Cloudkick’s simple cloud management gets $750K

Cloudkick’s simple cloud management gets $750K

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With more companies looking to move their applications onto cloud infrastructure, startups are emerging that offer services to facilitate that process. Cloudkick, for example, says it has built the easiest way manage your applications in the cloud, and it has just raised raised $750,000 in funding.

The San Jose, Calif. company was part of the winter class at startup incubator Y Combinator. When it launched in March, I thought it was one of the most promising… Continue Reading

Y Combinator Demo Day: Simple cloud management, real-time energy monitoring, and more

Y Combinator Demo Day: Simple cloud management, real-time energy monitoring, and more

If anyone’s feeling depressed about the future of Silicon Valley innovation, I’d suggest sneaking into the demo day tomorrow at incubator Y Combinator’s Mountain View, Calif. office. Watching a bunch of smart, ambitious entrepreneurs show off what they’re working on is a good cure for the “nothing cool is happening” blues — and I saw a strong batch of startups at today’s event. (The same presentations repeat tomorrow.)

For the most part, there weren’t many “wow”… Continue Reading