Unikernel Systems acquired by Docker (via The New Stack) / Jan 2016
My startup
'Just like we did with containers, we are interested is democratizing that technology, making it available and useful to the millions of developers and IT pros out there, said Solomon Hykes, founder and chief technology officer for Docker. 'Unikernels allow you to basically get rid of the operating system, and instead compile into the application the small bits of the operating system it really needs.' -- The New Stack
You can also see an announcement from me explaining the background story: