Brainspl.at: Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Jeff Casimir

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:41:50 +0000

Congrats EZ. Now, where do I apply? :)

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Chocolove

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:48:19 +0000

Congratulations! thats great news! When can we expect to see the fruits of this investment?

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Ben Reubenstein

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:54:03 +0000

Very nice work. Good to see EY get funding. I would much rather see this than another damn social network! My shop has switched a lot of dev to Merb, looking forward to Rubinius!

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Igor Clark

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:44:40 +0000

Nice work Ezra, hope it pans out well. It's really good to see VC money going to an outfit with such a community orientation - BVC are obviously not in it purely for the altruism, so setting aside their judgment of EY's individual capabilities, the fact that they can see the value in a setup not only embracing the use of open-source technology but actively furthering its adoption and development is encouraging. Keep it steady.

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Ryan A.

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:20:15 +0000

Congratulations :) EY looks like a great service and the work you're doing on Merb and Co. is fantastic.

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Michael Koukoullis

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:44:33 +0000

Congratulations! No doubt the best of times are still ahead for you guys.

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Dan Croak

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:12:28 +0000

Congratulations Ezra and all at Engine Yard. Best of luck.

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Garry

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:44:23 +0000

Wow, and EY hasn't even been around two years. That's remarkable!!

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Mark

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:12:45 +0000

Congrats! Thats awesome to hear.

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Chris

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:35:21 +0000

You guys are on fire, keep up the great work. We salute you.

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by zapnap

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:09:10 +0000

congrats ez! that's great news not just for EY but for the ruby community as a whole too, given what it means for the future of merb and rubinius. sweet!

"Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money" by Matt

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:42:20 +0000

Congrats Ezra! Looking forward to seeing what happens in the future of EY.

Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money

ezmobius — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:44:00 +0000

Just a quick note here so say that we’ve finally let the cat out of the bag. We’ve been working with Benchmark Venture Capital on this investment for the past 4 months and it has finally closed!

Our hosting business has already been profitable for some time now and this investment will allow us to pursue the goal of our own Engine Yard open source technology stack. The stack includes Rubinius, Rails, Merb and our custom Xen clustering management technologies.

I’m really excited about the future of Engine Yard and what we plan to do for the Ruby community. Hard to believe we started with 4 people and 6 servers in October of 2006 and now we have many clusters and 32 employees across the globe!