Tensor9, the company behind a new enterprise any-prem platform that enables SaaS vendors to sell to enterprise customers, announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Wing VC, with participation from Devang Sachdev and NVAngels, Level Up Ventures, and strategic angels with backgrounds at Google (Michael Stoppelman), Cockroach Labs (Spencer Kimball), Benchling (Amit Gupta), and Amazon (Gert Lanckriet).
What Tensor9 does: Tensor9 enables SaaS and AI vendors to deliver their full-stack applications directly into customer-owned environments: whether cloud-prem (in the customer’s cloud account), on-prem, or fully air-gapped. And this unlocks high-security and regulated markets like healthcare, financial services, bioinformatics, and government, without burdening the vendor with complex bespoke engineering.
The Tensor9 platform advances modern SaaS applications so that vendors can deploy them into customer environments with a single command, while maintaining observability, updateability, and secure operations. And at the heart of the system is a digital twin architecture that mirrors customer-owned infrastructure, enabling vendors to operate, troubleshoot, and iterate as if the software were running in their own cloud even when it is not.
Tensor9 was created by a team of early AWS S3 engineers. And the company has been working with vendors in devtools, enterprise databases and data management, AI applications processing sensitive data, and bioinformatics since launching early last year.
KEY QUOTES:
“Any-prem is becoming the new standard for enterprise software delivery. Just as SOC2 became table stakes for trust, enterprises are increasingly expecting software to run inside their own environment. We want to help vendors unlock new customers while focusing on their differentiated value.”
Michael Ten-Pow, co-founder and CEO of Tensor9
“Tensor9 is unlocking an entirely new route to market for enterprise software vendors. Their technology is deeply engineered and perfectly timed. Cloud-prem and Bring-Your-Own-Cloud is becoming a mission critical technology for AI, data and security vendors.”
Wing VC partner Chris Zeoli
