Fondo · Feb 2026
Launch recap covering Distr's GitHub integration, multi-environment deployment support, white-label portal, OCI registry, telemetry, and OpenFeature-compatible licensing.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Glasskube is the company behind Distr, an open-source software distribution/control plane for self-managed, BYOC, on-prem, VPC, and air-gapped deployments. It was founded in 2023, is YC Summer 2024-backed, and operates from Vienna with a Chicago presence.
Primary product
Distr
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Vienna, Austria
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Software distribution / DevOps tools
Offices
Vienna, Austria (HQ)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Business model
open-source software
enterprise software
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Aug 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Aug 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Small, founder-led startup with an open-source, hands-on, fast-paced culture focused on privacy, cybersecurity, and digital sovereignty. Public hiring copy emphasizes curiosity, initiative, and building directly in a small team.
Compensation
A public Vienna role listing showed roughly €50k-€75k for a founding AI engineer; no company-wide compensation policy is publicly disclosed.
Benefits
Paid time off
Product & market
Pricing
Free-to-start with demo-led enterprise sales
Differentiators
- —Open-source control plane for self-managed, BYOC, on-prem, VPC, and air-gapped deployments
- —API-first and automation-ready
- —GitHub integration
- —White-label customer portal
- —Built-in OCI registry
- —OpenTelemetry-based analytics
- —OpenFeature-compatible licensing
- —Supports Docker Compose, Terraform, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes
Technology
Go
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
Docker
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
Terraform
Helm
GitHub
OpenTelemetry
OCI registry
OpenFeature
Customers
Artifact
Lerian
Sophris.ai
Basedash
Ozgar AI
Weave
Competitors
Replicated
Spectro Cloud
Northflank
vCluster Labs
Sidero Labs
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$900K estimated ARR (third-party estimate)
Latest news
Glasskube blog · Oct 2025
Glasskube explains why it built HyprMCP Gateway for Distr's MCP server, citing authentication, analytics, and hosting problems and describing the open-source/hosted gateway.
Glasskube blog · Sep 2024
Announced GitOps/ArgoCD support, Renovate integration, Glasskube Hub, and private-package services.
brutkasten · Jun 2024
Reported Glasskube's Y Combinator acceptance and the associated $500,000 investment.
Glasskube blog · Apr 2024
Announced the beta release, focused on package configuration, dependency management, and a growing package catalog.
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