Diagrid

Diagrid

Automates Dapr-based distributed systems

Overview

Diagrid.io provides tools to design, deploy, and manage distributed systems. Its main products are Diagrid Conductor, which automates and unifies the management of Dapr on Kubernetes clusters, and Diagrid Catalyst, which offers developer APIs for event meshes, workflow orchestration, and state management that fit into existing code and infrastructure. The company targets startups, enterprises, and the open-source community, helping developers release business applications quickly by simplifying automation, event-driven communication, and state handling across distributed apps. Unlike many rivals, Diagrid is led by creators of Dapr and KEDA, positioning its platform around robust distributed-systems tooling and seamless integration with Kubernetes and cloud environments. The overall goal is to streamline development and operations for distributed applications, enabling faster, more reliable deployment of always-on, global services.

About Diagrid

Simplify's Rating
Why Diagrid is rated
C
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated C on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$24.3M

Headquarters

Federal Way, Washington

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Conductor manages 2,900 apps for SharperImage.com and Zeiss Vision Care.
  • Catalyst public beta supports multi-region AI agent scaling since September 2024.
  • Free Conductor tier and Azure Marketplace boost developer adoption.

What critics are saying

  • Microsoft AKS natively manages Dapr, eroding Conductor value since March 2025.
  • Temporal 2.0 Kubernetes captures 65% Dapr workflow users since January 2026.
  • Solo.io Gloo bundles Dapr APIs, undercutting Catalyst since October 2025.

What makes Diagrid unique

  • Diagrid Conductor automates Dapr management across Kubernetes clusters.
  • Diagrid Catalyst delivers serverless APIs for Dapr workflows and AI agents.
  • Founders Mark Fussell and Yaron Schneider created Dapr and KEDA.

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Funding

Total Funding

$24.3M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

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$8.2M
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$15M
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$20M
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$30M
Kalshi

Benefits

Health Insurance

Company Equity

Remote first & flexible work environment

Flexible Paid Time Off

Comprehensive healthcare for you and your dependents

Choice of hardware

Home Office Stipend

Monthly WFH stipend

Team events & gatherings

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Stock Options

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Hybrid Work Options

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Gym Membership

Phone/Internet Stipend

Parental Leave

Family Planning Benefits

Fertility Treatment Support

Adoption Assistance

Childcare Support

Elder Care Support

Relocation Assistance

Performance Bonus

Profit Sharing

Employee Referral Bonus

Holiday Bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Development Budget

Conference Attendance Budget

Training Programs

Professional Certification Support

Mentorship Program

Employee Discounts

Company Social Events

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

19%
PR Newswire
Apr 1st, 2025
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Releases 2025 State Of Dapr Report Highlighting Adoption Trends And Ai Innovations

Report finds 96% of developers save time using Dapr, driving faster development and increased efficiencyLONDON, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today released the 2025 State of Dapr Report, providing new insights into the project's accelerating adoption, developer productivity impact, and expanding role in AI-driven applications. Nearly half of surveyed teams are now running Dapr applications in production, marking a significant increase from previous years. As organizations seek scalable, cloud native architectures, Dapr's developer productivity benefits and growing role in AI applications have driven widespread adoption. According to the newly released State of Dapr 2025 Report, 96% of developers report time savings, with 60% seeing productivity gains of 30% or more when using Dapr. The runtime's ability to simplify microservices complexity, enable cloud portability, and support multiple programming languages has made it an essential tool for platform engineering teams and application developers alike

TechCrunch
Sep 25th, 2024
Diagrid launches Catalyst to help enterprises build their microservices

And as is also so often the case, some of the creators of Dapr - and the related KEDA project - left to found their own companies, including Diagrid, which is launching its fully managed Dapr service into public beta today.

Business Wire
May 15th, 2024
Diagrid Makes Running Dapr In Production A Reality: Managing Thousands Of Distributed Apps, Collecting Millions Of Metrics Every Day

FEDERAL WAY, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diagrid, provider of tools and services to build secure, reliable and portable applications using open source Dapr, today announced that Diagrid Conductor Enterprise is now collecting 4.5 million metrics per day to manage more than 2,900 apps on 3,900 pods providing critical support to customers that include SharperImage.com and Zeiss Vision Care. Diagrid also announced its participation as a Featured Partner at the Microsoft Build event from May 21–23 in Seattle, which expects 4,000 in-person attendees, and over 200,000 online. The company will showcase the Conductor Enterprise service, which is designed for managing Dapr applications on Kubernetes, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Conductor Enterprise helps to visualize interactions between applications and infrastructure components, automates operations, troubleshoots issues, and provides best practice guidance with recommended actions for using Dapr. Whether users are running Dapr with Kubernetes on their local machine, on-premises, or in the cloud, Conductor Enterprise serves as a single control center for all Dapr-enabled clusters. It not only ensures operational excellence, but also detects security, performance, and reliability issues, along with real-time insights into critical downtime events

Business Wire
Mar 19th, 2024
Diagrid Improves Dapr Microservice Application Development, Launches Free Conductor Tool For Developers

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KubeCon -- Diagrid, provider of tools and services to build secure, reliable and portable applications using open source Dapr, today announced a free tier of Diagrid Conductor that helps developers visualize interactions between applications, discover resources, troubleshoot errors, and provide best practice guidance.Open source Dapr is used by tens of thousands of developers across thousands of organizations to develop distributed applications with 30% greater productivity, according to the recent community survey. Now, developers building and testing applications using Dapr can use the Diagrid Conductor Free service to quickly and securely connect to Kubernetes clusters running Dapr and immediately gain deep insights to understand how the applications are running and their infrastructure.Developers can use the Conductor Free service to substantially improve their local Dapr development experience on Kubernetes, at no cost. With this initial release, key benefits with Conductor Free include the following:Application visualization and metrics. By gathering metrics from applications, Conductor builds a dynamic application visualization graph of the messages and calls between services including how these are connected to the underlying infrastructure. Key Dapr metrics, including error rates and throughput, can be visualized for the previous 12 hours.By gathering metrics from applications, Conductor builds a dynamic application visualization graph of the messages and calls between services including how these are connected to the underlying infrastructure. Key Dapr metrics, including error rates and throughput, can be visualized for the previous 12 hours

Business Wire
Mar 6th, 2024
Update To Dapr Open Source Accelerates Developer Productivity And Unleashes Workflow Capabilities

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dapr, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project maintained by Diagrid, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba, and others today announced the release of Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) 1.13 improving Kubernetes operations, hardening security and providing additional software development kits (SDK) for workflows. Dapr provides developers with APIs that abstract away the complexity of common challenges when building distributed applications. With Dapr taking care of the complex challenges such as service communication, pub/sub, state management, workflow, and secret management, developers can save time by avoiding the need to recreate repetitive code. Dapr 1.13 builds on its ability to reduce code sprawl, eliminate lock-in and minimize security exposures. Newly added in 1.13 are Go and Javascript SDKs to the Dapr Workflow API which allow developers to run fault-tolerant durable executions. Developers can now also use Rust to run Dapr Actors, a stateful and highly-scalable programming model

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