It has been a truly amazing quarter for Heptio. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration and Heptio has stepped up as a partner to many Fortune 500 companies on their cloud native journey. It is hard to believe that we started the company less than two years ago given the size and strength of the team — we recently passed our 100 employee threshold.
Today we were listed as a winner of the CNBC Upstart 100 award, following on the heels of being recognized with the Seattle Tech Impact Gold Award (in the cloud category). These accolades are greatly appreciated and are a credit to the amazing folks that joined our company. Our collective mission is to make enterprise developers more intrinsically productive and to empower operators. And we believe that the best way to deliver that impact is through a highly consistent multi-cloud and on-premises computing environment without fear of vendor lock-in.
Since announcing HKS (Heptio Kubernetes Subscription) earlier this year, Heptio has been selected as a partner to organizations large and small to help them understand the technology, align it with their internal operating practices and provide the mission critical support needed to bring it into production. We are humbled that a company of our age and size has a customer base that includes 3 of the 4 largest retailers in the world, 4 of the 5 largest telecommunication companies in the United States, and several global financial services institutions. Working alongside these customers has been immensely rewarding and their experiences fuel our future direction.
Looking forward we will continue to drive innovation in the open source ecosystem, and will continue to invest heavily in the OSS projects we have already created (collectively they have garnered more than 4700 stars on Github). We have established a strong release cadence with our existing technologies (with recent community excitement around the release of Ark 0.9, and Contour 0.6). You can expect to see some interesting new capabilities being shipped in the not too distant future.
A big thank you to the whole team at Heptio for another successful quarter. I could not be more excited about the coming months and years!