# Chris Aniszczyk

> Chris Aniszczyk is a seed investor at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) backing Information Technology. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cloud-native-computing-foundation)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cra
- Website: https://x.com/cra

Chris Aniszczyk is a seed investor at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Austin focused on Information Technology and Internet. Chris Aniszczyk is Chief Technology Officer at Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.6M–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 33% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Developer Tools | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 44% |
| Canada | 1 | 11% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Battlesnake | Battlesnake is a platform that allows people who wanted to know and try programming in a fun way. Battlesnake is used to learn new technologies, improve their skills, and have fun with friends and colleagues. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Battlesnake | Battlesnake is a platform that allows people who wanted to know and try programming in a fun way. Battlesnake is used to learn new technologies, improve their skills, and have fun with friends and colleagues. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Kubecost | Kubecost is a developer of a cost monitoring platform to help companies manage their Kubernetes resources and costs. Its platform also provides direct integrations with the Kubernetes API and cloud billing APIs, cost allocations for all key Kubernetes concepts, dynamic recommendations for optimizing cloud spend, and infrastructure assessmentservices helping clients to reduce spending and prevent resource-based outages. | $4M | Seed | Mar 23, 2021 |  |
| Orbit | Orbit grows and measures community across any platform . | $15M | Series A | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Golioth | Golioth is an IoT platform that empowers engineers to connect hardware to the cloud quickly and securely. With a single, unified API for connecting to the cloud, teams can go from prototype to production in minutes, not months.Think of Golioth as a universal connector. Whatever your hardware setup, we’ll make sure it connects seamlessly to yourideal stack, sends data to the cloud, keeps your product up to date over the air, and scales as you grow. Golioth helps you build securely from the start, from prototype through to production, even as your products evolve and change.With an elegant device SDK and multi-hardware, multi-protocol support Golioth connects you with the most popular cloud providers so you can update your devices from anywhere and control them from the cloud—with security built-in. If you are looking for a cloud-based, flexible IoT solution that can get you from prototype to production up to 30X times faster, and can scale more easily–plus keep it all secure–you’re looking for Golioth. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 18, 2021 |  |
| Golioth | Golioth is an IoT platform that empowers engineers to connect hardware to the cloud quickly and securely. With a single, unified API for connecting to the cloud, teams can go from prototype to production in minutes, not months.Think of Golioth as a universal connector. Whatever your hardware setup, we’ll make sure it connects seamlessly to yourideal stack, sends data to the cloud, keeps your product up to date over the air, and scales as you grow. Golioth helps you build securely from the start, from prototype through to production, even as your products evolve and change.With an elegant device SDK and multi-hardware, multi-protocol support Golioth connects you with the most popular cloud providers so you can update your devices from anywhere and control them from the cloud—with security built-in. If you are looking for a cloud-based, flexible IoT solution that can get you from prototype to production up to 30X times faster, and can scale more easily–plus keep it all secure–you’re looking for Golioth. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2021 |  |
| Orbit | Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, mission control for your community. | $4M | Seed | Dec 02, 2020 |  |
| Orbit | Orbit grows and measures community across any platform . | $4M | Seed | Dec 02, 2020 |  |
| OllyGarden | OllyGarden is an IT company that provides observability tools for telemetry optimization and monitoring data. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Harrison Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-metal-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zetta Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zetta-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of cloud native software stacks, including Kubernetesand Prometheus. CNCF serves as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors – including the world’s largest public cloud and enterprise software companies as well as dozens of innovative startups. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

5 contacts available at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Aniszczyk | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-aniszczyk |
| Yuri Shkuro | Jaeger - Creator, Maintainer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuri-shkuro |
| Cheryl Hung | Director, Ecosystem | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cheryl-hung-53e6 |
| Ihor Dvoretskyi | Developer Advocate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ihor-dvoretskyi |
| Janos Matyas | Contributor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janos-matyas |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Aniszczyk invest in?

Chris Aniszczyk invests primarily in Information Technology, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chris Aniszczyk's check size?

Chris Aniszczyk typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4M at Seed and $1.6M–$2.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Aniszczyk participates in.

### When did Chris Aniszczyk last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Aniszczyk closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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