Startup profile for Mesosphere: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Mesosphere funding, valuation and investors

Enterprise Kubernetes and DC/OS platform (rebranded D2iQ; assets acquired by Nutanix).

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series C

$74M · 2016

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$74M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

acquired

Stage not recorded · San Francisco, CA

Investors in latest funding

Other: Andreessen Horowitz , Khosla Ventures , Lightspeed Venture Partners , Tribeca Venture Partners

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Mesosphere built DC/OS, an enterprise platform for running containers and data services on Apache Mesos clusters. The company rebranded to D2iQ in 2019 and pivoted toward Kubernetes management as Mesos adoption faded. Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Tribeca Venture Partners invested across growth rounds. Nutanix acquired D2iQ's assets and intellectual property in December 2023, ending independent operations.

Why Mesosphere is interesting

Early Apache Mesos pioneer that helped define cloud-native orchestration before Kubernetes won — a16z, Khosla, and Lightspeed backed multiple rounds; Nutanix acquired D2iQ assets in late 2023, closing the chapter on DC/OS.

Product & use cases

Mesosphere's core product was DC/OS (Data Center Operating System) — a platform layer for deploying Docker containers, Spark, Kafka, and other services across on-prem and cloud infrastructure. After rebranding to D2iQ, the company shipped Konvoy and related Kubernetes lifecycle tools for enterprise IT teams managing hybrid clusters.

  • Running containerized microservices on Mesos or Kubernetes clusters
  • Enterprise hybrid-cloud orchestration for data-intensive workloads
  • Migrating legacy big-data stacks (Spark, Kafka) to unified platforms

Key facts

  • Series C (2016): $74M; a16z, Khosla, Lightspeed, Tribeca among investors
  • Rebrand (2019): Mesosphere became D2iQ, pivoting to Kubernetes tooling
  • Exit (Dec 2023): Nutanix acquired D2iQ assets and IP — Axios

Funding history (newest first)

Series C

2016 $74M

Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mesosphere

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Andreessen Horowitz Khosla Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Tribeca Venture Partners

Competitive landscape

Edge: Early mover in data-center orchestration with deep Mesos expertise and enterprise support contracts — valuable before Kubernetes became the de facto standard.

Mesosphere bet on Apache Mesos when it competed with early Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. Kubernetes' community momentum and cloud-provider backing made Mesos a losing orchestration layer. D2iQ's pivot to Konvoy was rational but late against entrenched OpenShift, Rancher, and hyperscaler managed services. Nutanix's 2023 asset acquisition reflects acquihire/IP value rather than ongoing product leadership.

  • Red Hat OpenShift direct

    Enterprise Kubernetes platform with broader Red Hat ecosystem integration.

  • Rancher (SUSE) direct

    Multi-cluster Kubernetes management; won share as Mesos declined.

  • HashiCorp Nomad adjacent

    Lighter-weight scheduler alternative for mixed workloads.

  • Google Kubernetes Engine incumbent

    Managed K8s from the originators of Kubernetes itself.

Notable stories

  • Mesosphere grew out of the Apache Mesos project at UC Berkeley's AMPLab — the same lab that spawned Spark — giving it deep ties to the early big-data ecosystem.
  • The 2019 D2iQ rebrand acknowledged that Kubernetes had won the container orchestration war, ending Mesosphere's bet on Mesos as the primary abstraction.

Industries

Enterprise SaaS Infrastructure & Cloud

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Mesosphere built DC/OS, an enterprise platform for running containers and data services on Apache Mesos. It later rebranded to D2iQ and pivoted to Kubernetes management tools.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz), Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Tribeca Venture Partners backed multiple rounds.
The company rebranded to D2iQ in 2019. Nutanix acquired D2iQ's assets and intellectual property in December 2023.
Data Center Operating System — Mesosphere's platform for deploying and managing containerized applications and data services across clusters.
Kubernetes overtook Apache Mesos as the dominant container orchestrator. D2iQ shifted focus to Konvoy and enterprise Kubernetes lifecycle management.
Mesosphere built on Apache Mesos; Kubernetes became the industry standard. D2iQ eventually offered Kubernetes tools rather than competing orchestrators.
December 2023 — Nutanix acquired D2iQ assets. Terms were not fully disclosed in public reports reviewed.
No. D2iQ ceased independent operations after Nutanix's asset acquisition in late 2023.
Florian Leibert and Tobias Knaup co-founded Mesosphere, drawing on Apache Mesos expertise from the AMPLab ecosystem.
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