Zerops s.r.o
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded2018 (2018) (public launch May 1, 2024; 4 months ago (2024-05-01))
Headquarters
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Aleš Rechtorík (CEO), Jan Saidl (CTO)
Websitezerops.io


Zerops is a cloud platform as a service company based in the Czech Republic. [1] A Dev-first PaaS that builds, deploys, runs, and manages apps. [2]

It was initially an internal tool used by VSHosting, then later shut down in late 2023. The platform was relaunched in May 2024 as a PaaS competing with other platforms like Render, Fly.io, Heroku, and DigitalOcean. [3]

History

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Zerops was mainly founded by Aleš Rechtorík (CEO) and Jan Saidl (CTO), along with other members of the VSHosting team. [4]

Originally founded in 2018, Zerops began as an internal project within vshosting.eu, the largest Central European provider of managed hosting services. As VSHosting continued to grow globally, Zerops became a less significant focus within the organization, leading to its shutdown in late 2023. [5]

A year later, the original development team, backed by Presto Ventures and Gi21, proudly took ownership of Zerops and relaunched the platform. [2]

Zerops raised $500k from Presto Ventures and Gi21 Capital while maintaining a strategic partnership with VSHosting's global parent company, Contabo Group (part of the KKR portfolio since 2022). [6]

Zerops' tech stack includes Golang, Angular, and LXC. [5]

Citations

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  1. ^ Adams, Lucy (June 20, 2024). "Zerops raises $500,000 Pre-seed for flexible developers' cloud". TechEu. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "A Dev-first PaaS that builds, deploys, runs, and manages apps". PrestoVentures. March 8, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  3. ^ Brejcak, Peter (June 20, 2024). "Startup Zerops was created as a spin-off of the web hosting company VSHosting". CzechCrunch. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  4. ^ Laoun, Joy (June 20, 2024). "Prague-based PaaS startup Zerops secures $500k from Presto Ventures and Gi21 Capital". Vestbee. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  5. ^ a b Rechtorik, Ales (June 10, 2024). "Zerops History". Zerops. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  6. ^ "Zerops Secures $500k Pre-Seed round to revolutionize the PaaS landscape". StartupKitchen. June 20, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024.