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Solo.io wins ‘most likely to succeed’ award at VB Transform 2025 innovation showcase

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Cambridge, Mass.-based Solo.io was awarded “Most Likely to Succeed” at the Innovation Showcase at VB Transform in San Francisco on June 25.

Founded in 2017, the cloud-native application networking company — which raised $135 million in a Series C round in 2021 and is valued at $1 billion — provides tools for connecting, securing and observing modern applications, particularly those built on Kubernetes and microservices.

Introducing Kagent Studio

The company’s Kagent platform is a first-of-its-kind cloud native framework that helps DevOps and platform engineers build and run AI agents in Kubernetes. During the Innovation Showcase at this year’s VB Transform, the company announced the launch of Kagent Studio, a framework that allows enterprises to build, secure, run and manage their AI agents in Kubernetes.

Keith Babo, the company’s CPO, presented the new offering from VB Transform’s main stage. He said the framework aims to address platform engineering challenges by offering features including:

Native VSCode extension integration

Real-time incident response capabilities

Bilateral communication between workplace communications platforms such as Slack and Teams and the integrated development environment (IDE)

Automated root cause analysis generation

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