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Chkk

Chkk

Chkk is developing cloud management software that prevents outages by detecting Availability Risks in Kubernetes environments. Chkk proactively discovers and organizes Availability Risks from outages that have already occurred in other clusters. Chkk Insights compares Kubernetes environments and helps prioritize mitigation/remediate efforts. Team includes key authors of AWS “Elastic Kubernetes Service” (EKS).

  • Round Partnered: Seed
  • Year Partnered: 2022
  • Fund: Clear Ventures II
  • Clear Partner(s): Chris Rust
  • Status: Active

TEAM

  • Nigel Duffy

    Founder

  • Simon Wilkinson

    Head of Engineering

  • Ryan McMahon

    Chief of Staff

Results Matter, Success Counts

Four of the companies our team co-founded produced over $1.7 billion of market cap from 2 IPOs and 2 acquisitions.

The Clear investment team has funded over 70 companies, 90% as the first investors, and has had 54 exits valued at a $85 billion market cap.

Before we became VCs, we had already founded 5 successful companies.

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