Ubicloud · Jun 2026
Announced early access for Ubicloud Postgres on Google Cloud, extending the service beyond bare metal and AWS.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Ubicloud is an open-source cloud platform and managed IaaS provider that runs on bare-metal infrastructure, aiming to deliver AWS-like core cloud services with lower cost, less lock-in, and self-hostable portability.
Primary product
Managed open-source cloud platform (IaaS) on bare metal, including compute, managed PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions runners.
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Cloud Infrastructure / IaaS
Offices
450 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107
Turfschip 267, 1186XK, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Esentepe Mah. Talatpaşa Cad. No:5/1 Levent, Istanbul
Business model
managed service
self-hosted open-source software
usage-based metered IaaS
open-source project / community distribution
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$16M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2024
Latest amount
$16M
Mar 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Founder-led, engineering-heavy, open-source-first, cost-conscious, and strongly oriented around simplicity, portability, and avoiding vendor lock-in. The team is distributed across multiple countries and hires in SF, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
Work style
Remote
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public YC job listings show Software Engineer compensation of $95k-$250k base salary plus 0.15%-0.50% equity, with US citizen/visa-only eligibility noted for the US role. Premium and standard runner pricing changes are also publicly posted, but no broader employee benefits package was found.
Product & market
Pricing
Public metered pricing billed monthly, based on per-minute resource consumption; managed service pricing varies by resource and region, with some free credits and usage allowances.
Differentiators
- —Open source and self-hostable
- —Runs on bare metal to lower cost
- —Portable across providers and clouds
- —Managed PostgreSQL with NVMe-backed performance
- —GitHub Actions runners with lower cost and higher cache capacity
- —No vendor lock-in emphasis
- —Essential-service focused platform rather than a broad hyperscaler suite
- —Open control plane and community collaboration
Technology
Ruby
Roda
Sequel
Rodauth
PostgreSQL
Tailwind CSS
Tailwind UI
jQuery
Linux KVM
Cloud Hypervisor
Linux namespaces
Linux nftables
IPsec
SPDK
SSH / net-ssh
PgBouncer
Cloudflare R2
Customers
Felt
Hatchet
AudienceKey
Linum
Competitors
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
AWS RDS
Aurora PostgreSQL
AWS EKS
Heroku Postgres
OpenStack
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
about $2M ARR (public estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
26.4K
Traffic estimate as of Oct 2025
Latest news
Ubicloud blog · Jan 2026
Announced a partnership with ClickHouse to power managed Postgres in ClickHouse Cloud, with native analytics integration and open-source collaboration.
Ubicloud blog · May 2025
Major managed Postgres upgrade adding read replicas, scale up/down, HA, connection pooling, maintenance windows, metrics, and APIs.
Ubicloud blog · Apr 2025
Previewed managed Kubernetes and claimed 60-70% lower costs than AWS EKS with a native container networking stack.
Ubicloud blog · Dec 2024
Introduced transparent caching for GitHub Actions, claiming 4x faster caching and larger free cache capacity.
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