Mesosphere, Inc.

Mesosphere is an American technology company based in San Francisco, California which develops software for data centers based on Apache Mesos. It calls its product Datacenter Operating System.

History

Mesosphere was established in 2013 by Benjamin Hindman, Tobias Knaup and Florian Leibert. The Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) runs on servers in a physical or cloud computing data center, on top of a Linux distribution. In June 2014 the company announced $10.5 million of venture capital investment from Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective and Fuel Capital. A second round of $36 million investment was announced in December 2014, led by Khosla Ventures.

In August 2015, it was reported that Microsoft was in talks to acquire Mesophere. Valuations ranged from $150 million up to $1 billion, but nothing was officially disclosed.

Another investment round of $73.5 million in March 2016 was led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and included Microsoft.

The company was mentioned by marketing firm Gartner in 2016. It was listed by TechCrunch in 2016 for companies having valuation ranging in between $500 million to $1 billion. It had a 2016 contract with the United States government, and reportedly an investment from In-Q-Tel, controlled by the US Central Intelligence Agency.