
CloudSphere provides IT visibility for enterprise companies with a holistic, continuous view of their applications, communications, infrastructure, and cloud costs to make data-driven decisions for migration, modernization, and monitoring. Their flagship platform, Illuminate360, offers automated agentless discovery and identification of shadow AI applications, as well as comprehensive IT estate visibility across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The platform's AI intelligence algorithm discovers COTS applications, services, and application dependencies, building service maps for a contextualized view of business services. CloudSphere's technology is fully automated, works across all IT environments, and offers true scalability for complex IT estates. Their business model appears to be SaaS, likely through subscription-based access to their platform.

CloudSphere provides IT visibility for enterprise companies with a holistic, continuous view of their applications, communications, infrastructure, and cloud costs to make data-driven decisions for migration, modernization, and monitoring. Their flagship platform, Illuminate360, offers automated agentless discovery and identification of shadow AI applications, as well as comprehensive IT estate visibility across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The platform's AI intelligence algorithm discovers COTS applications, services, and application dependencies, building service maps for a contextualized view of business services. CloudSphere's technology is fully automated, works across all IT environments, and offers true scalability for complex IT estates. Their business model appears to be SaaS, likely through subscription-based access to their platform.
Founded: 2016 (rebrand after acquisition activity)
Headquarters: San Jose / Mountain View area (Los Altos mentioned in some profiles)
Flagship product: HyperCloud — hybrid/multi-cloud management & consumption platform
Business model: Enterprise SaaS with on-prem appliance options
Funding (reported): Multiple rounds; Dealroom reports $93M total; other contemporaneous reports cite ~$44M prior to 2016
Hybrid and multi-cloud management, cloud cost optimization, governance, and self-service provisioning for enterprise IT estates.
2016
Cloud management / Enterprise SaaS
$19M
Contemporaneous reporting noted a $19M Series C for Gridstore prior to rebranding
Dealroom reports a total of $93M raised across six rounds (individual round details not provided in evidence)
“Atlantic Bridge; HighBar Partners”