Cloud company Elastra gets $12M from Amazon
Elastra, a company that helps manage applications in the Internet cloud, has raised $12 million in new funding.
This is Elastra’s second venture round, and it was led by Bay Partners, with Amazon.com and existing investor Hummer Winblad Venture Partners also participating. Amazon’s backing is particularly impressive, since its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) makes Amazon one of the most important companies to cloud computing in general, and to Elastra in particular, since the San Francisco startup… Continue Reading
Updated: Elastra, a EC2 database cluster co., raises $2.6M
[This story was originally published Aug. 8. With new information, we've updated it, and also changed the headline to the story to reflect that we now know it's a database company. See below.]
Elastra, a San Francisco software startup formed by former Plumtree CEO Kirill Sheynkman, has raised $2.6 million in a first round of financing, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Wire. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners led the deal, with John Hummer joining… Continue Reading