Tigera, Inc. today announced that it has closed its Series A funding round of $13 million to further its mission of securing cloud-native applications. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Wing Venture Capital. Ron Bernal, Venture Partner at NEA; Aaron Jacobson, Principal at NEA; and Peter Wagner, Founding Partner at Wing have joined Tigera’s Board of Directors.
This latest round of funding will enable Tigera to expand its engineering capacity and continue to foster the rapidly growing community momentum around three key open source projects: Calico, Canal, and Flannel. Project Calico has established itself as the leading policy-driven networking solution for cloud environments including Docker, Kubernetes, Tectonic, Apache Mesos, DC/OS, and OpenStack. The Canal project, a joint initiative between Tigera and CoreOS, integrates Calico’s advanced policy capabilities with the broad range of cloud networking options offered by the Flannel networking solution. The combination is a suite of capabilities that is rapidly emerging as the de facto standard for cloud-native policy-driven networking and network security.
