Docker raises $105M funding spherical to gas its give attention to builders

Docker has raised a contemporary spherical of $105 million in funding, because it continues to give attention to serving builders following the sale of its enterprise enterprise to Mirantis in 2019.

The $105 million Sequence C funding spherical was led by Bain Capital Ventures and joined by Atlassian Ventures, Citi Ventures, Vertex Ventures, and 4 Rivers Group. Present buyers Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Tribe Capital additionally participated within the spherical. Docker has now raised $163 million for the reason that Mirantis deal closed, valuing the corporate at $2.1 billion.

“From that reset level we needed to redo product technique, go-to-market, and the enterprise mannequin, and this funding spherical is an instance of quite a lot of these bets we made beginning to repay and are available collectively,” Docker CEO Scott Johnston informed InfoWorld.

Beneath Johnston, the brand new Docker has centered on serving builders constructing containerized purposes, primarily by way of the Docker Construct operate, the Docker Engine container runtime, the Hub picture repository, and the favored Desktop utility, which Docker began charging enterprise clients to make use of final 12 months.

Docker says it’ll use this newest funding spherical to spend money on its product, specializing in developer productiveness, trusted content material, and ecosystem partnerships, and increase into new gross sales channels and geographies.

On the product aspect, this may contain higher safety controls to allow enterprise builders to confidently use solely trusted container pictures and extra simply remediate vulnerabilities after they come up.

Docker can even look to increase its attain into new utility architectures, equivalent to serverless and WebAssembly. As Johnston sees it, each serverless and Wasm purposes nonetheless get constructed with an Open Container Initiative (OCI) container at their core, so enabling builders to proceed to construct purposes for these targets utilizing the acquainted Docker toolchain is a pure evolution of the product.

Coincidentally, Docker’s new funding spherical was introduced only a day after the Docker founder Solomon Hykes introduced a $20 million Sequence A funding spherical and launched a public beta for his new software program startup, Dagger.