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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Appirio Raises $60 Million In Series D Funding Led By General Atlantic
New Funding Will Fuel Appirio’s International Expansion, Investments in Technology and Crowdsourcing Platform For Cloud Development
San Mateo, Calif. - March 15, 2012 - Appirio, a technology-enabled services provider that helps enterprises power their business with the cloud, today announced that it has closed $60 million in Series D funding led by global growth investor General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. Appirio plans to use the funds for investment and M&A to support global expansion of its consulting practice areas, as well as to build out the company’s enabling cloud technology and acceleration of its successful crowdsourcing development platform - CloudSpokes.
The financing follows a banner year of growth for Appirio. In 2011 alone, Appirio increased year-over-year revenue by over 80 percent, expanded into Europe with the acquisition of Saaspoint and developed the Cloud Enablement Suite (CES) - an integrated set of applications, assets and development capacity that supports enterprise cloud development. Additionally, the company introduced CloudSpokes - a crowdsourcing community for cloud development that has already attracted 35,000+ developers.
San Mateo, Calif. - March 15, 2012 - Appirio, a technology-enabled services provider that helps enterprises power their business with the cloud, today announced that it has closed $60 million in Series D funding led by global growth investor General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. Appirio plans to use the funds for investment and M&A to support global expansion of its consulting practice areas, as well as to build out the company’s enabling cloud technology and acceleration of its successful crowdsourcing development platform - CloudSpokes.
The financing follows a banner year of growth for Appirio. In 2011 alone, Appirio increased year-over-year revenue by over 80 percent, expanded into Europe with the acquisition of Saaspoint and developed the Cloud Enablement Suite (CES) - an integrated set of applications, assets and development capacity that supports enterprise cloud development. Additionally, the company introduced CloudSpokes - a crowdsourcing community for cloud development that has already attracted 35,000+ developers.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Appirio Charts Strong Business Growth in 2011
Signs On Nearly 100 New Customers Across Geographies and Industries
SAN MATEO, Calif. - January 26, 2012 - Appirio, a services provider that helps enterprises power their business with public cloud solutions, today announced it closed 2011 with a strong showing in new customer wins, geographic expansion and overall business growth in the rapidly evolving cloud computing space.
Corporate Milestones
SAN MATEO, Calif. - January 26, 2012 - Appirio, a services provider that helps enterprises power their business with public cloud solutions, today announced it closed 2011 with a strong showing in new customer wins, geographic expansion and overall business growth in the rapidly evolving cloud computing space.
Corporate Milestones
- Increased revenue by 80 percent year over year.
- Grew the team to more than 400 cloud experts across the U.S., Japan, India and U.K.
- Acquired four companies, bringing Appirio additional expertise in social, mobile and user adoption, and adding to the company’s core salesforce.com and Google business in the U.S. Midwest and Europe.
- Continued to grow our presence internationally, appointing new GMs for Europe and Asia Pacific.
- Moved more than 1.5 million users to public cloud applications like salesforce.com, Google and Workday.
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Appirio to Accelerate Global Expansion Through New Strategic Investment
Appirio Celebrates Five Years of Growth, Moving More Than 1 Million People to the Public Cloud
San Mateo, Calif. - August, 2011 - Appirio, a cloud solution provider, today announced it will be expanding internationally to serve a growing base of customers in the European and Asia Pacific markets. The expansion is being funded by a strategic investment from two existing investors - GGV Capital, an expansion stage venture capital firm focused on the U.S. and Asia, and Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company. Expansion will be through a combination of organic and inorganic growth.Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Appirio Secures $10 Million in Series C Funding from GGV Capital and Sequoia Capital
Appirio and the Cloud Computing Market Continue to Grow and Attract Investment in a Tough Economy
SAN MATEO, CA.—February 25, 2009—Today Appirio (www.appirio.com), a leading on-demand products and professional services company, today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series C financing from GGV Capital and Sequoia Capital, which will be used to further invest in product development, go-to-market strategies and services to help businesses confidently move to cloud computing. Appirio also plans to use the money to invest in and expand strategic partnerships. Today’s funding follows a Series B investment of $5.6 million led by Sequoia Capital in July 2008. In total, Appirio has raised $16.7 million in funding.
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