Port.io

Port was founded in 2022 by Zohar Einy and Yonatan Erlich. The company operates as a private startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, focusing entirely on the platform engineering domain. In 2023, the company announced an $18M funding round. The core product is a SaaS-based Internal Developer Portal (IDP).

Port provides an Internal Developer Portal designed to reduce cognitive load for software developers and streamline operations for DevOps and platform teams. The platform functions as a centralized software catalog and self-service hub. Instead of directly interacting with underlying infrastructure or custom scripts, developers use Port to trigger infrastructure provisioning, execute deployments, and manage access requests. The system relies heavily on direct integrations with standard DevOps toolchains, including Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab, ArgoCD, Datadog, and Jira.

The company operates within the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) category. Its primary open-source alternative is Backstage, originally developed by Spotify and now managed by the CNCF. In the commercial space, Port competes directly with vendors such as Cortex and OpsLevel. Port positions itself as a highly flexible, no-code/low-code alternative to Backstage, emphasizing a faster initial setup process without requiring dedicated engineering teams to manage and build plugins for open-source infrastructure.

Port's research and development operations are based in Tel Aviv. Both founders are Israeli, and the majority of the core engineering, product management, and design teams are located in Israel. The company focuses its local hiring primarily on backend and frontend software engineers, platform engineering specialists, and go-to-market roles targeting global customers.