Upbound is building a new open source project called Modelplane on the Crossplane project to solve open weights tipping the market horizontal and tradeoffs organizations face around running their own intelligence.

Upbound empowers infrastructure and platform teams with intelligent control planes, based on Kubernetes and Crossplane, that provision, operate, and adapt, ensuring your platforms are ready for both humans and agents. Upbound is the creator and maintainer of the popular open source project Crossplane, a framework for building cloud native control planes. The company is a Series B startup and has raised $69M in total funding. Upbound’s investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital and Intel Capital. For more information, please visit upbound.io.