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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
- Fugue, a cloud OS startup raises 20M in series C. Link
- Zerto, an enterprise class BCDR, raises 50M in series E funding. Link
- Scalr, cloud performance monitoring tool for heterogeneous cloud, raises 7.35M. Link
- ActOnMagic, a cloud management startup raises Seed Funding. Link
- Google quietly launched its answer to Amazon’s Lambda. Link
SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND
Enteon (2015,St Louis) – offers products for clients who want more control over external cloud providers.
StackInsight (2015, Hyderabad) – offers an online platform to monitor,visualize and track cloud infrastructure costs on AWS
LEADER BOARD – CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
IaaS
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.
Cloud OS
Mirantis (1999, Mountain View, $220M) – Provides enterprise grade OpenStack distributions.Backed by Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital, Red Hat, Ericsson and SAP Ventures. IVP, Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson and Goldman Sachs.
Eucalyptus (2008, 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, $49M) – 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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