Raleigh, NC – April 29, 2025 – Cloud infrastructure is the backbone of modern software, but building scalable, portable, and secure applications across cloud, server, and edge environments remains notoriously complex. Enter Cosmonic. Founded by infrastructure innovators and now backed by a $945,000 bridge round led by the Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN) and Harbright Ventures, Cosmonic is redefining distributed application development. Harnessing wasmCloud, an open-source platform built on WebAssembly (Wasm), Cosmonic empowers global enterprises—including American Express, Adobe, Manulife, and Capital One—to deploy resilient, zero-latency applications at scale. Today, Cosmonic operates as a fully remote team, but as the company expands, it plans to grow its presence across the Triangle—where CTO Bailey Hayes and Senior Technical Writer Eric Gregory, both NC State alumni, are based—to strengthen ties to the region’s tech ecosystem and access top engineering talent.

Today’s cloud application development is burdened by complexity, fragmentation, vendor lock-in, and costs. Developers face time-consuming configurations, insecure deployment models, and limited scalability. Cosmonic, built on wasmCloud, addresses these challenges by reducing costs through increased resource efficiency and lower maintenance overhead. It enables agile, lightweight deployments and ensures portability across cloud and edge environments while providing extensibility that traditional platforms cannot match.

“Cosmonic could be the next step in the evolution of cloud, server, and edge computing—like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) was for Linux and OpenShift for Kubernetes,” said WIN Member Beth Smith, “Their opportunity is to define the next generation of developer infrastructure with portability, scalability, and simplicity at its core.”

Cosmonic combines the best of all worlds, eliminating traditional trade-offs by creating a critical layer in the cloud-native stack where performance, portability, and simplicity converge. Leveraging wasmCloud—an open-source project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation—Cosmonic enables developers to build polyglot applications composed of reusable WebAssembly (Wasm) components. These applications run efficiently and seamlessly across any cloud, Kubernetes cluster, datacenter, or edge environment. Through its flagship product, Cosmonic Control, purpose-built for platform teams, Cosmonic reduces operational overhead, guarantees zero cold starts, and empowers enterprises to deploy resilient, highly performant applications at scale—ensuring exceptional user experiences across cloud, server, and edge environments.

“Partnering with WIN and Harbright strengthens our connection to the NC State community and supports our mission to scale Cosmonic into a leader in cloud-native infrastructure,” said Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall. 

Bailey Hayes, CTO at Cosmonic and an NC State Computer Science alumna, is a recognized WebAssembly thought leader. She serves as TSC director at the Bytecode Alliance and co-chair of the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), placing her at the forefront of secure, portable computing. With over a decade of engineering leadership, she has been instrumental in driving Cosmonic’s technical innovation and open-source momentum.

Randall continued, ”Bailey Hayes’ leadership—shaped by her NC State roots—has been foundational to Cosmonic’s engineering culture and technical vision.”

“In short, think of Cosmonic this way: cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or Google are the roads, wasmCloud is the versatile vehicle that smoothly navigates any road, and Cosmonic is the intuitive driver’s seat and dashboard, simplifying how you deploy and manage your wasmCloud apps,” said Robert Ross of Harbright.

WIN’s investment in Cosmonic marks another milestone in its mission to support NC State-affiliated startups that drive innovation.