Engine Yard gets $15M for Rails hosting, and a new platform

Engine Yard gets $15M for Rails hosting, and a new platform

Engine Yard, a hosting and support company for the popular Ruby on Rails programming framework, has raised $15 million in a second round of financing. Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Tom Mornini says the San Francisco startup will soon expand its offerings with the release of Vertebra, its platform for managing Rails applications in the Internet cloud.

The new funding is kind of surprising, since Engine Yard just announced its $3.5 million first round back in… Continue Reading