DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, operates a developer-oriented cloud platform spanning virtual machines, managed databases, Kubernetes, application deployment and AI inference. Its technical work covers cloud computing infrastructure, container orchestration, platform-as-a-service tooling and the supporting developer tooling. The company describes its current focus as an "agentic cloud" for building and scaling AI-powered applications.

The product line began with Droplet, a virtual machine launchable in minutes, and has since broadened to include Managed Databases, a managed Kubernetes service, the App Platform for modern application deployment, and, most recently, the Gradient AI Inference Cloud. The company serves customers across cloud infrastructure, software development and artificial intelligence, with particular traction among startups and small and medium-sized businesses.

DigitalOcean reports more than 640,000 customers worldwide and a team of over 1,000 employees. It has operated for more than a decade and serves a range of builders, from students learning to code to rapidly scaling businesses. Its stated mission is to simplify cloud computing and AI so that builders can spend more time creating software, reflecting a deliberate focus on reducing complexity in the development process.