Clastix raises €2.9 million seed for its Kubernetes platform, its first outside funding

Clastix raises €2.9 million seed for its Kubernetes platform, its first outside funding

24 September 2026 — Clastix, a software company based in Naples, Italy, announced on 24 September 2026 a seed round of €2.9 million, which it describes as its first external funding.

Not yet independently verified. Both sources are the company’s own posts; no independent report was read. Investor names are given as the release prints them. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

The round

• Amount and stage: €2.9 million, seed, as stated by the company.
• Lead investor: CDP Venture Capital Sgr, Italy's state-backed venture investor.
• Co-investors named in the release: Mistral and VERTIS SGR, through its Vertis Venture 6 Digital Sud fund, which the release says is partly funded by NextGenerationEU.
• Use of the money: to expand the team and speed up growth of its Kubernetes infrastructure platform.

What the company does

Clastix works on Kubernetes, the open-source system for running containerised applications. It maintains two open-source projects: Kamaji, which runs Kubernetes control planes as hosted services so that a provider can offer many clusters cheaply, and Capsule, which lets many teams or customers share one cluster safely. Its commercial product, kMetal, is an enterprise Kubernetes platform built on these. In a follow-up post on 28 September, the founders tied the round to demand for infrastructure to run AI workloads.

Why it matters for buyers

Hosting providers, telecoms and large companies that run their own Kubernetes for many teams face the cost of operating hundreds of clusters. Tools that share or host control planes reduce that cost. The round also fits a wider European push for cloud infrastructure that is not dependent on the largest US providers.

What to check

• Platform teams should look at the open-source projects' release activity and governance, and which features are only in the commercial product.
• Service providers should ask about support terms and the company's capacity for enterprise support at its size.

Sources

• Clastix: Clastix receives seed investment to control and scale cloud infrastructures — 24 September 2026
• Clastix: Why we received €2.9 million seed funding to build the AI infrastructure layer — 28 September 2026