2I2C

What 2I2C does

2i2c is a US-based non-profit organization founded in 2020 that operates managed cloud infrastructure for research and education communities. The organization's core platform is built on JupyterHub deployed on Kubernetes clusters, providing scalable compute environments ranging from laptop-class instances to GPU-accelerated workloads. Each community receives a dedicated hub with custom environments, managed access control, resource and user management, interactive computing interfaces, and integrated monitoring. Supporting tooling includes Dask Gateway for distributed computing, home directory quota management, cloud cost monitoring via Grafana, GPU time-sharing (Time Slicing, MIG, MPS), and content synchronization tools like nbgitpuller. The organization also operates BinderHub infrastructure as part of the mybinder.org federation and maintains infrastructure for Jupyter Book/MyST documentation tooling.

2i2c serves universities, research institutions, government agencies, and open source scientific communities. Its 90+ member communities include NASA, the Smithsonian, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Center for Atmospheric Science, Pangeo, the University of Toronto, Columbia University, and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), spanning more than 15 countries and serving over 6,500 active users. The platform differentiates itself from commercial cloud providers through its "Right to Replicate" policy, which guarantees communities can migrate their infrastructure without lock-in, and through its active contribution back to upstream open source projects, with 2,000+ pull requests contributed to JupyterHub, Jupyter Book, and related projects.

Revenue is generated through a combination of recurring membership subscriptions (Starter, General, and Premier tiers) and grants from philanthropic funders including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and The Navigation Fund. The organization distributes its services through direct membership sales and referrals within its member network, with marketing driven primarily by content (blog, newsletter), open source contribution, and conference presence (JupyterCon, FOSDEM). Annual planning, KPIs, and operational processes are documented publicly in the 2i2c Team Compass, reflecting a high-transparency operating model.

Name

2I2C

Legal name

2i2c

Website

https://2i2c.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

2i2c is a non-profit that operates managed JupyterHub cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes for research and education communities, serving 90+ communities and 6,500+ users across 15+ countries through membership subscriptions and grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Research Computing Cloud Infrastructure

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDABABAC

Kubernetes & Container Platform Management (Private Cloud)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cloud & Data Center Infrastructure/Private Cloud & Cloud Management Platforms

SECONDARYHDABADAF

Container Platforms & Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cloud & Data Center Infrastructure/Compute Infrastructure (Servers, Virtualization, Containers)

SECONDARYBPAEACAD

Cloud-Native Development (Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices)

Business & Public Services/IT & Digital Services (Managed Services, Systems Integration)/Cloud Services & Cloud Migration

SECONDARYHDABAJAF

Cloud-Native/Kubernetes Observability

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cloud & Data Center Infrastructure/Observability, Monitoring & AIOps for Cloud

Keywords

• Managed cloud infrastructure
• Research computing platforms
• JupyterHub hosting
• Open source infrastructure
• Interactive computing environments

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Organizations pay membership fees to access the hub platform and join the 2i2c network. Membership tiers include General, Starter, and Premier memberships with varying levels of service, support, and development collaboration.
2. Grants and Philanthropy: 2i2c receives grant funding from organizations like CZI (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative), The Navigation Fund, and NASA to support organizational capacity, sustainability development, and specific project work.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

2i2c operates managed cloud infrastructure for research and education communities, delivering dedicated JupyterHub environments on Kubernetes with scalable compute (from laptops to GPUs), custom environments built via repo2docker, managed access control, per-user cloud cost monitoring, and integrated open source tooling. The organization serves over 90 community hubs and 6,500+ active users across 15+ countries, and actively contributes to upstream open source projects including JupyterHub, Jupyter Book/MyST, and BinderHub. Membership is offered in tiered subscriptions (Starter, General, Premier) complemented by grant funding from philanthropic partners.

Product overview

2I2C is a non-profit organization that operates shared cloud infrastructure for research and education communities. The core offering consists of Community Hubs built on JupyterHub, providing scalable compute environments with custom environments, managed access control, and options from laptops to GPUs. A complementary service is BinderHub infrastructure, part of the mybinder.org federation, enabling reproducible environments from GitHub repositories. These are supported by documentation tools including Jupyter Book/MyST for computational publishing, and integrated components like Dask Gateway for distributed computing, GPU computing capabilities with NVIDIA T4 support, home directory storage management via jupyterhub-home-nfs, and cloud cost monitoring through jupyterhub-cost-monitoring. Additional tooling includes nbgitpuller for content synchronization, clinder for BinderHub CI workflows, and myst-listing for content galleries. The organization serves over 90 community hubs with more than 6,500 active users across 15 countries, contributing over 2,000 upstream pull requests.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• JupyterHub Infrastructure

Quantifiable outcome

• 90+ communities served with hub infrastructure
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFirst premier member organization. Co-designing member services, technical collaboration on JupyterHub development, cloud infrastructure improvements, and strategic input on open source direction. BIDS is the birthplace of mybinder.org and has been a leader in supporting open source projects like NumPy, scikit-image, NetworkX, and JupyterHub.
• JupyterHub CommunitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner2i2c team members are active maintainers and contributors to JupyterHub. Jenny Wong was invited to join the JupyterHub team as contributor and maintainer. Yuvi Panda contributed the pr-triage-board-bot for scaling maintainer intuition. 2i2c operates mybinder.org as part of the BinderHub federation.
• Jupyter Book / MyST CommunitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner2i2c team members (Chris Holdgraf, Angus Hollands) actively contribute to Jupyter Book 2 development. Contributed myst-listing plugin, accessibility improvements, multi-repo site support, and documentation refactoring. 2i2c manages jupyterbook.org infrastructure.
• NASA (Various Programs)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNASA VEDA project collaborates deeply with 2i2c on infrastructure and development. NASA SMCE provided $2k for cloud infrastructure for IHDEA working group. NASA Openscapes Champions program uses 2i2c infrastructure for workshops. NASA TOPS-T award funded ScienceCore curriculum and shared infrastructure.
• CloudBankmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducation-focused organization running 70+ JupyterHubs for community colleges. Collaborated on enabling self-service Terraform infrastructure management. Partnered with 2i2c on GPU workshop for CloudBank Classroom at NAIRR Annual Meeting.
• Development SeedmajorTechnology or IntegrationCollaborated with 2i2c on cloud cost monitoring by user groups (Grafana dashboards). Contributed to core dump cleanup solution for Kubernetes. Working with NASA VEDA project on shared infrastructure improvements.
• Project PythiamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGeoscience education community. Collaborated on rebuilding Pythia Cookbook Gallery using MyST tooling. Supports much of 2i2c's upstream Jupyter Book contributions. Shares learning with other 2i2c communities like ICESat-2 Hackweeks.
• CryoCloudmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCryosphere research community. Identified core dump disk usage issue that led to solution benefiting all communities (saved 717GB). Shares learnings with other 2i2c communities about JupyterHub operations and community building.
• OpenScapesmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNASA Champions program host using 2i2c infrastructure for workshops. Co-developed shared password authentication for workshops. Contributed documentation improvements to jupyter-sshd-proxy tool.
• The CarpentriesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the CZI Catalyzing Global Communities grant collaboration with CSCCE, IOI, MetaDocencia, Open Life Science, and 2i2c to provide cloud infrastructure and training.
• EarthScope ConsortiummajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGeophysics research organization. Original implementation of OAuth token passing pattern that was adapted by MAAP. Contributed to Jupyter Book improvements and MyST tooling.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Quansight: Provides consulting and managed services around open source scientific computing tools (NumPy, SciPy, Jupyter). Comparable as an open source-focused service provider in the scientific Python ecosystem.
• Saturn Cloud: Commercial provider of managed Jupyter environments and Dask clusters on cloud infrastructure. Emerging player with overlapping target market (data scientists) and technology stack, but a for-profit business model versus 2i2c's non-profit approach.
• Curvenote: Active in the Jupyter Book and MyST ecosystem that 2i2c contributes to, offering computational publishing tools. Adjacent emerging player in the same open source documentation community.
• Coiled: Provides managed Dask cloud computing for data science and research workloads, with JupyterHub integration. Comparable in the distributed computing layer of 2i2c's stack, though serving commercial customers primarily.

Direct peers

• ACCESS (formerly XSEDE): U.S. academic cyberinfrastructure providing advanced computing, data, and visualization resources to researchers and educators. Most directly comparable to 2i2c as a non-commercial, federally funded cloud/compute provider for the research and education community.
• CloudBank: Operates JupyterHub infrastructure for community colleges; 2i2c itself runs ~70 JupyterHubs for CloudBank Classroom. Direct peer in providing managed academic cloud access and computational resources for education.
• Jetstream2 (Indiana University / TACC): NSF-funded cloud environment for interactive computing and data analysis for the U.S. research community. Direct peer offering managed Jupyter environments on cloud infrastructure for researchers.

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud (Research/Education programs): Provides cloud infrastructure for research and education, including the NAIRR pilot referenced in 2i2c's GPU workshop. Broad incumbent whose commercial cloud offerings overlap with 2i2c's managed JupyterHub service, but with greater scale and proprietary features.
• Microsoft Azure for Research: Provides cloud computing resources and AI tools to academic researchers through programs like Azure for Education and Microsoft Academic. Broad incumbent in research cloud infrastructure.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Research: Hyperscaler offering managed research computing services including SageMaker and education credit programs. Broad incumbent competing for the same research and education cloud infrastructure budget.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/2i2c_org
• GitHubgithub.com/2i2c-org

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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