0Overview
The server operating system has remained the same for 50 years. As we store more of our data online and through servers, we risk our data being compromised by cyber threats.
NanoVMs is developing a new operating system to change the game. The new OS is unikernel based to run Linux apps safer and faster so you don’t have to compromise on security.
The Problem
Cyber-security is a major concern for companies that rely on servers to store large amounts of data. Servers today can allow multiple users to access data at the same time, creating opportunities for data breaches and targeted cyber attacks. The current server operating systems aren’t designed for these types of attacks. Not only are data breaches costly, they can create distrust and customer loss for companies.
Sources: Facebook $1.63B; Google+ shutdown; Uber paid $148m
The Solution
NanoVMs uses unikernels, which are designed to run a single-program as an OS. Unikernels are single process machine images. Unlike the Windows or Linux OS, unikernels prevent multiple programs from running, which in turn prevents attackers from running their own software on your server.
The Market
The key audiences we’re impacting are developers and devops. The DevOps market is expected to be worth $15 billion by 2026, with a compound annual growth rate of 19.1%. This is a significant increase from the DevOps market worth in 2018, which was $3,708.1 million.
Meanwhile, the market for cybersecurity is already an existing $60 billion market. By 2025, the market is projected to grow to nearly $110.99 billion, and then to $182.32 billion by 2030.
Our Traction
We have gained recognition in our 5 target markets: healthcare, finance, energy, telecom and government. Since we founded NanoVMs in 2015, we have raised $2.4 million in funding, which includes $170k from the Department of Energy. We have also received revenue from the U.S. Air Force, which includes a 5-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contract for the U.S. Air Force Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). This multiple-award contract gives NanoVMS a minimum of $1,000 up to a ceiling of $950M over the next 5 years.
Additionally, we have filed 4 patents, and have 2 issued for our technology. We have run trials with Amgen, a multinational biopharmaceutical company. Recently we launched the new Nanos C2 product with revenue attached.
We have been profiled by Forbes, the Air Force, DOE, TechCrunch and the VMBlog.
What We Do
We are developing a production-ready, unikernel platform. We offer a free, open-source base kernel and orchestration tool for DevOps users. Additionally, we run the Nanos C2 product which is a graphical web application that allows users to control their OS infrastructure as unikernels. We also offer technical support plans for performance engineering and software support including bug fixes, technical advice, and feature development planning.
The Business Model
Our profits come through our SAAS licenses and the Nanos C2 product, as well as our technical support packages. We offer 3 Nanos Support subscription models: business ($600/month), small team ($300/month), and individual developer ($30/month). The Nanos C2 product can be purchased at a monthly rate of $7/user or as an annual package for $67.20/user/year (20% less). Meanwhile, NanoVMs Radar, our unikernel APM is sold single-user for Developer at $9/month or for Small Team at $25/month.
How We Are Different
The current market of cybersecurity support is primarily focused on other operating systems rather than Linux. However, our unikernel technology addresses containers security issues and normal Linux security issues.
*Comparison data computed based on management’ experience.
The Nanos kernel has only a tenth of 1% of the attack service compared to Linux. We are able to achieve speed and security with less code, libraries, and executables. Not having the concept of users or multiple processes gives us a huge boost in security and performance.
The Vision
Our goal is to revolutionize the server infrastructure environment through our unikernel OS. We anticipate doing this by scaling our team size to thousands of employees and building a strong, core outbound sales team. We are currently growing our team of kernel engineers. In the next few years, we want to be the number one server-side operating system for virtualized workloads including all public cloud data.
OUR LEADERSHIP
We are a team with years of professional experience in unikernels and the tech industry. Many of our kernel engineers have worked at storage and networking companies in Silicon Valley before joining us at NanoVMs.
Ian Eyberg, CEO: Ian is the founder and CEO of NanoVMs and a frequent speaker on the subject of unikernels. He holds 2 issued patents on unikernels and 2 more filed.
Will Jhun, Principal Kernel Engineer: Will is an outstanding principal kernel engineer. He has attended Stanford, and worked at companies such as Cisco. Will was responsible for spearheading the effort to reverse engineer AWS instances and adding support to run Nanos on AARCH64 platform.
Justin Sanders, Sr. Kernel Engineer: Justin attended the University of Georgia and has worked at companies like Coraid. Justin has extensive hypervisor, networking and SMP related work.
Francesco Lavra, Sr. Kernel Engineer: Francesco is a highly talented kernel engineer that is capable of breaking down extremely technical problems and swiftly coding up solutions. Francesco was responsible for initial Firecracker integration and more.
Fabio Ferreria, Sr. Backend Software Engineer: Fabio leads our backend software engineering with emphasis on OPS, is wholly responsible for the Nanos C2 product and works on other un-announced projects in the domain.
Why Invest
NanoVMs is here to stay: we’re creating an operating system that we see as a long-term solution for today’s cloud-based cyber-attacks. Our product supports the most popular server-side operating system, Linux. This is critical, as Linux is behind the world’s largest tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Uber. Our unikernel approach provides speed and security so companies can prevent cyber-attacks before they happen. Our software will help support 5 large markets: healthcare, finance, energy, telecom and government, but we are just getting started. Join us on the quest to change the server-side OS by providing a solution which is built for today’s world of cloud-based computing.
The days of massive, vendor-independent enterprise technology conferences like Comdex are long gone. Today, all the action is at the big vendor shows, like Dell Technologies World, IBM Think, CA World, and last week’s VMworld, to name a few.
The Department of the Air Force has selected eight additional companies to compete for the opportunity to develop, test and integrate new capabilities for the Advanced Battle Management Systems (ABMS).
Department of Energy Contract Award: Unikernel Isolation for Secure SCADA
DeferPanic secures $1.5 M seed round to popularize unikernel concept
Shrink Wrap Your OS
NanoVMs Announces First Plug and Play Unikernel Tool
Cryptojacking: The Newest Trick Up Hackers' Sleeves
Cyber Security Experts Weigh In on Marriott/Starwood Data Breach
SD Times news digest: NGINX API Management Module, GitHub Enterprise, and K2 acquires K2NE
Goodbye Ransomware, Hello Cryptojacking!
SEEKING THE ROOT CAUSES OF CYBER INSECURITY, PART II – BROWSERS AND OPERATING SYSTEMS
Unikernels vs. containers: See the lightweight championship fight
What We Can Learn from the Marriott Data Breach
Company | : | NanoVMS, Inc. |
Corporate Address | : | 148 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 |
Offering Minimum | : | $10,000.00 |
Offering Maximum | : | $4,031,600.00 |
Minimum Investment Amount(per investor) | : | $100.00 |
Offering Type | : | Convertible Promissory Notes |
Type of Equity Converted Into | : | Preferred Stock |
Conversion Trigger | : | $10,000,000.00 |
Maturity Date | : | April 01, 2023 |
Valuation Cap | : | $20,000,000.00 |
Discount Rate | : | 1.0% |
Annual Interest Rate | : | 2.0% |
What is a Convertible Note?
A convertible note offers you the right to receive Preferred Stock in NanoVMS, Inc.. The amount of Preferred Stock you will receive in the future will be determined at the next equity round in which the Company raises at least $10,000,000.00 in a qualified equity financing. The highest conversion price per security is set based on a $20,000,000.00 Valuation Cap or if less, then you will receive a 1.0% discount on the price the new investors are paying. You also receive 2.0% interest per year added to your investment. When the maturity date is reached, if the note has not converted then you are entitled to receive Preferred Stock equal to your investment and interest back at a price per security determined by dividing the Valuation Cap by the aggregate number of outstanding equity securities of the Company as of immediately prior (on a fully diluted basis).
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The 10% Bonus for StartEngine Shareholders
NanoVMS Inc. will offer 10% additional bonus interest for all investments that are committed by investors that are eligible for the StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. OWNer's bonus.
Eligible StartEngine shareholders will receive a 10% increase in the annual interest rate on Convertible Promissory Notes in this Offering. This means your annual interest rate will be 2.2% instead of 2%.
This 10% Bonus is only valid during the investors eligibility period. Investors eligible for this bonus will also have priority if they are on a waitlist to invest and the company surpasses its maximum funding goal. They will have the first opportunity to invest should room in the offering become available if prior investments are canceled or fail.
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New Package Repository
We've opened up https://repo.ops.city/ today as a new unikernel package repository. For those that have used our open source tooling you'll know that we've had a package repository for quite a while but only NanoVMs employees were allowed to contribute to it. This new one which we quietly rolled out in the last ops release allows anyone to add their own unikernel packages making it ever easier to deploy their applications to production. There are many benefits such as grabbing more advanced metrics on usage, SEO, community building, etc. however it also opens up a brand new monetization route allowing us to charge for private packages, organizational control and such.
Two Days Left
We are closing out this current round in two days and won't be extending. Now is your last chance to invest at these terms.
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You all might have noticed that we had to file a new disclosure as we had a new outside investor come in recently at $50,000. Just to note they were given the same valuation cap, discount as you all.
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RISC-V:
As mentioned earlier we recently received a grant from the NSF (National Science Foundation) to add RISC-V support to the Nanos unikernel. We already have the initial support landing in it's first PR: https://github.com/nanovms/nanos/pull/1651 . Obviously there is more work to do here but being able to run it on riscv64 so soon is awesome. There actually isn't even real hardware that we can run this on yet but that didn't stop us.
Bhyve:
We recently added support to run Nanos unikernels on FreeBSD's Bhyve hypervisor which you can read about in this blogpost: https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-unikernels-on-bhyve-hypervisor-on-freebsd . FreeBSD is still used by companies such as Netflix and others, for networking performance reasons and Bhyve is the equivalent of KVM for it.
Benzinga Video Interview:
We recently sat down with Benzinga and talked about the market opportunity for unikernels and what our company is up to. You can watch here
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benzinga_ad-activity-6876578217822699520-URFn/ and here https://twitter.com/Benzinga/status/1470811894290202627 .
You all might have seen the update for the "material change". These are required in events such as receiving outside investment of which we just received $250,000 from an outside investor. They invested at the same valuation you all are investing at. So the amount you see on StartEngine are only funds raised on StartEngine and this one is from the outside.
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