Companies to Watch: Private CompaniesBy TR Editors
Name: 10gen, www.10gen.com Year Founded: 2008 Number of Employees: 8 Major Investors: Union Square Ventures Total Invested: $1.5 million Key Product: MongoDB Technology: Sponsors an open-source database that makes cloud applications easier to build. Name: 3Tera, www.3tera.com Year Founded: 2004 Number of Employees: 30 Major Investors: Undisclosed Total Invested: Undisclosed Key Product: AppLogic Technology: Allows customers to move data and applications easily between its cloud platform and private data centers. Name: Appistry, www.appistry.com Year Founded: 2001 Number of Employees: 35 Major Investors: Stuart Mill Venture Partners Total Invested: $23 million Key Product: Appistry CloudIQ Technology: Makes it possible to move business functions to a cloud while keeping existing systems. Name: Elastra, www.elastra.com Year Founded: 2007 Number of Employees: 35 Major Investors: Amazon, Bay Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Total Invested: $14.6 million Key Product: Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server Technology: Helps businesses use public clouds in concert with their internal IT setups. Name: Enomaly, www.enomaly.com Year Founded: 2004 Number of Employees: 20 Major Investors: Intel Total Invested: Undisclosed Key Product: Elastic Computing Platform Technology:Creates tools that give customers the freedom to change cloud providers. Name: XCalibre, www.flexiscale.com Year Founded: 1997 Number of Employees: 26 Major Investors: Funded by revenue Total Invested: N/A Key Product: FlexiScale Technology: Helps European startups comply with data protection and export regulations. Name: Heroku, www.heroku.com Year Founded: 2007 Number of Employees: 11 Major Investors: Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator Total Invested: $3 million Key Product: Heroku Technology: Allows rapid deployment of systems based on Ruby on Rails, a popular way of building Web applications. Name: RightScale, www.rightscale.com Year Founded: 2006 Number of Employees: 100 Major Investors: Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures Total Invested: $22.2 million Key Product: RightScale Cloud Management Platform Technology: Provides essential hand-holding for companies wanting to run applications on a variety of public and private clouds. Name: Joyent, www.joyent.com Year Founded: 2004 Number of Employees: 25 Major Investors: Seed investment from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel Total Invested: Undisclosed Key Product: Accelerator, Connector Technology: Provides on-demand storage and computing services for Web-application developers. Name: ServePath, www.gogrid.com Year Founded: 1994 Number of Employees: 100+ Major Investors: Funded by revenue Total Invested: N/A Key Product: GoGrid Technology: Hopes to beat Amazon by wooing IT administrators with management software that behaves more like the tools they are already familiar with. Read more:
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