Irvine, California-based Integrien has announced an $8 million round of funding led by Clearstone Venture Partners. Mariner Capital Ventures and the Acartha Group also participated.
Integrien, founded in the shaky days of 2001, makes a product called Alive that lets IT workers perform analytics on their systems. The company has released a new version of the product, AliveVM, designed for the increasingly popular virtual machine environments now casually referred to as part of "the cloud."
In its announcement of the funding, Integrien claimed 140 percent year-over-year top-line growth for 2009, a year when many companies were thrilled to break even. Integrien also alluded to several seven-figure deals with Fortune 100 companies.
Clearstone managing director Jim Armstrong credited Integrien's growth to "the rapid adoption of virtualization and distributed cloud computing." The funding will be used to grow sales channels both inside and outside the company.
