Petrichor

Petrichor Holdings, Inc., operating from Reno, Nevada, functions as a holding company with a strategic focus on container orchestration technology. The firm was founded in 2013 by Jake Warner, who serves as the CEO. Petrichor has pursued a 'Zebra model' for funding, consciously avoiding traditional venture capital routes in favor of building a network of over 25 angel investors from diverse industries to support its growth. Investors include groups like the CoreNetwork Fund and Reno Angels.

The company's core offering is Cycle (Cycle.io), a wholly-owned subsidiary that provides a platform for deploying, managing, and monitoring containers on bare-metal infrastructure. The Cycle platform was developed to address the complexities and high maintenance burden associated with mainstream container orchestrators like Kubernetes. It targets development teams, particularly in small to midsize companies, who find other solutions too cumbersome and seek to improve deployment velocity and developer productivity without needing a large, specialized DevOps team.

Cycle operates as a unified layer that abstracts infrastructure management, enabling developers to deploy containers with simplicity. The platform consists of a core, managed by Cycle, and a compute service that runs on the user's own infrastructure, whether on-premise or across cloud providers such as AWS, Equinix Metal, and Vultr. A key feature is a lightweight, self-updating Linux-based operating system (