In a sector historically dominated by proprietary solutions, Plakar intends to break with established standards. The young shoot develops an open source platform for backing and restoring data, in a context where digital resilience becomes a systemic issue.
Plakar tackles a long -term difficulty relegated to the background, the ability to effectively restore data in an understandable and portable format, where existing approaches favor volumetry or automation to the detriment of readability and control.
The strategy consists in reconciling simplicity of use and technical mastery, by primarily targeting DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure engineers. The solution aims to be self-specificable, auditable and interoperable. A positioning which is part of a broader movement of redefinition of the standards of observibility, resilience and digital sovereignty in the post-key era.
Functionalities thought for the AI era and modern workloads
In a context where systems based on artificial intelligence produce and treat massive volumes of data, the protection and integrity of these data become critical. It is this need that Plakar aims to fill with a technical and pragmatic approach.
The platform offers in particular:
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- Immutable and encrypted backupsto guarantee data integrity.
- Advanced storage efficiencythanks to rates of UNFORAVED DEDULATION AND COMPRESSION.
- Requestable backupsallowing to inspect the data with their application context, without having to launch a full restoration.
- Native portabilityto move backups between environments (Cloud, Local, Kubernetes, etc.) in all fluidity.
Thought for developers, Plakar adopts a logic Clinwith transparent integration into modern infrastructure: Cloud storage, S3 protocols, local servers or Kubernetes volumes.
The source code is available publicly, and the team is working on an additional commercial base, based on an open core logic: accommodation, premium support, and advanced functions.
A tech community as an adoption lever
Behind Plakar, founded in 2024, two recognized figures of the open source infrastructure ecosystem: Gilles Chehadeex-VP Engineering of Clever Cloud and long-standing contributor to critical projects, and Julien MANGEARDformer exoscale CTO. Their ambition: to build a standard of confidence for backup, in line with what Terraform or Docker have represented in their respective segments.
The startup is supported by emblematic founders of open source (Solomon Hykes founder of Docker), monitoring (Olivier Pomel de Datadog) or Cloud (Pierre Betouin, ex-Cybelangel).
Fundraising and key information
Plakar raised 2.8 million euros in pre-boring. This tour brings together several leading investors: Seedcamp,, Kima Ventures,, helloworld,, Galion.exe,, Irregular expressions,, OPRTRS Club,, Purple,, Pareto Holdingsas well as a circle of influential business angels, among which Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Solomon Hykes (Docker), Alexandre Yazdi (Voodoo), Amirhossein Malekzadeh (Daphni) and Pierre Betouin (ex-Cybelangel).
The project plans to launch its first commercial offers in 2025, priority intended for technological startups and European SMEs with high digital intensity.
