Cloud software-as-a-service application management startup Gravitational Inc. said today it has raised $25 million in new funding to fuel further product development and scale up business operations.

Founded in 2015, Gravitational is a cloud-based company that enables businesses to deliver their applications securely into any online environment. Cloud-agnostic would be one way to describe the company given that at its core is all about facilitating app deployments into any environment.

“As public cloud lock-in and complexity accelerates, software developers struggle to deploy and manage applications across public clouds and on-premises infrastructure,” Ev Kontsevoy, Gravitational co-founder and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “Our mission is to help developers get back into the business of innovating and out of the complexity of deploying, securing, and managing applications across on-prem, private cloud and public cloud environments.”

The problem Gravitational is tackling is real as major cloud providers continue to deploy their own solutions and variations on the cloud theme. The company offers multicloud and on-premises delivery without “drama,” it said, with support for multicloud privileged access management that it says doesn’t get in the way.

Gravitational also supports compliance and security best practices to make the task of an app engineer easier and more manageable.

Under the hood, the company uses open-source solutions that facilitate entire production environment in a single file. Using Gravitational, applications can be “dragged and dropped” across cloud providers or given to customers to run in their own data centers. Those open-source solutions include support for the application container orchestration software Kubernetes, which Gravitational believes app developers and engineers should use.

“Start with your application and don’t worry about clouds at all, don’t even have a cloud account in the beginning,” Kontsevoy told TechCrunch. “Make sure your application runs on top of Kubernetes, package all of your software dependencies into Kubernetes, use open-source software and open standards as much as you possibly can.”

Kubernetes is one of the most popular tools for managing software containers and Gravitational has been a long-standing supporter. In March, the company launched a new service that was said to make deployment of multiple Kubernetes instances simpler.

The Series A round was led by Kleiner Perkins. Including the new funding, Gravitational has raised $29.2 million to date. Previous investors include Fort Ventures, S28 Capital, Y Cominator and Zillonize Angel.

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