Nuon has announced $16.5 million in funding and the early access release of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform. Investors in this round include M12 (James Wu), Uncork Capital (Andy McLoughlin), Redpoint Ventures (Pat Chase), Alumni Ventures (Meera Oak), Essence VC (Timothy Chen), Mantis VC (Alex Pall), Red Swan Ventures (Sandy Cass) and angel investors Quinn Slack (CEO of SourceGraph), Richie Artoul (co-founder of WarpStream, acquired by Confluent) and Michael Grinich (CEO of WorkOS). And this funding will fuel product development, prepare for general availability in early 2025, and drive customer acquisition.
Nuon enables software companies to deliver SaaS-like experiences directly in customers’ cloud accounts — combining the compliance and security of self-hosted solutions with the ease of vendor-hosted software.
By meeting data sovereignty, security, and compliance demands, Nuon enables SaaS providers to expand into new customer segments and enhance product capabilities while generating additional revenue streams.
Modern business-to-business (B2B) software faces different challenges. Traditional SaaS deployments often require lengthy integrations and force customers to send their data to developer-controlled cloud accounts, leading to higher costs, reduced security, and inefficiency. And Nuon overcomes these issues by enabling software to move to the customer’s cloud environment instead of requiring data to move to the developer’s infrastructure. This approach blends the ease of SaaS with the control, compliance, and security enterprises demand.
Jon Morehouse is a serial entrepreneur and infrastructure expert with over a decade of experience building and scaling cloud technologies, including at companies like Amazon and BuzzFeed. And he founded Nuon (his fourth startup) in late 2021 when he was working on a developer-centric cloud platform and saw a larger opportunity: running software in the customer’s cloud.
Companies such as Databricks, Redpanda, and Retool already experimented with different application deployment approaches. Jon realized that the BYOC model was not just the best approach for deploying critical applications, but it would eventually become essential for almost every company. Conversations with founders confirmed this insight: many recognized the need for BYOC but were held back by its technical complexity.
Nuon’s mission is to make the Bring Your Own Cloud model accessible to software companies everywhere. This shift can transform software delivery, reshaping development, operations, data handling, and infrastructure. The rise of AI further accelerates the need for this model, making it a pivotal moment for the software industry.
Nuon is now powering a few dozen AI and data infrastructure companies that are already using the platform to deliver BYOC solutions. And the company plans to launch general availability by late Q1 2025.
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“In today’s enterprise software landscape, every company must answer the inevitable customer question: ‘Can this run in our cloud account? Nuon enables any company to offer the BYOC deployment model in minutes, unlocking new customers, meeting data sovereignty requirements, and more deeply integrating with customer data and LLMs.”
“When we set out to build Nuon, we knew that making a generalizable platform to offer BYOC was an enormous investment, and we had to approach BYOC from first principles while making it seamless for existing companies to offer it alongside their current SaaS offering. Our platform includes a control plane for managing customer installs, as well as APIs, SDKs and a CI/CD system for adding custom monitoring and debugging for day-2 operations.
- Nuon Founder and CEO Jon Morehouse
“Uncork Capital led Nuon’s seed funding round and participated in its Series A because we believe Jon’s vision that BYOC will fundamentally disrupt software deployment and become an industry standard. Nuon is poised to lead this shift and build a generational infrastructure company that rivals today’s hyper-scalers.”
- Andy McLoughlin, managing partner at Uncork Capital and a Nuon board member
