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CoreOS (YC S13) — Open source tools of modern distributed systems

CoreOS is part of the Red Hat family. A leader in the open source community and an innovator of open source projects, CoreOS creates and delivers critical components for containerized applications that help fuel broad adoption of secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure.

CoreOS is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2013 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Open source tools of modern distributed systems. The founder listed is Alex Polvi (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 2, 2013).

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CoreOS

New accelerator entry · 2013-05-02 · the record

Summer 2013
batch
150
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2013
Announced2013-05-02
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size150
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
SectorsOpen Source, DevOps
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo

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CoreOS is part of the Red Hat family. A leader in the open source community and an innovator of open source projects, CoreOS creates and delivers critical components for containerized applications that help fuel broad adoption of secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure. The team maintains several open source projects, including: Container Linux: the secure automatic updating OS; and etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes. Join us at https://coreos.com/ and @CoreOS on Twitter.

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