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CIQ
Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Cloud Computing
- North Valleys, Reno, NV
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Company mission
To help everyone to continuously surpass their own expectations, goals, and be an asset to others.
56% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Development of the Community Enterprise Linux Operating System (CentOS) was dropped by IBM’s RedHat in just 2020, leaving a gaping hole in the market. When CIQ’s founders swept in to offer a replacement, Rocky Linux, and a complementary support and servicing company CIQ, the demand reportedly skyrocketed - and, according to CIQ, it hasn’t subsided since.
That’s because the old CentOS was one of the principal OSs used by enterprise, cloud, VMs, and containers - Google, for example, was among one of its many enterprise users. Now Google has picked up Rocky Linux, and CIQ has consequently scooped up that major partnership too - and some healthy funding. It’s a fitting reward for a highly savvy play from the CIQ founders, picking up a tried-and-tested product that’s already achieved strong market penetration.
Besides Rocky Linux, CIQ has also developed cluster provisioning solution Warewulf, high performance computing (HPC) app containers tool Apptainer, and hybrid performance computing platform-as-a-Service Fuzzball. So it’s safe to say that CIQ has managed to skilfully manoeuvre its way into a pivotal position in the development of cutting edge high performance computing architecture. Now it will need to ensure it can capitalize on its lead.
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Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance (80% employer/20% employee)
- Flexible paid time off
- Employee stock options
- Remote work, no required travel for most positions
Company values
- Empowering - Innovating software infrastructure solutions for extreme performance and scale including service models designed to meet the needs of your organization
- Improving - Our passion is to always do better. Always provide more value. Always drive intelligent innovation. Always provide what the customer & community needs
- Growing - CIQ believes in constant and never-ending growth. We are growing fast and looking for like-minded people with an unwavering passion for always doing better for ourselves and others
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$26m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Founders
Gregory Kurtzer
(CEO)Spent over 16 years as a System Architect, Technical Lead, and Scientific Advisor at Berkeley Lab, before moving into a Corporate Advisor role at RStor. Alongside this, also founded and served as CEO at Sylabs.