumes and delivery dates. The San Francisco-based startup’s users attach noninvasive sensors to machine power supplies to send real-time data to the cloud, enabling data-driven decisions around machine issues. Coca-Cola, Igloo, and Kimberly Clark are among its customers.
In August, Guidewheel revealed that it raised $31 million in a Series B funding round. This investment allowed Guidewheel to push out product updates, including an improved issues scoreboard and enhanced waste tracking.
7. ScaleOps
CEO: Yodar Shafrir
ScaleOps is aiming to make a significant impact in the cloud resource management market. The New York-based company revealed a $58 million Series B funding round in November, as well as an AI-powered real-time predictive scaling capability and intelligent pod placement. These features can result in a 50% cost savings while improving application performance, according to ScaleOps.
ScaleOps also provides a Kubernetes resource optimization platform to enhance cluster reliability, automate resource requests per pod, and diagnose cluster-level and workload-level issues, among other features.
8. Spectro Cloud
CEO: Tenry Fu
Spectro Cloud’s Palette Kubernetes management platform supports container workloads and virtual machines at scale across various environments. In November, the San Jose, California-based vendor closed a $75 million Series C funding round to promote product innovation in edge computing and expand its go-to-market partnerships.
Following this funding round, Spectro Cloud announced an edge-in-a-box offering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and an extension for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Hybrid Nodes. Spectro Cloud has roughly 50 channel partners worldwide.
9. VirtualZ Computing
CEO: Jeanne Glass
VirtualZ Computing, which also appeared on last year’s list, continues to attract attention. In August, the Minneapolis-based vendor secured an additional $2.1 million in funding to advance its data access software. VirtualZ’s product suite is designed to integrate mainframe, cloud, and distributed environments for AI, analytics, and other applications.
VirtualZ’s Lozen software avoids replicating or migrating data from mainframes. Zaac allows mainframe applications to read and write data from other platforms in real time. Also, PropelZ, VirtualZ’s other flagship offering, creates mainframe data copies for experimentation and analysis in hybrid cloud environments. VirtualZ has integrations with Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, and IBM.
10. Wiz
CEO: Assaf Rappaport
Cloud security vendor Wiz, a startup from the previous list, is one of the world’s fastest-growing software startups. It has a 2024 run rate estimated at $500 million, supported by large customers like BMW, Fox, Morgan Stanley, and Salesforce. The New York-based vendor’s products scan a customer’s cloud storage data for security issues, rapidly identifying and removing critical risks in cloud environments.
In May, Wiz raised a $1 billion round led by private equity firms, bringing its valuation to $12 billion. In late 2024, Wiz acquired the channel-focused cloud security platform provider Dazz, strengthening Wiz’s remediation and data correlation capabilities. Wiz has around 190 channel partners globally.
