Citybiz Interview with Nate Matherson, CEO of ContainIQ

Nate Matherson is the Co-founder & CEO of ContainIQ. Nate is an experienced entrepreneur having previously founded a venture-backed startup which was notably funded by Y Combinator and others. Outside of work, Nate is a member of the Board of Directors at the non-profit Blankets of Hope. Nate is also an active angel investor having invested in twenty-seven companies. Nate graduated from the University of Delaware in 2016 with a B.S. in Finance.

Interview questions:

Introduction | Can you provide an introduction to Contain IQ?

Solution | Please explain how the ContainIQ solution does what previously took engineering teams weeks.

Kubernetes | What are Kubernetes? how does ContainIQ help companies diagnose and solve issues faster?

Clients | Who are some of your clients ie. Lume, Mazuma-Go, Piepacker…

Seed Round | ContainIQ has raised a $2.5 million seed round. Can you tell us about the investors?

Co-Founder/Team |Matt Lenhard is your CTO and Co-Founder. Who are the key members of the team?

Growth | What are the growth plans for ContainIQ?

Angel Investor |You’re an active angel investor. Tell us about some of your most interesting angel investments.

The LendEDUStory | What are some of the high and low points of the LendEDU story?

Connect with Nate on LinkedIn

ContainIQ is a Kubernetes native monitoring and tracing platform. ContainIQ’s out-of-the-box solution provides a number of helpful tools including pod/node metrics, latency including by path/endpoint, Kubernetes events, and logs. Users can create alerts on most pieces of data inside ContainIQ. And it just takes a few minutes to set up with Kubectl apply or Helm.

ContainIQ largely targets small to midsize technology companies that are scaling their infrastructure. It is these companies who are looking for an immediate solution that doesn’t require ongoing maintenance from the engineering team.

ContainIQ has been live in the market since July of 2021, and users can sign-up on the website directly or by booking a demo.

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