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JUNE 30, 2011

This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. But … Downsizing Venture Capital.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. Nationwide, there was $4.8 billion invested in the region.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. As part of the acquisition, ELC founder Siegel joins venture capital firm Accel Partners in London, as a venture partner. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to ELC Technologies, Rahmat takes the helm of ELC.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

According to the company, the funding was structured as a $25M term loan and $5M revolving line, and will go towards buying back the stake of one of the company''s founders, to pay down equipment financing, and to make cash available for growth and working capital. The company was advised by DH Capital in the funding. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Core Innovation Capital. Moonshots Capital. Fund size: $250M growth fund Los Angeles Partners: Dana Settle, Mark Terbeek, Dylan Pearce, Paul Bricault, Jon Goldman. Section 32. HashTagOne.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , which develops open source, cloud computing management software, has linked with a developer of scaling software for the Java programming language, Terracotta, the firms said Tuesday. Tags: eucalpytus java cloud computing amazon terracotta. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a provider of software for managing cloud computing, has tied with GroundWork Open Source , a developer of open source network and systems management software. Tags: eucalyptus software cloud computing groundwork amazon. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Today, we're featuring Marc Averitt , co-founder and Managing Director of Okapi Venture Capital. becomes a reality in 2013 with the consumerization of enterprise software and cloud computing leading the charge. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I think "enterprise 2.0" READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Eucalpytus develops open source, cloud software used to manage cloud deployment, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. Mickos also serves on the board of another, cloud software firm in Santa Barbara, RightScale, along with Mozilla Messaging and Electrosonic READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud computing firm backed by Tenaya Capital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Presidio Ventures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScale myCloud.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software headed by Michael Crandell, has raised $15.6M RightScale's software is used by companies to monitor, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, including both public and private clouds. The firm has now raise $58.10M in funding.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm RightScale announced today that the firm is partnering with a number of other software providers to deliver business intelligence software on its cloud management platform. RightScale is venture backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 10, 2012

I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. And with startups so go VCs.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm Eucalyptus has opened up a new, cloud testing lab in the Bay Area, the firm said today. The developer of cloud management and computing software said the new lab will be based at the CoreSite Bay Area data center. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

MetaCloud's fully managed services helps companies deploy their own, OpenStack cloud computing systems. OpenStack is an emerging standard which lets developers create cloud computing applications which are portable across different Internte service providers, private clouds, and more.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Wednesday that it has opened up a new office in Beijing, China. Eucalyptus, which is headed by former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, is venture backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital, and BV Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

WaveMaker and RightScale said that the two will integrate their products, allowing users who develop apps on WaveMaker to deploy them through RightScale's Cloud Management Platform. RightScale, which is venture backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital, develops cloud computing software used to manage and deploy servers.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Eucalpytus, which is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates, makes software which helps enterprise customers deploy cloud computing infrastructure. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The firm is being run by Marten Mickos, who had previously served as CEO of MySQL AB.

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JANUARY 10, 2012

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Tuesday that it has linked with a Korean company to distribute its products in Korea. RightScale said that the Korean Internet Neutral eXchange (KINX) will resell its software for managing public, private, and hybrid clouds.

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JUNE 26, 2013

A number of cloud companies here are involved in the OpenStack effort, including Inktank, parent firm DreamHost, Morphlabs, and Media Temple. metacloud venture capital cloud computing private openstack rackspace deployment management software' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Eucalpytus is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, and is a spinout of UC Santa Barbara. Tags: eucalyptus systems cloud computing softare. According to the firm, the updated software now includes multi-cluster support, better scaling, and new monitoring capabilities. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , which develops software for managing public and private cloud computing infrastructure, said this week that it has launched a new product called mCloud On-Demand. The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the cloud computing software developer headed by Marten Mickos , has raised $30M in a Series C round of funding, the firm announced this morning. in capital. Eucalpytus develops cloud deployment software, which is used to create either private cloud or hybrid cloud deployments.

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JULY 1, 2010

The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included current investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. Eucalyptus said the funding will go to scale development, marketing, and sales of its commercial open source private cloud management software. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $25.5M.

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MARCH 5, 2014

For all of the consumer adoption of the cloud, enterprise users are still not as bought into the vision of cloud computing as one might think they would be. So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals?

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has led an investment in a cloud computing company, Standing Cloud , based in Boulder, Colorado. According to Standing Cloud, it received a $3M, Series B financing from Avalon, which also included the firm's prior investor, The Foundry Group.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Redpoint Ventures , said late Monday evening that the firm has closed on Redpoint IV,a $400M, early stage venture capital fund specifically aimed at the social and mobile Internet, cloud computing, and clean technology. Tags: redpoint venture capital investment. The firm said it now has over $2B in management.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , the developer of cloud computing software which is backed by Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates, said Thursday that it has named Ning Wang as its Chief Financial Officer. Wang replaces co-founder Woody Rollins, who becomes Chief Talent Officer.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Carlsbad-based Luxtera , the chip developer backed by August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds and Lux Capital, said today that it has launched the industry's first, 100Gbps optical transceiver chip. The firm said the chip is targeted at next generation cloud computing data centers and high performance computing.

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , the UCSB spinout which is developing cloud computing software, said today that the firm has linked into a number of partners, including AppScale, Canonical, CohesiveRT, RightScale, rPath, and Ylastic. Eucalyptus develops software which can be used to implement cloud computing within companies.

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MAY 10, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing software, is expanding its space in Santa Barbara, according to a report. RightScale is venture backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software maker Eucalyptus Systems , which is run by Marten Mickos, said Tuesday that it has launched a new version of its products, which includes a number of enterprise deployment features. The Eucalpytus software is used to manage enterprise-class private cloud and hybrid clouds.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, has scored $5.5M The firm said the funding was led by Benchmark Capital, along with participation by BV Capital. Tags: eucalyptus systems software cloud computing venture capital ucsb.

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JULY 19, 2013

Irvine-based Netlist , a publicly listed developer of memory for the cloud computing and storage market, announced Thursday that it has raised $15M in credit financing. Both Netlist and Fortress said that the focus of the investment would be to bolster its intellectual property and patent assets, and capitalize on those patents.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh , a developer of cloud computing management software, announced today that it has raised $15M in a funding round. ServiceMesh provides software to help enterprise business units self-provision cloud infrastructure and enterprise apps. The round came from Ignition Partners.

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JUNE 16, 2010

The firm--which is a spinout of UC Santa Barbara--said the new software allows users to include applications and workloads running on the Windows operating system into its Eucalyptus private cloud. The software now supports Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Windows 7, along with VMware, Xen, and Amazon EC2 cloud computing.

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