Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Unikraft

AI is changing the speed and scale at which companies build software. Cloud infrastructure hasn't kept pace. Unikraft dramatically increases the scalability and reduces the cost of infrastructure for agents and AI workloads. We are thrilled to be partnering with talented technical founders like Felipe, Alexander, and Simon to help companies unlock their next stage of product and business growth." -Tom Drummond, Managing Partner/Heavybit

The Heavybit team is excited to welcome cloud scalability platform Unikraft to our portfolio. Unikraft helps companies of any size smash through the scalability barrier of expensive, always-on cloud compute.

For years, companies have relied on cloud compute resources to deliver and operate mission-critical infrastructure for their customers. Over time, cloud compute usage (and associated costs) have continued to rise for companies of all sizes, becoming so burdensome that they stifle the ability to innovate.

And while AI offers exciting new opportunities, it also brings new challenges. In particular, AI programs drive intermittent workloads that unexpectedly consume even more compute resources, blowing budgets out of the water and potentially discouraging future experimentation.

Why We’re Excited

As established enterprises grapple with spiraling cloud provider bills and emerging AI startups struggle with growing deployment costs, Unikraft offers an elegant solution to the ongoing cloud compute problem. By offering single-digit millisecond scale-to-zero functionality that significantly lowers moment-to-moment compute usage and costs, Unikraft empowers customers to not only reduce their cloud bills, but also to open up entirely new possibilities for their business.

We’ve already seen Unikraft’s early customers radically transform their product lines and business models, such as by offering net-new freemium product tiers that simply weren’t feasible previously. Unikraft is also making great strides in taming the unpredictable compute needs of AI programs, offering a potential solution to one of the single greatest challenges in AI development.

Going forward, Unikraft will continue to enhance its product and scale its team. Learn more about Unikraft by visiting the website, or get started now.

Meet the Founders

Felipe Huici

CEO and Co-Founder

Felipe is CEO and Co-Founder of Unikraft, a start-up dedicated to extremely efficient and open source virtualization tech. Prior he worked as chief researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe, has published in several top tier conferences such as SOSP, ASPLOS, OSDI, Eurosys, SIGCOMM, NSDI and CoNEXT, and has given talks at Open Source Summit, P99 and QCon, among others. Finally, Felipe is one of the founders and maintainers of the Linux Foundation Unikraft open source project.

Alexander Jung

CPO and Co-Founder

Alex co-founded Unikraft alongside Felipe and Simon whilst at NEC Labs Europe during his Ph.D internship. Originally working on automatic optimization techniques used on the open-source Unikraft library Operating System project, he has since contributed primarily to the company and open-source project's infrastructure, websites and documentation, tooling, and all visual- and social-media aspects. His main day-to-day responsibilities at Unikraft include developer experience, client outreach and relationships, growth and anything written in Go. Previously, Alex co-founded multiple startups based in the UK.

Simon Kuenzer

CTO and Co-Founder

Simon is deeply committed to lightweight virtualization technologies and enhancing cloud infrastructure with efficiency innovations. He has expertise in operating systems, virtualization, and networking. Before founding Unikraft, Simon spent a decade as a systems researcher at NEC Labs EU, publishing and presenting at top conferences like Usenix and FOSDEM. He is the original creator and lead maintainer of the Unikraft OSS project which serves as a fundamental base for the company's business. Simon has degrees from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), one of the EU’s top technical universities.