Cloudkick

http://cloudkick.com/

Last activity: 21.07.2020

Probably Closed

Categories: CloudHealthTechInformationInfrastructureProductionTools

Cloudkick is system to manage cloud servers, such as the Rackspace Cloud and Amazon's EC2. Cloudkick provides an easy to use monitoring/alerting solution to support your production infrastructure on the cloud. Cloudkick also gives you a window into your cloud deployment by providing detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. Cloudkick's mission is to make cloud servers easy to use, where ever the customer needs them.

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Location

United States, California, San Francisco

Total raised

$2.75M

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 2

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Sep 14, 2009	Funding round	$750K

Mentions in press and media 28

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Aug 20, 2013	Celebrities (but not Ashton Kutcher) share their top cloud & infrastructure picks at YC	MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The technology world was out in force to meet and mingle with the entrepreneurs graduating from Y Combinator, dubbed “Silicon Valley’s startup machine.” And so were the celebs. In their two-and-a-half minute pitch on...
Mar 31, 2011	Cloudkick Founder Alex Polvi on the Experience of Getting Acquired by Rackspace in Startup Year One	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Alex Polvi is on the tech world’s express elevator. Just a few years ago, the 25-year-old computer science graduate from Oregon State University was a system administrator at ...
Dec 22, 2010	Exits for Two More Y Combinator Startups, Movity and Etacts	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints It’s been a busy month for young startups backed by the Mountain View, CA-based venture incubator Y Combinator. Salesforce.com revealed a couple of weeks ago that it had acqui...
Dec 16, 2010	Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick	Hosting company Rackspace is acquiring Y Combinator-backed startup Cloudkick, which offers a full-fledged server management system to businesses. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cloudkick, which launched in early 2009, provides detail...
Dec 16, 2010	Rackspace picks up cloud performance monitoring startup Cloudkick	Cloudkick, a developer of web applications that help manage cloud computing environments, announced today that it has agreed to be bought out by cloud computing provider Rackspace for an undisclosed sum. Rackspace is one of several companie...
Dec 16, 2010	Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (W09)	Hosting company Rackspace is acquiring Y Combinator-backed startup Cloudkick, which offers a full-fledged server management system to businesses. Full article via techcrunch.com
Dec 15, 2010	Another Giant Gets Another Sexy Startup: Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick	Just two years after starting its business, Cloudkick has been acquired by Rackspace. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. What this means for Cloudkick is a big ramp up in its operations. It will also establish a presence for Rackspac...
Oct 14, 2010	Cloudkick (W09) Now Managing 1 Million Servers	Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, has hit a few milestones today. The startup is now managing 1,000,000 servers around the world. Full article via techcrunchit.com
Oct 14, 2010	Cloudkick Now Managing 1 Million Servers	Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, has hit a few milestones today. The startup is now managing 1,000,000 servers around the world. Cloudkick provides detailed graphs on the...
Oct 6, 2010	5 Things Hollywood’s Power Players Can Teach Entrepreneurs	Startups and Hollywood are more alike than we give credit. After nearly 12 months at a Y-Combinator company in Silicon Valley, I find myself noticing an eerie resemblance between my previous life in the film industry in NY/LA. This week’s r...
Sep 19, 2010	Google Apps Adopts 2-Factor Authentication	Google Apps is launching two-factor authentication, allowing the capability to verify a person’s identity with a code sent to the user’s mobile device. Most Web-based services still use systems that require people to sign in to their accoun...
Aug 27, 2010	Y Combinator and Facebook teaming up	Product, technical and design support for social based start up companies Facebook is teaming up with venture capital firm, Y Combinator, to encourage the creation of social-media-based startups. Startups that participate in the joint progr...
Aug 27, 2010	Coalitions and Communities – 3 Cloud Initiatives from the Summer of 2010	As we wrote yesterday, the summer of 2010 has been marked in the cloud computing world by open-sourcing technologies and multi-vendor agreements. We started the summer with OpenStack, the Rackspace and NASA open-cloud initiative. Earlier th...
Aug 24, 2010	Leftronic Dashboards Optimize Your Data Displays	YCombinator-funded company Leftronic launches today, offering up software that makes it easy for companies to aggregate data in their ambient displays, i.e. a displays mounted on a wall. Founded by Lionel Jingles, Rajiv Ghanta and Jyotindra...
Jul 16, 2010	YC-Funded PagerDuty Makes Sure Your Team Knows When A Server Goes Down	Server downtime is a fact of life for most web administrators, and there’s no shortage of products and software that make it easy to monitor when something has gone awry. Of course, an inbox full of urgent emails telling you your server is ...
Apr 28, 2010	Cloud management startup Cloudkick (W09) raises another $2M	via deals.venturebeat.com
Apr 28, 2010	Cloud management startup Cloudkick raises another $2M	Cloudkick, a startup that helps companies and developers run their applications using online infrastructure, has added another $2 million to its first round of funding. The San Francisco startup promises to make it easier to manage web appl...
Mar 31, 2010	Cloudkick Broadens its Scope: Now Monitors the Datacenter	Cloudkick is a cloud monitoring start-up that helps system admins manage cloud servers. Today, the company announced it is getting physical, bringing its cloud monitoring capabilities to internally hosted servers and virtual machines. The c...
Jan 25, 2010	Cloudkick Rolls Out Freemium Model For Server Management System	Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, is rolling out its freemium model and additional features. Cloudkick provides detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to...
Dec 31, 2009	From A Geek's Geek: Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009	When Daniel Raffel emailed and asked if we’d be interested in publishing his list of favorite stuff from 2009 we quickly agreed. He has worked on some of the more interesting projects in Silicon Valley over the last couple of years, and has...
Sep 14, 2009	Cloudkick’s simple cloud management gets $750K	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! Updated With more companies looking to move their...
Sep 14, 2009	Cloudkick’s simple cloud management gets $750K	Updated With more companies looking to move their applications onto cloud infrastructure, startups are emerging that offer services to facilitate that process. Cloudkick, for example, says it has built the easiest way manage your applicatio...
Sep 7, 2009	Is it time for businesses to embrace the cloud?	This is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts. Cloud computing has become a magic phrase o...
Apr 24, 2009	Cloudkick Now Lets You Migrate Your Amazon Machine Images To Slicehost	Cloudkick, a Y Combinator startup that offers a free server management system to businesses whose web infrastructure is maintained by Amazon’s EC2 or Slicehost cloud-based servers, is unveiling a nifty feature today at Under the Radar. Clou...
Mar 18, 2009	Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009	The 16 startups from Y Combinator’s spring session presented their ideas and initial products at Y Combinator’s Silicon Valley office this afternoon. Of the 16 startups in this group, 8 have already launched, 6 are in the process of launchi...
Mar 18, 2009	Y Combinator Demo Day: Simple cloud management, real-time energy monitoring, and more	If anyone’s feeling depressed about the future of Silicon Valley innovation, I’d suggest sneaking into the demo day tomorrow at incubator Y Combinator‘s Mountain View, Calif. office. Watching a bunch of smart, ambitious entrepreneurs show o...
Mar 16, 2009	Use Cloudkick To Manage Amazon Web Services' EC2	Cloudkick, a Y Combinator startup, offers a free, easy server management system to businesses whose web infrastructure is maintained by Amazon’s EC2 or Slicehost cloud-based servers. Built off of Amazon Web Services’ API, Cloudkick gives us...

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FAQ about Cloudkick

How much funding has Cloudkick raised?

Cloudkick has raised $2.75M in total across 2 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has Cloudkick raised?

Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Cloudkick, among them a funding round of $750K on Sep 14, 2009.

What has the press written about Cloudkick?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning Cloudkick, among them “Celebrities (but not Ashton Kutcher) share their top cloud & infrastructure picks at YC” (Aug 20, 2013) and “Cloudkick Founder Alex Polvi on the Experience of Getting Acquired by Rackspace in Startup Year One” (Mar 31, 2011).

Is Cloudkick still active?

Cloudkick is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.