Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money

Posted by ezmobius Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:44:00 GMT

Just a quick note here so say that we’ve finally let the cat out of the bag. We’ve been working with Benchmark Venture Capital on this investment for the past 4 months and it has finally closed!

Our hosting business has already been profitable for some time now and this investment will allow us to pursue the goal of our own Engine Yard open source technology stack. The stack includes Rubinius, Rails, Merb and our custom Xen clustering management technologies.

I’m really excited about the future of Engine Yard and what we plan to do for the Ruby community. Hard to believe we started with 4 people and 6 servers in October of 2006 and now we have many clusters and 32 employees across the globe!

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  1. Matt said about 1 hour later:
    Congrats Ezra! Looking forward to seeing what happens in the future of EY.
  2. zapnap said about 1 hour later:
    congrats ez! that's great news not just for EY but for the ruby community as a whole too, given what it means for the future of merb and rubinius. sweet!
  3. Chris said about 2 hours later:
    You guys are on fire, keep up the great work. We salute you.
  4. Mark said about 2 hours later:
    Congrats! Thats awesome to hear.
  5. Garry said about 3 hours later:
    Wow, and EY hasn't even been around two years. That's remarkable!!
  6. Dan Croak said about 3 hours later:
    Congratulations Ezra and all at Engine Yard. Best of luck.
  7. Michael Koukoullis said about 5 hours later:
    Congratulations! No doubt the best of times are still ahead for you guys.
  8. Ryan A. said about 9 hours later:
    Congratulations :) EY looks like a great service and the work you're doing on Merb and Co. is fantastic.
  9. Igor Clark said about 12 hours later:
    Nice work Ezra, hope it pans out well. It's really good to see VC money going to an outfit with such a community orientation - BVC are obviously not in it purely for the altruism, so setting aside their judgment of EY's individual capabilities, the fact that they can see the value in a setup not only embracing the use of open-source technology but actively furthering its adoption and development is encouraging. Keep it steady.
  10. Ben Reubenstein said about 21 hours later:
    Very nice work. Good to see EY get funding. I would much rather see this than another damn social network! My shop has switched a lot of dev to Merb, looking forward to Rubinius!
  11. Chocolove said 1 day later:
    Congratulations! thats great news! When can we expect to see the fruits of this investment?
  12. Jeff Casimir said 3 days later:
    Congrats EZ. Now, where do I apply? :)

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