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Heroku

Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps. Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 60+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps. Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 60+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day.

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Heroku 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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Fortune 500 enterprisesstartupsplatform as a service (PaaS)PaaSHerokuapplications
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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 Heroku

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.

Docker

match 75

Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my machine” problems when collaborating on code with co-workers. Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated containers to get better compute density. Enterprises use Docker to build agile software delivery pipelines to ship new features faster, more securely and with confidence for both Linux and Windows Server apps.

shared extracted concept terms: enterprise; shared product terms: container, developer, run, manage; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Airware

match 72

Airware offers commercial drone solutions, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of aerial data for any business application. Airware’s solutions combine hardware, software, and cloud services to enable companies to efficiently manage and safely and reliably operate commercial drones at scale.

shared extracted concept terms: enterprise; shared product terms: enterprise, application, cloud, enable; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Zerocater

match 69

Zerocater builds revolutionary corporate catering and cafeteria solutions employees love while saving companies millions of dollars as they transition to the hybrid workplace. With its Cloud Cafe, Hybrid Cafe, Managed Cafe, and Event Cafe products; Zerocater has built corporate cafeteria and office catering programs for companies of all sizes from growing startups to the Fortune 500. Thousands of companies choose Zerocater for the customized, consistent, and diverse meal experiences its products

shared extracted concept terms: fortune, 500; shared product terms: cloud, companie, fortune, 500; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Requestly

match 69

Requestly helps developers build faster by intercepting, mocking, and testing API responses. No more waiting for backend developers, struggling with flaky staging environments, or fighting over API contracts. With 200,000+ active installs, Requestly is trusted by Google, Amazon, Workday, Indeed, and many other Fortune 500 companies.

shared extracted concept terms: fortune, 500; shared product terms: developer, companie, fortune, 500; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Galini

match 64

Galini guardrails-as-a-service filter harmful inputs and outputs based on company policies and industry regulations. We make it easy for enterprises to create, test, deploy and refine guardrails. With Galini, product and engineering leaders enjoy peace of mind knowing their AI apps are compliant at run-time, and save $1-10M in costs from avoiding in-house build

shared extracted concept terms: enterprise; shared product terms: industry, enterprise, create, deploy; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

SensorSurf

match 33

Technician helps you get your pull requests merged faster. We do this by listening to your check run logs for failures and provide suggested changes that you can instantly commit to your branch.

shared product terms: request, faster, run, logs; shared affiliation: Y Combinator