Brainspl.at: Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Scott

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:59:50 +0000

great to hear it. we've started to [use merb and it is great!

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by George Moschovitis

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:37:25 +0000

Congratulations!

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by whoismario

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:27:15 +0000

Congratulations, Ezra. You guys have so many great products and I'm glad you're being rewarded for it.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Dirceu Jr.

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:55:35 +0000

Awesome! Congrats EY team. I like the focus on Ruby and when Ezra says "next wave of Ruby"... great point of view does not get stuck in Rails things ;)

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by David Parker

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:56:47 +0000

Congrats Ezra! The Ruby community continues to grow and I'm glad to see Engine Yard out front!

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Wilson Bilkovich

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:44:02 +0000

Sweet. Time for a Rubinius jet!

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Gaveen

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:46:48 +0000

Great to hear the news. It was good to see an enthusiastic team behind the Ruby platform. To be honest, I think EY has been another factor in the success Ruby has seen in the enterprise. Then venturing into FOSS development and taking Rubinius, etc. under the care was another brave, yet a smart move, IMHO. Good luck Ezra (and the EY team). We'll look forward to Vertebra and much more. :)

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Notebook

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:22:57 +0000

Congrats ez, it's made my day, good news, thank you all :)

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Antonio Cangiano

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:57:32 +0000

This is great news, congratulations Ezra! It's a big win, not just for EY, but for the Ruby community.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by brian mcnamara

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:48:52 +0000

awesome news. really awesome. keep on keepin' on.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Ric

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:51:31 +0000

RoR has it's vehement critics, so I'm glad that people like Engine Yard are here to balance things out. I'm a co-founder of a startup using Rails for our Software-as-a-Service product, and although we don't use Engine Yard for hosting, we like what they do for the community - Congrats on your success.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Luca Bozzo

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:22:25 +0000

Congrats to you all

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Bil Kleb

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:28:51 +0000

Excellent news.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Kristin White

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:28:37 +0000

That is SUCH exciting news! Check out this video interview with Tom Mornini and Lance Walley, CTO & CEO of Engine Yard..they talk about how you can literally go drinking on the night you launch your Rails app with EY: http://talktech.tv/2008/06/12/interview-with-engine-yard/

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Zack

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:31:05 +0000

Wow - great news! Congrats Ezra and EY team. I'm looking forward to playing with Vertebra...

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Michael Sheakoski

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:28:40 +0000

Congrats to everyone at Engine Yard! You guys are truly a class act.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Lance Ennen

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:26:32 +0000

Awesome great news! Congrats to everyone at EngineYard! I look forward to working with Vertebra. Thank for all the hard work.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Erik Dungan

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:38:54 +0000

Great news. I just signed up with EY a couple weeks ago and we're moving one of our apps over there now. Exciting to see what else you have in store.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Andy C

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:25:46 +0000

The story of EngineYard is truly one of the nicest I've ever come across, and I think many of us share and care about the same vision of the future as you, Ez. Congratulations on the funding!

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Hemant

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:22:38 +0000

Congratulations Ezra (and EY too!).

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Brian Hogan

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:15:43 +0000

That is awesome news indeed I can't wait to see what comes out of this.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Bill Katz

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:11:43 +0000

Congrats, Ezra! Nice to see Amazon's venture commitment to your work.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Joao

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:07:22 +0000

Here's my word of support: keep on fighting the good fight! Thanks a lot from a believer in Ruby!

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by TonyC

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:52:48 +0000

holy crap! awesome news.

"Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark" by Steven Bristol

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:50:43 +0000

Congratulations Ezra! This is awesome. Well done. :)

Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark

ezmobius — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:17:00 +0000

Man it seems like yesterday that Engine Yard was a small 3 person startup with big ideas and little cash. People seemed to like what we were offering and the business grew into a thriving startup.

In the beginning we only had plans to be the best fully managed rails/ruby hosting company. And I think we met this goal early on. But it became apparent that we had a strong brand and we started kicking around ideas of becoming an open source software company as well.

We believe in Ruby as a platform, and we’ve put our money where our mouth is when we sponsored Rubinius and Merb, hiring many developers to work on both projects.

Engine Yard has become much more then just a managed rails hosting company, we want to strengthen the Ruby ecosystem for everyone by providing the infrastructure and open source software for the next wave of Ruby deployments in the cloud.

We’ve also been delving into the cloud computing arena as I think the next 5 years are going to see huge transition from standard hosting models into the cloud. Our upcoming Vertebra project is a new application programming platform for building distributed cloud applications with XMPP. You can expect to see the first open source release of Vertebra this summer, I think this is a truly unique and very fun project to work on. I think a lot of folks out there will have tons of different use cases for it.

So fast forward to right now, Engine Yard now has more then 80 employees worldwide. Half of these people are Application Support and SysAdmins working to support all the awesome applications we host. Providing 24/7 support. But we also have a growing Engineering team working on all kinds of exciting stuff. I consider myself lucky to work with such a talented team.

So with all that being said, I’m excited to annouce that we have just closed our Series B round of VC funding totalling $15million dollars(insert austin powers joke here)! This round includes investment from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark.

We’re going to use this money towards making Ruby the platform of choice for cloud computing and web development in startups and the enterprise alike.

Watch this space, we have lots of exciting announcements in the coming months. I’d like to thank all of our customers and users of our open source software and the Ruby community in general. It has been a wild ride these last 2 years and I expect many more exciting things to come!