Moving service networking beyond DNS and middle boxes

Junction Labs mission is to empower platform builders with a service networking platform that that bridges the developer-operator divide.

We are a small team of system software engineers based out of NYC, working heavily in Rust. Our founders Ian Nowland and Ben Linsay have 40 years of combined experience, with 10 years learning to be scrappy at startups, and 20 learning from the scale and complexity of Two Sigma, AWS and Datadog.

Our investors include Vertex Ventures, Essence, and Exceptional Capital. Our angels include Oliver Pommel (founder Datadog), Chris Riccomini (creator of Apache Samza), David Crawshaw (founder Tailscale) and Richie Artoul (founder Warpstream).