Diagrid, a startup founded by the creators of Dapr and Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) received $24.2 million in funding, $4.2 million of which was from a seed round led by Amplify and the remaining $20 million from a Series A round led by Norwest. The company is announcing Diagrid Conductor, which is a fully managed Dapr platform for Kubernetes. The platform aims to help operations and management teams use Dapr in production, and enhance the reliability and operational ability of Dapr on Kubernetes. The company charges users per Kubernetes cluster, with plans to launch a self-service tool next year. With more than 2,000 contributors and 19,400 GitHub stars, Dapr is a CNCF incubating project and among the CNCF’s fastest-growing ones.
