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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
- Mesosphere, a data center operating system, raised $73.5M in Series C led by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Microsoft. Link
- Spotinst, a cloud utilization optimization company, raised Series A financing round led by PICO Venture Partners. Link
- Accelerite, a Cloud and mobility infrastructure software provider, finalizes acquisition of Citrix cloud products.Link
- Intralinks, an inter-enterprise content management and collaboration solutions company, acquires Cloud Infrastructure company Verilume. Link
- Apple signs up to Google’s Cloud Services. Link
- Egenera, a DCIM software company introduces CloudMigrate for Xterity Cloud. Link
- CenturyLink, a worldwide communications company launched government cloud product. Link
SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND
ParkMyCloud (2015, Dulles, $300K) – Switches off AWS infrastructure when not in use, resulting in significant cost reduction.Backed by White Hall Capital.
ASCAMSO (2015, Frankfurt) – Compares prices of various cloud providers and provides bench-marking among the services of different cloud service providers.
LEADER BOARD – CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Horizontal
AWS (2006, Seattle, IPO) – Provides remote computing as web services. Backed by the retail giant Amazon.com. Amazon.com went public in May 1997.
Azure (2010, Redmond, IPO) – Provides an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform.Backed by Microsoft. Microsoft went public in March 1986.
Google Cloud Platform (2008, Mountain View, IPO) – Provides a cloud computing platform that offers hosting on the same supporting infrastructure that Google uses.Backed by the search engine giant Google. Google went public in August 2004.
IAAS
Digital Ocean (2011, NYC, 173M) – Offers cloud infrastructure as a service.Its products range from bare metal servers to virtualized infrastructure. Backed by accessindustries, a16z, IA Ventures, CrunchFund and Techstars
Bracket Computing (2011,Sunnyvale, 130M) – Offers virtual infrastructure software for hybrid cloud environment. Backed by Fidelity, GoldmanSachs, Allegis Capital, a16z, ARTIS Ventures, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures
Cloud OS
Mirantis (1999, Mountain View, $220M) – Provides enterprise grade OpenStack distributions. Backed by Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and West Summit Capital, Red Hat, SAP Ventures, IVP, Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson and Goldman Sachs.
Eucalyptus (2009, Goleta, $55.5M, Acq.) – Provides free and open-source computer software for building Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible private and hybrid cloud. Acquired by HP in September 2014.
Mesosphere (2013, SF, $122M) – Provides a distributed operating system, based on Apache Mesos. Backed by Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Fuel Capital, Andersson Howritz, DCVC. KPCB, Foundation Capital.
Cloud Management Platform
ScienceLogic (2003, Reston, $84M) – Provides IT monitoring platform for hybrid cloud infrastructure.Backed by Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, NEA.
RightScale (2006, Santa Barbara, $58M) – Provides multi cloud management platform for hybrid cloud environments.Backed by DAG Ventures, Benchmark, Index Ventures, Presidio Ventures, Tenaya Capital.
Cloud Migration
Avepoint (2001, Jersey City, $90M) – Provides software solutions to migrate legacy systems to Sharepoint servers.Backed by Goldman Sachs and Summit Partners.
CloudVelox (2010, Santa Clara, $33M) – Developed automated cloud migration solution. Backed by Third Point Ventures, Mayfield,Pelion Ventures.
BackOffice Associates (1996, South Harwich, $30M) – Provider of data migration and information governance solutions. Backed by Goldman Sachs.
Cloud Integration
MuleSoft (2006, SF, $259M) – SaaS based Integration platform for connecting enterprise applications. Backed by Cisco Investments, ServiceNow, Morgenthaler, Lightspeed VP, Brookside Capital, Adage Capital, SalesForce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, NEA, Meritech Capital, HWVP, Bay Partners.
Cloud Analytics
SignalFX (2013, San Mateo, $28.5M) – Time series DB based advanced monitering and analytics platform for applications and infrastructure. Backed by CRV and a16z.
AccelOps (2007, Santa Clara, $25M) – Provides analytics-driven IT Operations Management. Backed by ATA Ventures, US Ventures, Miramar VP.
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