Managing and securing today’s complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be a major challenge. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2025, here are six cloud technology startups, founded in 2019 or later, that solution providers should be aware of.
Managing In A Multi-Cloud World
IT estates now operate far beyond the data center, sprawling across extensive multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud networks. Businesses and organizations are running more of their applications and storing more of their data in cloud-based systems – including public and private clouds.
Managing and securing those environments have become a major task for IT: Applications need to be connected and integrated. Data needed for operational and analytical tasks may be dispersed across multiple silos. Just tracking what cloud services an organization is using – and paying for – can be a significant challenge.
To help overcome these headaches, a new generation of startups is building leading-edge products for deploying, connecting and managing cloud infrastructure systems and applications – and keeping cloud computing costs in check.
As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2025, here are six cloud software startups, founded in 2019 or later, that solution providers should get to know. The following slides include lightly edited company and product descriptions provided by the startups.
ControlMonkey
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Aharon Twizer, CEO and Co-Founder
ControlMonkey provides a fully end-to-end terraform control platform that delivers automation, visibility, and compliance across complex cloud environments, empowering enterprises to manage, secure and scale infrastructure as code with speed and confidence.
Built for modern DevOps, platform, and SRE (site reliability engineer) teams that manage cloud environments, ControlMonkey eliminates drift, complexity, and manual effort through automation, compliance enforcement, AI-powered code generation, policy-safe provisioning, and continuous, proactive remediation.
Website: https://controlmonkey.io/
CyberDrain
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Kelvin Tegelaar, Founder
CyberDrain’s mission is solving the real, daily pain for MSPs with its product CIPP, used by over 8000 MSPs today to perform multitenant management on over 2.7 million Microsoft tenants. In just three short years CyberDrain has become a leader in the M365 multi-tenant management space, supported directly by Microsoft.
CIPP (CyberDrain Improved Partner Portal) is an MSP multitenant management product for Microsoft 365. CIPP is open source, free to use for MSPs, but has a paid support component. CIPP allows MSPs to easily manage multiple M365 tenants and apply their own baseline standards to them.
Website: https://cyberdrain.com
Entro Security
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Itzik Alvas, CEO and Co-Founder
Entro secures non-human identities, secrets, and AI-driven access across modern cloud environments. It delivers end-to-end visibility, ownership attribution, and compliance, helping CISOs and security teams prevent sprawl, detect anomalies, and stop unauthorized access. This empowers organizations to protect sensitive data and reduce risk from automation, AI agents, and service accounts.
The Entro Security Platform offers agentless discovery, precise ownership mapping, NHIDR (non-human identity detection and response), real-time detection, and full lifecycle management with automated remediation. Designed for mid-to-large enterprises, it serves cloud-first and regulated industries needing unified visibility and control over NHI risk.
Website: https://entro.security/
Kloudfuse
Founded: 2021
Top Executive: Pankaj Thakkar, CEO and Co-Founder
Kloudfuse develops a unified cloud observability platform that delivers intelligent, real-time insights for infrastructure, application, and AI troubleshooting. It provides enhanced deep stack visibility and accelerates issue remediation while improving cost efficiency, compliance, and control.
The Kloudfuse platform integrates metrics, logs, events, traces, and AI workload and digital experience monitoring into a unified data lake. Built on open standards and OpenTelemetry, its Self-SaaS model runs within customers’ infrastructure, offering full control, faster troubleshooting, enhanced security, and cost efficiency.
Website: www.kloudfuse.com
Orca Security
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Gil Geron, CEO
Orca is a pioneer in agentless cloud security that’s trusted by hundreds of enterprises. Its patented SideScanning technology offers 100-percent visibility into risks and compliance across cloud workloads and configurations, covering the entire SDLC (software development life cycle). Orca’s AI-driven platform enhances risk detection, simplifies investigations, and speeds remediation for security, DevOps, and development teams.
Orca’s purpose-built CNAPP boosts cloud workload protection efforts by discovering risks across all cloud assets, including VMs, containers, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless functions, with unparalleled speed and coverage. Unlike other CWPPs, Orca’s agentless-first approach fully deploys in minutes with 100-percent coverage, providing visibility into risks across every layer of an organization’s cloud estate.
Website: https://orca.security/
Ternary
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Sasha Kipervarg, CEO
Purpose-built for financial operations (FinOps), Ternary empowers organizations to drive accountability and maximize technology spending efficiency. Ternary delivers real-time visibility, actionable insights, and seamless collaboration to align cloud investments with strategic business goals. Trusted by global enterprises and leading managed service providers, Ternary manages over $7.5 billion in multi-cloud spending.
The Ternary MSP Platform helps partners deliver scalable, efficient FinOps services across all major clouds. With multi-tenant management, MSP Dashboards, and a Billing Rules Engine, partners can streamline client operations, automate reporting, and drive deeper cost insights—all from a single, purpose-built platform.
Website: https://ternary.app
