Northflank: Two Teenagers Who Met in a Game Clan, Hosted Game Servers on Pocket Money, and Built a Kubernetes Platform Before Ever Meeting in Person
Will Stewart in London and Frederik Brix in Switzerland met through online multiplayer gaming in 2011, spent years deploying game servers on rented bare metal, and while at university began building a platform to automate deployment for any workload. They met face to face only in early 2019 at a The Family accelerator weekend in Paris, raised angel money, closed a round with Kindred Ventures entirely over Zoom, launched Northflank with a $2.6 million seed in July 2020 and, in November 2024, rais
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