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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).
Gary Smerdon
CEO and Founder
David Reed
CTO and Founder
Carl Waldspurger
Chief Scientist
Bobby Minnear
VP of Engineering
Adam Bane
VP of Product Management
Eric Fitzpatrick
VP of Solutions Engineering
Nilesh Shah
VP of Business Development
Juhi Muthal
Director of Marketing
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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