Congratulations to Kirk Simpson and the entire team over at Wave Accounting for raising $12 Million in Series B funding from the Social+Capital Partnership (s23p), Charles River Ventures and OMERS Ventures. We couldn’t be happier for this team!
Company Description | Wave helps small businesses achieve success. How? Wave Accounting is a 100% free online app that takes away the pain associated with accounting and bookkeeping, and gives business owners back their time. Wave eliminates laborious manual entry tasks, and yields accountant-friendly reports, without requiring the business owner to know anything about accounting. Along the way, Wave is revolutionizing the business side of small business SaaS apps: Sophisticated, privacy-protective revenue streams allow us to offer an extraordinary product completely for free — not just a free trial. Wave has already attracted 95,000 small business signups in over 200 countries around the world in just over 11 months.
SlideShare, founded in 2006, provides a way to share presentations on the Web. According to LinkedIn, Slide Share in March had nearly 29 million unique visitors. The site has nearly 7.4 million presentations embedded on more than 1.4 million Web domains. (Source).
We look forward to seeing the results of this acquisition in the end of this year. Stay tuned…
Congratulations to Rob Bailey and the entire team at DataSift for raising $7.2 Million in funding from GRP Partners and IA Ventures. Only last week we were watching them present at Under the Radar! Woot woot!
Company Description:
DataSift is the social-data platform company, enabling enterprises and entrepreneurs to mine the social web for insights from the billions of public social conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and millions of blogs and forums. As a licensed Twitter resyndication partner, DataSift gulps down and analyses data across the social-web, enabling companies to create powerful filters to listen for social-signals about brands, breaking news, and public opinion. Delivered as a cloud-platform, DataSift does the heavy-lifting for companies creating social-media monitoring, social CRM, business intelligence, financial-trading and news-monitoring applications
If you missed any part of yesterday’s Under the Radar Conference, than you missed out. However, if you missed Yobie Benjamin’s morning keynote session on the “Art of Scaling” than you REALLY missed out
Luckily, we have it filmed and you can watch it below. Get ready for words like “Quadrillions” and notes on $150 Million being transferred through a mobile CitiGroup app. Enjoy!
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Cloudscaling designs and builds open cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprises, service providers and governments who want the cost, performance and scalability of the leading public cloud services, but inside their datacenter. It delivers this via the Cloudscaling Open Cloud System, the first complete cloud infrastructure solution based on OpenStack technology and proven to run at large scale. Cloudscaling has more production OpenStack experience than any other company, including successful deployments at KT (formerly Korea Telecom), Internap and others. The Cloudscaling engineering team comes from cloud pioneers like Amazon Web Services, NASA, GoGrid, RightScale and eBay. Founded in 2006, Cloudscaling is headquartered in San Francisco.
Presenter: Troy Angrignon | VP Sales & Marketing | Cloudscaling
Troy Angrignon is a sales and partnering executive with 20 years of experience in the IT arena, spanning network consulting services, enterprise software, software as a service, enterprise and web 2.0, and cloud computing. As Vice President of Sales & Partnering at Cloudscaling, Troy is responsible for global sales and partner development. Prior to Cloudscaling, Troy was ISV partner manager with RightScale and consulting strategist at Appirio. Before this Troy guest co-chaired Under the Radar’s 2009 cloud conference as well as Vancouver’s 2009 Cloud Camp. Before those roles, Troy served as President of a web 2.0 startup, Emerging Technology Strategist for Business Objects, and owned a computer consulting services firm that operated for ten years.
NuoDB Founder and CEO Barry Morris was one of our Grad Circle presenters at this week’s Under the Radar conference. As we’ve done with other presenters, we took the opportunity and asked Barry to give us a few insights on his company culture.
1. If your company was a movie, which one would it be and why? The Social Network – because we don’t want any of the fat cats steal any of our database innovations. Luckily, we’ve filled broad patents early on.
2. If you could give a TED Talk, what would it be about? It would be a talk about Elastic Scalability at the Database Layer. Read more
Today’s Under the Radar was a smashing success. Over 350 people attended and watched over thirty bleeding-edge startups tell their stories and showcase their technology. Over half of UTR’s past presenting companies have raised major funding and/or been acquired after hitting our stage, and something tells me this batch of companies might bump this statistic up even higher. Every single startup hit it out of the park!
Judges included executives from Google, Nike, Wells Fargo, Netflix, and more…
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Metamarkets is pioneering a new approach to big data analytics – data science-as-a-service. With Metamarkets, business users can dramatically increase revenue, improve user engagement and enhance operational awareness. The company’s leading edge analytics platform delivers real-time insight into large-scale data streams, and its intuitive web and mobile application facilitates visual and interactive discovery. Customers get up and running quickly and scale easily with Metamarkets’ cloud deployment model.
Presenter: Michael Driscoll | CEO and Co-Founder | Metamarkets
Michael is a serial entrepreneur who has built data platforms in life sciences, online retail, and digital media over the past decade. Michael began his career as a software engineer for Human Genome Project, and later founded CustomInk.com, an early pioneer in customized apparel. More recently, Michael conceived and led Dataspora, where he remains Chairman, helping deliver data science to telcos, insurance firms, and retail banks. Michael holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University. He enjoys speaking and writing about big data and analytics.
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Infochimps helps companies understand their data. We provide tools and services that connect their internal data, leverage the power of cloud computing and new technologies such as Hadoop, and provide a wealth of external data sets that organizations can connect to their own data.
Presenter: Joseph Kelly | CEO and Co-Founder | Infochimps
Joseph Kelly is co-founder and CEO of Austin-based Infochimps, the leading data marketplace and big data infrastructure provider. At Infochimps, Joseph is responsible for leading the company’s enterprise marketing and sales efforts in social media and geo-location data, as well as their infrastructure product, serving customers ranging from the Fortune 100 to individual developers. He is an experienced serial entrepreneur having started ventures ranging from a distributor business for Chinese goods to an adventure travel company.
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DataSift is the social-data platform company, enabling enterprises and entrepreneurs to mine the social web for insights from the billions of public social conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and millions of blogs and forums. As a licensed Twitter resyndication partner, DataSift gulps down and analyses data across the social-web, enabling companies to create powerful filters to listen for social-signals about brands, breaking news, and public opinion. Delivered as a cloud-platform, DataSift does the heavy-lifting for companies creating social-media monitoring, social CRM, business intelligence, financial-trading and news-monitoring applications
Presenter: Rob Bailey | CEO | DataSift
Rob is the CEO of DataSift, the world’s most powerful platform for real time Social Data. DataSift provides social media monitoring companies, news organizations, brand management teams and financial services organizations with powerful tools to generate insights from sources like Twitter and Facebook. Rob was previously an executive at SimpleGeo (acquired by UrbanAirship), Yahoo!, eScene (acquired by Inktomi) and USWebCKS (acquired by Whitman Hart). Rob is a Venture Partner at SoftTechVC, and a strategic advisor to Admarvel (Acquired by Opera), Urban Airship, 500 Start-Ups, and Akkadian Ventures. Rob has a BA from Brown University and MBA from MIT Sloan.
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Nodeable adds intelligence to systems data, making it easy to view, analyze, and manage cloud infrastructure and services. Developers, operations teams and executives need to know what’s going on at every stage of the software development lifecycle. Nodeable aggregates, analyzes, and correlates systems data to provide actionable insight in real-time, all made available through a familiar social-network interface via web browser or mobile device. Nodeable: visibility, intelligence, and collaboration for the cloud age.
Presenter: Dave Rosenberg | CEO and Founder | Nodeable
Dave Rosenberg is CEO and founder of Nodeable, a systems intelligence platform for managing and analyzing systems data, making it easy for organizations to interact and collaboratively manage cloud-based systems and services. Previously, Dave was co-founder and CEO of open source middleware provider MuleSoft, CIO of financial services research firm Glass Lewis (acquired in 2007) and principal analyst for the Open Source Development Labs (now The Linux Foundation). With more than 15 years of technical and marketing experience he’s held roles at Sprint, OmniSky, NorthPoint Communications, Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs. He is an advisor to DataStax, IT Database, and Puppet Labs.
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Datadog does to your IT Data what Facebook did to your online life: we aggregate, prioritize and graph it all into one place, put *your* people in the center and make it really easy to discover, share and understand what matters. Datadog is available as a service for operations, development and management teams who want immediate visibility across servers, applications and cloud providers.
Presenter: Olivier Pomel | CEO and Founder | DataDog
Prior to founding Datadog, Olivier Pomel was a VP Technology for Wireless Generation, where he built data-driven curriculum apps for K-12 students and built an amazing engineering team from the early startup days to a $400M acquisition by News Corp. Before Wireless Generation, Olivier held software engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. Olivier is also an original author of the VLC media player and graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris.
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Cloudyn is an innovator of intelligent technologies for dynamically optimizing the way companies use cloud computing resources. Cloudyn’s automated automatically gives companies insight into their cloud infrastructure and recommends on how to perfect their cloud investments, reducing costs while maintaining operational performance. Already actively managing tens of thousands of clouds today, Cloudyn delivers an average of 40% cloud-related cost reductions to organizations with significant cloud investments in various industries worldwide. Cloudyn’s team of software veterans combine extensive experience in cloud computing and network optimization with a proven track record in transforming innovative ideas into viable and valuable products.
Presenter: Sharon Wagner | CEO | Cloudyn
Sharon is responsible for the strategic company direction and the overall day-to-day execution. Prior to joining Cloudyn, Sharon was Sr. Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) Cloud Connected Enterprise business unit where he enabled sales activities for CA SLM solutions in NA, APAC and LATAM. Prior to CA, Sharon was Director of Product Management and Business Development with Oblicore (Acquired by CA Technologies) where he was responsible for the company strategic roadmap and played major role in Oblicore’s acquisition by CA. Sharon holds B.Sc in Mathematics and computer science.
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Cloudability is the easy way to manage and monitor all of your cloud costs in one place. Cloudability aggregates cloud expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports to understand and manage costs, reduce waste, and identify opportunities for cost savings with alerts and efficiency recommendations. As a member of the Amazon Web Services provider program, Cloudability supports over 80 Cloud service providers, and offers JSON and XML APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system.
Presenter: Mat Ellis | CEO and Founder | Cloudability
Mat Ellis is CEO and Founder of Cloudability, a cloud management company that helps businesses save money on their cloud costs by reducing unintentional spending and eliminate waste. As a hands-on executive with over 20 years experience scaling and growing technology platforms, Ellis spent the nineties overseeing IT operations for global companies like Goldman Sachs, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola. He has held executive positions with four startups since 2000, including three with successful exits. The fourth, Adknowledge, is the largest privately held ad network in the world. He also served as VP of Technology for Connexus Corp. More recently, he founded the cloud computing consultancy Tecnh in 2009, where his main focus was to help move companies onto the cloud. Originally hailing from the UK, Ellis now resides in Portland, Oregon.
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NuoDB is a 21st century database that addresses the challenge of web-scale applications for the cloud. Exploiting a decentralized, shared-nothing architecture, the NuoDB database is 100% SQL compliant, guarantees ACID transactions, yet scales seamlessly and elastically on on-premises and modern cloud-based computing resources. Founded in 2010 by industry-renowned database architect and innovator Jim Starkey and enterprise software CEO Barry Morris, NuoDB will launch its next generation database software in Spring 2012.
Presenter: Barry Morris | CEO | NuoDB
Barry Morris is the CEO of NuoDB, Inc., the company commercializing Jim Starkey’s brilliant new database system for the cloud. The NuoDB product uniquely combines the power of traditional databases with the power of cloud computing: “100% Cloud, 100% SQL, 100% ACID.” Barry is a software CEO who focuses on breakthrough innovations in the database and middleware markets. Past companies include IONA Technologies, Ireland’s most successful software company, StreamBase Systems, the pioneer and leader in the CEP market, and Metrica, the write-optimized database system for test and measurement applications. Barry has a degree in Engineering from Oxford University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from the IMCA.
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AppFog, Inc. (formerly PHP Fog) is the creator of leading platform-as-a-service products PHP Fog and AppFog. With robust multi-language and multi-infrastructure support, AppFog is the leading modern and agnostic PaaS, while PHP Fog is the best PHP PaaS on the market today. Used by developers worldwide to deploy tens of thousands of applications, AppFog’s products delivers a reliable, scalable and fast platform for deploying applications in the cloud.
Presenter: Lucas Carlson | CEO and Founder | AppFog
Lucas Carlson is a thought leading programmer and entreprenuer who specializes in web development. Formerly the chief developer for online music streaming service MOG, he has authored the “Ruby Cookbook” for OReilly and built or contributed to over a dozen Ruby libraries including Rails and RedCloth. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his young family and is passionate about Go and statistics.
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ScaleArc is the pioneer in a new category of database infrastructure software that simplifies database deployment and operations and lowers costs without any changes to applications or databases. The ScaleArc iDB software abstracts database servers from application servers to provide instant horizontal scaling and connection management, and enables real-time visibility into every query to provide real-time analytics and instant troubleshooting, one-click query caching, wire-speed security enforcement, and much more. iDB is the only solution that reduces overall CapEx and OpEx costs by up to 50% and delivers instant performance improvements of up to 24x with no disruptions to existing environments.
Presenter: Varun Singh | CEO and Founder | ScaleArc
Varun is a technologist with broad experience in several fields, from running Linux-based BBS systems in the pre-internet-boom days, to writing about technology and open source software, to creating top online technology brands, and hosting technology shows on TV. He has led large engineering teams for Web & Application Development as CTO, building large highly scalable websites like IN.com and MoneyControl.com. Varun’s direct, hands-on experience with web and database technologies is what led him and his team to identify the emerging challenges of database environments and to their subsequent inventions around transparent simplification of databases and the formation of ScaleArc.
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StackMob is the industry’s first, cloud-based mobile platform that helps developers create a mobile business by letting them easily build, deploy and grow full featured applications right from the start. StackMob features front end HTML5 and robust backend services that cut development time from months to minutes so developers can focus on creating high caliber apps with quality user experiences. As experts in building scalable, distributed systems, StackMob enables developers to easily create and mange APIs, extend APIs with custom code, build using the development and production environments and add business solutions like customer development messaging, social integration and analytics.
Presenter: Ty Amell | Co-Founder, President & CEO | StackMob
Ty is the CEO of StackMob and founded the company in January 2010. He brings a wide range of product and engineering expertise, including building scalable distributed systems and monetizing mobile applications. Prior to StackMob, Ty managed mobile, API, and frontend teams at imeem. Building out imeem’s popular mobile applications to over 1.2 million users, Ty learned first hand the pain behind writing apps and what it takes to grow them. imeem is where Ty and original co-founder Will Palmeri first had the idea of starting StackMob.
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MongoLab is brought to you by ObjectLabs Corporation, a cloud infrastructure company. ObjectLabs provides developers and IT professionals with the application infrastructure they need to build and manage cloud data services. As a leading provider in the emerging market of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), MongoLab offers cloud MongoDB services on multiple cloud providers and tools that automate the operational aspects of running MongoDB. Thousands worldwide enjoy MongoLab’s rich suite of management tools, and trust MongoLab to provision, manage, monitor, and backup their databases. MongoLab has partnered with all of the major PaaS providers to provide seamless integration with the application tier. Privately owned, ObjectLabs is backed by Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital, and David Cohen.
Presenter: Will Shulman | CEO | MongoLab
Will is a technologist and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building innovative software platforms and products. He has played various executive and technical management roles at successful small and medium-sized software companies. Most notably he was CTO and Co-founder of Merced Systems, an enterprise analytics software company whose award-winning products have enabled it to rank consistently as one of fastest growing technology companies in Silicon Valley. Will holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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CloudBees was founded by a team of Java middleware and open source entrepreneurs who are committed to providing a “Java in the Cloud” Platform that provides developers and enterprises the absolute fastest way to build and deploy Java applications to meet their fast-cycle business needs. Spanning the entire application lifecycle, our Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) enables companies to simplify and streamline the entire application process, and accelerate application deployment. CloudBees minimizes application lifecycle costs by eliminating the non value-add aspects of provisioning and maintaining systems and application infrastructure, and transitioning companies to a more cost-efficient pay-for-what-you-use approach.
Presenter: Steven Harris | Vice President of Products | CloudBees
As VP of Products, Steve is responsible for CloudBees’ overall product development and product management. Steve came to CloudBees after more than 13 years leading Oracle’s Java server development organization where he led Oracle’s Java products and strategy from the inception of Java EE though the acquisitions of BEA and Sun Microsystems. Steve’s professional journey from the early days of object-oriented programming, through different development paradigms, into the emergence of the Java platform and its adoption in the enterprise convinced him that the changes CloudBees was driving with the cloud and its Platform as a Service PaaS will fundamentally change the way enterprise applications are developed and deployed.
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MemSQL is a scalable, memory-optimized database that is 30x faster than relational databases on disk. By maintaining a MySQL interface, MemSQL is instantly accessible to millions of developers yet still offers significant improvements in read and write performance that modern workloads require. MemSQL is a Y Combinator company that raised $2.1m in venture capital in 2011.
Presenter: Eric Frenkiel | CEO and Founder | MemSQL
Eric is the founder and CEO of MemSQL, a scalable, memory-optimized database that is 30x faster than conventional databases on disk. Prior to MemSQL, Eric worked in partnership development at Facebook and has worked in both engineering and sales engineering capacities at other Silicon Valley startups. Eric was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 innovators in technology in 2011. Eric graduated from Stanford University’s School of Engineering and is originally from Orange County.
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Cabana is a browser based mobile app development platform and API that changes the way apps are made. Cabana achieves this through the combination of a highly visual drag and drop development environment, an innovative graph based visual programming system, and the Cabana Exchange, a component marketplace that contains functionality from some of the top mobile app service providers. Cabana’s Appification API enables third party sites to offer custom app creation to their users with the press of a button.
Presenter: Reeve Thompson | Co-Founder | Cabana
Reeve Thompson has been designing and developing interactive software since 1995. Prior to founding Cabana, Reeve was a video game Producer at companies including Barbary Coast Interactive, Panasonic Interactive Media and LucasArts where he produced the critically acclaimed Star Wars Starfighter for the PS2, Xbox and PC. Reeve joined Cabana co-founder Jeremy Gordon at videogame developer Secret Level in 2003 and served as Vice President of Development and later Vice President of Studio Operations. In 2006 he and Jeremy negotiated the successful acquisition of Secret Level by SEGA and joined SEGA’s executive staff before eventually leaving to co-found Cabana in early 2009.
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Drawn to Scale develops Spire, a database for real-time Big Data. Revolutionary and bold, Spire empowers developers with massive scalability, real-time queries, SQL and simplified management. Spire is built on Hadoop, the most scalable and reliable foundation for Big Data. Easily handling any volume of data and any number of users, Spire is the ideal database for Big Data web applications, business intelligence, analytics and more.
Presenter: Bradford Stephens | Founder and CEO | Drawn to Scale
Bradford is the founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale. Bradford launched Drawn to Scale with the dream of making web-scale data easier to use. He is a frequent blogger and speaker on distributed computing, scalability and databases – especially when all three converge. Bradford has a diverse background. From distributed computing, to politics, to entrepreneurship and metal guitar, it all comes together to set the vision and direction for Drawn to Scale.
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AppHarbor is a fully hosted .NET Platform as a Service. AppHarbor can deploy and scale any standard .NET application. AppHarbor is used by thousands of developers and businesses to host anything from personal blogs to high traffic web applications. AppHarbor lets you instantly deploy and scale .NET applications using your favourite versioning tool. Installing add-ons is just as easy.
Presenter: Rune Soerensenn | CEO and Co-Founder | AppHarbor
Rune Soerensen is Chief Execute Officer and Co-founder of AppHarbor, the .NET cloud Platform as a Service. He holds a degree in Philosophy and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and is an autodidact developer with years of experience primarily in .NET and Ruby. Rune has worked with software and product development in a series of platform-oriented internet startups. He is an Y Combinator alumni after participating in the program with AppHarbor during the winter of 2010.
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Today’s enterprise IT infrastructures are growing in size and complexity accelerated by virtualization and cloud computing. Puppet Labs is the company behind Puppet, the leading open source datacenter automation solution. Puppet enables staff to manage their IT infrastructure through a model–driven architecture, automating the configuration of computing devices through a simple cross-platform interface. Puppet insulates IT staff from differences between platforms making IT more secure, efficient, and scalable. Puppet is broadly deployed at 1,000′s of companies world-wide such as Google, the NYSE-Euronext, Twitter, Digg, Yelp, Juniper and JPMorgan Chase.
Presenter: Luke Kanies | CEO and Founder | Puppet Labs
Luke Kanies is the CEO and a founder of Puppet Labs, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it builds next generation data center automation. He is the original author of Puppet Labs’ primary product, Puppet. Prior to Puppet Labs, he was a consultant, speaker, and author on topics related to configuration management and system administration. Kanies received a B.A. in Chemistry from Reed College.
