What it sells
Open source alternative to AWS
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedCTO / engineering or DevOps leads at startups and mid-size tech teams.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
High AWS/GitHub Actions bills and vendor lock-in.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Swap GitHub Actions runner label (one line) to run jobs on Ubicloud VMs; or provision VMs, managed Postgres and Kubernetes on Hetzner/Leaseweb/AWS bare metal via console, or self-host the open source.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Usage-based per-minute billing on cheap bare metal; claims 3-10x lower prices than AWS/GitHub (2 vCPU VM $41.89/mo vs $90 AWS; Postgres $78.15 vs $200).
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Self-serve signup, open source on GitHub, GitHub Actions use case as wedge, marketplace-style expansion (Postgres on Google Cloud).
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2024 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.