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| Feb 15, 2015 | How to ‘predict’ the future: Thesis-driven investing | Avalon Ventures doggedly sticks to its three-pronged investment strategy, and we’ve had repeated success with it. While some have referred to this success as prescience, it’s more sophisticated (and more interesting) than looking into a cry... |
| Feb 15, 2015 | How to ‘predict’ the future: Thesis-driven investing | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Avalon Ventures doggedly sticks to its three-pron... |
| Mar 1, 2014 | Cloudant (YC S08) acquired by IBM to bolster their cloud computing offerings vs Amazon | Klint Finley at Wired writes:
In yet another sign that IBM is serious about competing with Amazon and Google in the world of cloud computing, Big Blue has acquired Cloudant, a company offering an online database service meant for storing m... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | IBM Acquires Cloudant | IBM (NYSE: IBM) is to acquire Cloudant, Inc., a Boston, MA-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider.
The amount of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, was not disclosed.
Led by CEO Derek Schoettle C... |
| Feb 24, 2014 | IBM Doubles Down On Cloud Services With Cloudant Acquisition | IBM is attempting to make up for its delayed push in cloud services by acquiring Cloudant, a YC alum and a cloud specialist in the area of NoSQL, database-as-a-service. This acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed by the companie... |
| Feb 24, 2014 | IBM Buys Online Database Provider Cloudant as Cloud Wars March On | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
IBM is taking another bite out of the cloud software world as it tries to keep up with much younger technology companies.
Today, IBM announced it was buying Boston-based Cloud... |
| Feb 24, 2014 |
Avalon Ventures Gets Exit At Cloudant
| San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant, a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Cloud... |
| May 19, 2013 | What Sets The Google Cloud Platform Apart From The Rest | There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O. It’s not a brand new platform. It’s what Google has used for years. It is Google’s foundation. It is what m... |
| May 14, 2013 | Cloudant Raises $12M in Series B |
BOSTON, MA, Provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced $12 million in series B funding from Devonshire Investors.
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| May 14, 2013 | Cloudant Raises $12M from Rackspace and Others, Opens SF Office | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s some more fuel for the online database arms race today: Boston-based Cloudant has secured a new $12 million investment round.
The money will bankroll Cloudant’s genera... |
| May 14, 2013 | Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has ra... |
| May 14, 2013 | Cloudant Raises $12M in Series B Funding | Cloudant, a Boston, MA-based provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), raised $12m in series B funding.
Backers included Devonshire Investors, the private equity firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments, Rackspace H... |
| May 14, 2013 | Cloudant (YC S08) raises $12M for highly scalable database-as-a-service | Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.
Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists. The team struggl... |
| May 14, 2013 | Funding Daily: Finally, a day with no social/consumer app funding stories | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Mark it on your calendars: Today, no social media... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Cloudant Grabs Strategic Investment |
BOSTON, MA, Leading provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced that Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (Samsung Ventures) has made a strategic investment.
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| Feb 6, 2013 | Boston Roundup: Biogen Idec, Cloudant, NEA, eClinicalWorks, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A big biotech drug buy leads off this collection of deal news from around the Boston region:
—Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) is buying out partner Elan Corp.’s interest in nataliz... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Cloudant Receives Investment from Samsung Venture Investment | Cloudant, a Boston, MA-based provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Samsung Venture Investment Corp.
The company intends use the capital to advance research and develop... |
| Dec 25, 2012 | How The Search For The God Particle Led To This Cool Startup | YouTube/CloudantInc
Mike Miller(left) and Alan Hoffman, cofounders of Cloudant Four years ago, three scientists and friends were working on one of the world's greatest mysteries: the search for the God particle.
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| Dec 25, 2012 | How The Search For The God Particle Led To This Cool Startup | YouTube/CloudantInc
Mike Miller(left) and Alan Hoffman, cofounders of Cloudant Four years ago, three scientists and friends were working on one of the world's greatest mysteries: the search for the God particle.
They didn't know they would ... |
| Dec 25, 2012 | How The Search For The God Particle Led To This Cool Startup | YouTube/CloudantInc
Mike Miller(left) and Alan Hoffman, cofounders of Cloudant
Four years ago, three scientists and friends were working on one of the world's greatest mysteries: the search for the God particle.
They didn't know they would ... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | TripAdvisor, Nuance, Thinking Phone, & Others in the Boston Deals Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 10/3/12 1:05 pm. See below.] Venture funding, acquisitions, and partnership news has been breaking in the last week among New England IT and Web companies.
—Speech co... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | More CIA Money For NoSQL: In-Q-Tel Backs Cloudant | Today cloud-hosted database provider Cloudant announced it has received both a custom development agreement and an undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, an independent non-profit venture capital firm funded by the CIA and other U.S. intelli... |
| Aug 17, 2012 | Google’s Real Time Big Data Tool Cloned By Apache Drill | Google, as you might expect, has massive amounts of data and it’s built many tools to handle it. Stuff like MapReduce and GoogleFS, which spawned the open source Apache Hadoop, and BigTable, which spawned Apache HBase.
But Google didn’t sto... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | Cloudant, Born from Big Science, Looks to Build Big Database Business | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Big science and big technology work hand in hand. Without the World Wide Web, an idea conceived by scientists at CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research), we wouldn’t h... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Lean and technical: How we chose and furnished our office the YCombinator way | Cloudant is growing, and we recently opened offices in Seattle and the UK (in addition to our headquarters in Boston, near Cloudant’s MIT birthplace). As a YCombinator company, Cloudant is conditioned to run lean, but we also have an except... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Couchbase Releases Its First Product Since Merger: Couchbase Server | Couchbase has released its first product since its formation: Couchbase Server. It’s powered by Apache CouchDB and is available in both Enterprise and Community editions. Couchbase is the result of the merger between the companies CouchOne ... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | YC-Funded Cloudant Launches Its NoSQL Cloud Database Platform | YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work.
Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL movement, Clou... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Cloudant’s (S08) BigCouch is open-source | Read full post via blog.cloudant.com |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Cloudant's (S08) BigCouch is open-source | Read full post via blog.cloudant.com |
| Jun 10, 2010 | The future of cloud computing at Structure 2010 (VB discount included) | Structure 2010, GigaOM’s two-day event, will provide you with a content-rich look at the next three years of cloud computing. Here’s what’s on the agenda:
*10 keynote speakers and fireside chats, including VMware, IBM, Salesforce.com, Faceb... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | The Y Combinator List | We visited the Y Combinator demo day in Mountain View today, where 19 start-ups showed off their products to a group of investors and other entrepreneurs. The start-ups have emerged after eleven weeks of work, so these are very early-stage ... |
