About Upbound
Upbound is the creator and maintainer of Crossplane, an open-source, Kubernetes-native framework for building cloud-native control planes. The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with intelligent control planes that provision, operate, and adapt cloud resources, enabling self-service APIs and centralized governance. Its platform is trusted by 1,000+ enterprise teams worldwide and supports the shift from human-operated infrastructure to AI-native operations.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$69M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Founders
Bassam Tabbara
Founder and CEO of Upbound. Previously CTO and Co-Founder of Symform, then CTO at Quantum. Creator of open source CNCF projects Rook and Crossplane.
LinkedInIllya Chekrygin
Co-Founder of Upbound.
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