CoreOS Adds $28 Million in Series B Funding

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CoreOS Adds $28 Million in Series B Funding from Leading Venture Capital Firms to Deploy, Manage and Secure Containers Anywhere

 

San Francisco and BerlinMay 9, 2016 — In validation that hyperscale, container-enabled infrastructure will lead the next computing phase of enterprise companies, CoreOS, Inc. today announced it has received $28 million in Series B funding to support rapid expansion from a consortium of investors led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). Intel Capital participated in the round, as well as existing investors Accel, Fuel Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Y Combinator Continuity Fund and others, bringing the company’s funding to date to $48 million.

CoreOS, a leader in deploying, managing and securing software containers, will use the additional funding to continue development of its solutions that enhance delivery of Google’s Infrastructure For Everyone Else (GIFEE), as well as to grow its team in the United States and Europe, hiring for its offices in San Francisco, New York and Berlin.

“For sophisticated enterprises, the inclusion of a container-based approach is inevitable,” said Dave Munichiello, General Partner at GV. “Software containers empower development teams to focus on building great applications without regard for the underlying IT infrastructure. CoreOS’s Tectonic product packages Google’s Kubernetes for enterprises, enabling them to run applications seamlessly across public and private clouds and their own data centers. With CoreOS, now the rest of the Fortune 500 has access to a fully-supported version of the same secure, resilient, highly-available approach that the best web-scale businesses use daily.”

CoreOS plans to continue building and delivering its full enterprise solution Tectonic, the enterprise Kubernetes distribution for running and managing application container clusters, and the Quay container registry. CoreOS will continue leading development of its open source projects that are securing the Internet including CoreOS Linux, the lightweight Linux operating system; etcd, the distributed, consistent key-value store; rkt, the container engine alternative to Docker; and Clair, the container image security analyzer. These key components developed by CoreOS in collaboration with the greater open source community are a part of delivering GIFEE to enterprises.

Tectonic, the completely supported technology stack for deploying containers in production, is built on CoreOS Linux and the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator and packages an array of tools for deploying, monitoring, and managing applications and infrastructure. With support from Intel, Tectonic will help make OpenStack on Kubernetes ready to deploy and manage for the enterprise.

“Hyperscale build-outs have been a key accelerator of server volume growth in recent years, and next generation applications is one key workload helping drive that growth. We find enterprise customers are increasingly interested shifting their focus from maintaining legacy applications to developing new applications and Web services using modern infrastructure software,” said Al Gillen, group vice president, enterprise infrastructure at IDC. “Standing up modern applications requires a full infrastructure software stack that includes, but goes well beyond container packaging technology. More complete solutions, such as those CoreOS offers, help to unlock this new class of capabilities and benefits for leading enterprises to run their business.”

“We are in the middle of an important transition in the next major phase in enterprise computing since virtualization and cloud, where enterprises are on the path to embracing Google-style infrastructure,” said Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS. “Kubernetes is on point to be as ubiquitous as Linux. With this investment, CoreOS is at the forefront of bringing GIFEE to enterprises by providing the most advanced and secure Kubernetes distribution.”

“Enterprises are looking to adopt some of the IT best practices of hyperscale cloud providers to deliver lower cost of ownership and high agility,” said Jason Waxman, corporate vice president of the Data Center Group at Intel Corp. “Intel’s investment and collaboration with CoreOS will accelerate the efficiency, security, and consistency of hyperscale computing for the broader industry.”

CoreOS is celebrating its open source community at CoreOS Fest in Berlin, May 9-10, and San Francisco, May 9.

Additional supporting quotes:“Data center infrastructure is ready for a renaissance that makes hyperscale a possibility for any business,” said Michael Abbott, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). “We are strategically continuing investment in CoreOS because this team has the unique knowledge and skill to build enterprise products, including Tectonic, that deliver dynamic infrastructure capabilities required for businesses to stay competitive.”

“CoreOS represents a fundamental shift in infrastructure technology that only comes around once a decade,” said Jonathan Lehr, Managing Director of Work-Bench Ventures. “CoreOS is enabling enterprises to be more agile by taking advantage of container-enabled infrastructure, and we are looking forward to supporting the company in its disruptive growth and in delivering GIFEE.”

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About CoreOS, Inc.CoreOS, Inc. runs the world’s containers securely on CoreOS, Tectonic and Quay. CoreOS is the creator of Tectonic, the universal Kubernetes solution that combines Google’s Kubernetes and the CoreOS stack to deploy, manage and secure containers anywhere. CoreOS’s Quay technology allows companies to securely store Linux containers in private hosted repositories or behind customer’s firewalls. In addition, CoreOS is the creator and maintainer of open source projects CoreOS Linux, etcd, fleet, flannel and rkt. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience. Learn more at https://coreos.com/ or follow CoreOS on Twitter @coreoslinux.

About Intel CapitalIntel Capital, Intel’s strategic investment and M&A organization, backs innovative technology startups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of hardware, software, and services companies targeting computing and smart devices, cloud, datacenter, security, the Internet of Things, wearable and robotic technologies and semiconductor manufacturing. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$11.7 billion in 1,445 companies in 57 countries. In that timeframe, 212 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world, and 383 were acquired or participated in a merger. Through its business development programs, I
ntel Capital curates thousands of meetings each year between its portfolio and Intel’s partners in the Global 2000. For more information on what makes Intel Capital one of the world’s most powerful venture capital firms, visit www.intelcapital.com or follow @Intelcapital.

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Allena Pharmaceuticals secures $15MM series A funding

NEWTON, Mass. – November 16, 2011 – Allena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company developing and commercializing innovative non-systemic oral protein therapeutics, today announced that it has secured $15 million in Series A venture capital financing. Top-tier venture investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Frazier Healthcare and Third Rock Ventures led the round. Proceeds from the financing will be used to accelerate the development of Allena’s non-systemic protein therapeutics to treat metabolic and orphan diseases, with a particular focus on nephrologic and urologic conditions.

Founded by Alexey Margolin, Ph.D., founder and former chief executive officer of Alnara Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Robert Gallotto, former chief business officer of Alnara, Allena is leveraging its leadership team’s unique expertise in protein therapeutic design and development, as well as their operational and transaction experience.

“Allena’s innovative and proven approach for the development of oral protein therapeutics offers the potential to provide breakthrough treatments for patients with limited or no treatment options,” said Dr. Margolin, president and chief executive officer of Allena. “We are committed to rapidly creating value for our investors and working with renowned scientific leaders in metabolic, nephrologic and urologic disorders to advance our program. We expect to announce our initial disease indication shortly.”

The management team is joined by an experienced board of directors, including Stephen Kraus, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners, James Topper, M.D., Ph.D., general partner, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, and Robert Tepper, M.D., partner, Third Rock Ventures.

“We see Allena as an opportunity to create a world-class pharmaceutical company driven by a proven technical approach and strengthened by innovative research and science,” said Robert Tepper, M.D., partner, Third Rock Ventures. “Our experience working with this team in the past has yielded tangible success, including the acquisition of Alnara by Eli Lilly & Co. in 2010, and we look forward to working with Allena to create value and positively impact the lives of patients.”

Marketo raises $50MM funding with Battery Ventures leading

San Mateo, Calif. – November 16, 2011 – Marketo, the fastest-growing provider of Revenue Performance Management (RPM) technology, today announced it has secured $50 million in new venture financing. Battery Ventures led the round, with existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, Mayfield Fund and Storm Ventures also participating. In just five years since its founding, Marketo has delivered a proven business solution for any company looking to accelerate predictable revenue growth. Marketo will use the infusion of new capital to further its aggressive growth strategy.

“Because of our industry-leading growth in revenues and market share, Marketo had many options for capital. To stay focused on growth, our best choice was to secure private equity from a top-shelf firm, and I am very pleased to welcome Battery Ventures as an investor,” said Phil Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of Marketo. “This new investment gives us a war chest in excess of $70 million. We plan to use these funds aggressively to expand our award-winning product suite, further extend our global reach and look beyond our four walls to complement our own innovation engine. This investment validates our vision – and success – in building a platform to dramatically speed the way any company can grow revenue.”

From Fortune 500 to small and mid-sized companies, Marketo’s RPM technology drives businesses beyond traditional marketing automation and lead nurturing to optimize interactions with buyers across the entire revenue cycle and accelerate predictable revenue growth. The result is an incredibly more efficient way of doing business through a larger pipeline of better sales leads.

The entirety of the new $50 million investment is primary capital into the company. In total, Marketo has raised $107 million since it was founded in 2006. Also with this new round of financing, Neeraj Agrawal, Battery Ventures general partner, joins Marketo’s board of directors.

“From the moment we first engaged with Phil and the team at Marketo it became clear that the company was powering a revenue revolution,” said Agrawal. “We are bullish on the company’s ability to execute, and believe they are destined to be a true winner.”

“When we first invested in Marketo a year ago, they made an aggressive commitment to double revenue, and they’ve delivered,” said Norm Fogelsong, general partner at Institutional Venture Partners, whose other investments include leaders like Kayak, Twitter and Zynga. “Now we are doubling down on the future of this remarkable company and its ability to dramatically increase revenues for its customers.”

2011 is a benchmark year for Marketo. So far, the company has more than doubled its revenue, opened its EMEA headquarters in Dublin and launched Spark by Marketo™, an entirely new product solution specifically designed for the SMB sector. The company also released a study showing its vision to make a $2.5 trillion impact on its customer base over the next three years.

Fernandez adds, “When we started the company, our vision was to be the very best at delivering products and thought leadership to help companies grow revenue faster than ever before, and the market response has been incredible. Based on publicly available data, we now know we are, in absolute terms, adding more customers and more revenues this year than anyone in the RPM market.”

VentureWeek.com launches new Venture Capital News portal

November 7th, 2011 – Orange County, CA.  VentureWeek.com announces new Venture Capital News portal.

Evisors – $600M – Seed

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Evisors obtained a $600,000 seed investment from New York Angels.

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Laws Museum Artifact Preservation Rudolph Stamp Mill and Textile Storage

The Laws Railroad Museum exhibits include a variety of historic buildings saved from destruction and preserved at this site. The Museum buildings have been set up to represent a village surrounding the railroad depot. With the exception of the original depot and the agent's house, the original village of Laws was gone by 1959, the year before the railroad shut down.

The Project consists of building two wooden structures to house a historic stamp mill and store and protect some of the museum’s collection of textile resources. The Project also involves restoring the Rudolph Gold Mine Stamp Mill to an operational condition and incorporating interpretive displays inside the structures.