D2IQ (formerly Mesosphere) was an enterprise cloud-native platform company providing Kubernetes management software for production-grade, multi-cluster, multi-cloud deployments. Founded in 2013 by Florian Leibert, Tobi Knaup, and Benjamin Hindman, the company built its early business around the Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) on top of Apache Mesos, and later pivoted to focus on Kubernetes with its flagship D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP). The company rebranded from Mesosphere to D2IQ in 2019 to reflect this strategic shift. D2IQ's platform was used by Global 2000 enterprises and U.S. federal agencies for managing containerized workloads at scale. In December 2023, Nutanix acquired the assets of D2IQ, folding DKP into its portfolio as the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP).
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Founded
2013
Employees
Acquired
Total Funding
$318.5M
5 rounds
Latest Valuation
$0.78B
May 30, 2018
Total raised $318.5M across 5 rounds
Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.
Last updated 06-25-2026
Latest Round
Type
Series C
Date
March 30, 2017
Amount
$73.5M
Valuation
$0.78B
Lead Investors
| Date | Round | Amount Raised | Valuation | Lead Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2018 | Series D | $125M | — | T. Rowe Price Associates, Koch Disruptive Technologies |
| March 30, 2017 | Series C | $73.5M | $0.78B | Microsoft, HPE |
| April 29, 2015 | Series B | $73.5M | — | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
Tobi Knaup
CEO & Co-Founder
Florian Leibert
Co-Founder (former CEO)
Benjamin Hindman
Co-Founder
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