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CoreOS

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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Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
competitors
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #854

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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Andreessen Horowitz

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High Signal interpretation

CoreOS is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
Container LinuxKubernetesetcdopen source communityRed Hatcontainerized applicationssecure automatic updating OS
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to CoreOS

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Nestybox

match 71

Nestybox creates software that enables Linux containers to act like virtual machines. This increases the use cases for containers and gives enterprises a less expensive and more flexible alternative to virtual machines in many scenarios. Our first product is a "container runtime", the software that creates the containers. It's called "Sysbox" and integrates with the popular Docker and Kubernetes engines, enabling these tools to deploy containers that act like virtual machines. This technology pr

shared extracted concept terms: container, linux, kubernete; shared product terms: create, container, linux, kubernete; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

authzed

match 57

We build the tools companies need to provide performant and scalable authorization for their applications. We’re founded by 3 successful entrepreneurs with expertise in enterprise software, most recently as leaders at Red Hat. Jake and Joey met on the APIs team at Google in 2010. They went on to found Quay, where Jimmy joined as their first hire. Over the past decade, they’ve changed the landscape for building and deploying software.

shared product terms: scalable, application, leader, red; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Odigos Technologies Inc.

match 56

Odigos leverages eBPF technology to create an open-source solution that can automatically generate distributed traces for any application without any engineering work. Developers are struggling with extracting and delivering high-quality monitoring data. Currently, building a pipeline is a manual process that takes months to implement, is an error-prone process that requires tons of code changes across multiple R&D teams, and demands collaboration.

shared extracted concept terms: application; shared product terms: create, deliver, application, distribut; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, open source and local first; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

mutable.ai

match 50

Mutable.ai is automating corporations starting by automating software and software understanding. Our product auto wiki (https://wiki.mutable.ai/kubernetes/kubernetes, https://twitter.com/mutableai/status/1744426997575553413) turns code into wikipedia style articles with citations to the code is the best way to understand complex technologies

shared extracted concepts: kubernetes; shared product terms: kubernete, http, com, twitter; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Data Mechanics

match 30

Data Mechanics was acquired by NetApp in 2021 and integrated in the Spot.io product portfolio. Our managed Spark-on-Kubernetes platform is live and running under the name Ocean for Apache Spark: https://spot.io/products/ocean-apache-spark/

shared extracted concept terms: kubernete; shared product terms: kubernete, http; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

CrowdMob

match 6

Other company.

shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort