What Makara does

Makara is a private, for-profit company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, that built a cloud application platform for organizations running Java and PHP workloads. Per its own description, the platform enabled organizations to provision, deploy, manage, monitor and scale their Java and PHP applications across public and private cloud environments, positioning Makara as an early-generation Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider targeting enterprise and mid-market developers in those language ecosystems.

Makara's capital history is sparse: the company raised an undisclosed seed round from Shasta Ventures in February 2008 around its founding, followed by a $6.4 million round led by Sierra Ventures in January 2009, and a further undisclosed round from 10X Capital in April 2021. There is a roughly 12-year gap between the Sierra Ventures round and the 2021 capital event, during which no funding, acquisitions, product launches, partnerships, or leadership changes are documented in the available data. The company's leadership surface is limited to a single disclosed executive, Jimmy Guerrero, Vice President of Marketing. There are no documented customer logos, pricing models, distribution channels, awards, patents, regulatory actions, or M&A activity in the supplied material.

Given the absence of public traction signals post-2009 and the nature of the 2021 capital event (undisclosed amount, single investor, no accompanying press), the available evidence is consistent with a company that either significantly contracted, pivoted, or wound down primary operations after an early-stage PaaS attempt. Most structured input fields (revenue, subsidiaries, social profiles, integrations, certifications, geographic footprint) are empty or marked undetermined, reinforcing that the public information set is thin.

Name

Makara

Website

https://makara.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Makara, founded in 2008 in Redwood City, California, provided a cloud application platform for provisioning, deploying, managing, monitoring, and scaling Java and PHP workloads on public and private clouds. The company is privately held with 11-50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Application Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD)

Keywords

• Java application deployment
• PHP application deployment
• Cloud application platform
• PaaS solutions
• Cloud monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Core offering

Makara provides a cloud application platform that enables organizations to provision, deploy, manage, monitor, and scale their Java and PHP applications across public and private cloud environments. The platform is positioned as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) layer that abstracts underlying cloud infrastructure for application development and operations teams.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Makara Cloud Application Platform

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Engine Yard: Engine Yard was a managed PaaS focused on PHP, Ruby and Node application deployment, scaling and monitoring, making it a direct competitive peer in the multi-language app platform space.
• AppFog: AppFog provided a multi-language PaaS (Java, PHP, Node, etc.) with provisioning and scaling on multiple clouds, positioning it as a direct competitor to Makara in the late-2000s/early-2010s market.
• Heroku: Heroku is a managed application platform supporting multiple languages including Java and PHP, with provisioning, deployment, scaling and monitoring features that directly overlap with Makara's stated value proposition.
• Cloud Foundry: Cloud Foundry is an open-source PaaS for deploying and scaling Java (and other) applications across public and private clouds, making it a direct functional peer to Makara's hybrid PaaS.
• Jelastic: Jelastic is a managed PaaS with strong emphasis on Java and PHP runtimes, offering automated scaling, deployment, and hybrid cloud support that closely mirrors Makara's offering.
• Pivotal Web Services / Pivotal Cloud Foundry: Pivotal offered commercial Cloud Foundry-based PaaS for Java and polyglot enterprise applications, making it a closely comparable direct peer in the Java-centric enterprise PaaS market.

Broad incumbents

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk: AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a managed service for deploying and scaling Java, PHP and other applications, placing it in the same category as Makara's offering but backed by the AWS ecosystem.
• Google App Engine: Google App Engine is a hyperscaler managed application platform supporting Java and other runtimes with built-in scaling and monitoring, representing a broad incumbent competing for the same workloads.
• Microsoft Azure App Service: Azure App Service is a hyperscaler managed platform for hosting Java, PHP and other web applications with built-in scaling and monitoring, functioning as a broad incumbent competing for the same workloads.
• OpenShift (Red Hat): OpenShift is an enterprise Kubernetes application platform from Red Hat/IBM that supports Java, PHP and other runtimes across hybrid clouds; it operates as a broad incumbent in the same category as Makara.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Makara