| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.06.2025 | Piston raised $7.5 M Seed funding from Spark Capital | At $7.5 million, the fintech startup Piston closed its seed round. Spark Capital led the most recent round, which raised $6.1 million. Pear VC and BOND also participated. It comes after the PearX accelerator raised $1.4 million in pre-seed ... |
| 12.06.2025 | Piston Fuels a Revolution in Fleet Payments with $6.1 Million Seed Round | In the fast-paced world of commercial transportation, every dollar counts. Fleet operators juggle numerous expenses, with fuel often being the second-largest cost after payroll. Enter Piston, a startup that aims to transform how fleets pay ... |
| 12.06.2025 | Piston Raises $7.5M in Seed Funding | Founders Vikram Sekhon and Shivam Shah
Piston, a Cupertino, CA-based provider of a cardless payments platform that connects commercial fleets and gas stations, raised $7.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Spark Capital with participat... |
| 11.06.2025 | Piston Raises $6.1 Million to Modernize Fleet Fuel Payments and Expand Network Currently, Piston serves over 120 fleets across 800 stations, processing more than $20 million in annualized volume and g... | Piston, a startup aiming to overhaul how commercial fleets and gas stations handle fuel payments, has raised $6.1 million in seed funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Pear VC and BOND. This round brings the total raised by ... |
| 10.06.2025 | Piston Raises USD 7.5 Million to Expand Cardless Fuel Payment Infrastructure for Fleets The startup plans to use the funding to expand its engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams, as well as g... | Piston, a payments platform designed for commercial fleet fuel transactions, has raised USD 7.5 million in total funding. The latest USD 6.1 million seed round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from Pear VC and BOND, following an... |
| 10.06.2025 | Piston raises $6.1M to replace fleet cards with QR code fuel payments | Piston, a payments startup aiming to modernise how commercial fleets pay for fuel, on Tuesday said it raised $6.1 million in seed funding led by Spark Capital, with additional backing from Pear VC and BOND.
This round brings Piston’s total ... |
| 27.12.2024 | Fintech company Piston plans to raise $10-12 million in series A funding to expand business in US | Fintech company Piston Technologies is planning to raise around $10-12 million in series A funding by June, 2025 to expand its business in the US.
San Francisco based Piston, a digital payment solutions provider, has recently secured an ear... |
| 08.01.2020 | Glasgow Cloud Computing Firm Receives £2M Grant from Scottish Enterprise | Beeks Financial Cloud Group, a cloud computing and connectivity provider for financial markets, has received a £2 million research and development grant from Scottish Enterprise.
The funding will be used to accelerate Beeks’ Network Automat... |
| 14.12.2016 | US-Ukrainian cloud computing startup secures $3.5 million from international investor consortium | Last week Sixa, a San Francisco-based startup which has developed developed a “personal computer in the cloud,” closed a $3.5 million round of seed funding.
According to the company’s press service, the round was led by Californian fund Tan... |
| 26.08.2016 | TMT Investments invests $300,000 in US-Ukrainian cloud computing startup | Yesterday TMT Investments announced a $300,000 capital injection in Sixa, a San Francisco-based company founded last year by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Mykola Minchenko and Ievgen Nechaiev.
Sixa has developed a “personal computer in the cloud”... |
| 10.09.2013 | Totango takes home CloudBeat 2013's midstage Innovation Showdown | 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!
SAN FRANCISCO — It seems that a new software-as-a... |
| 03.09.2013 | Meet the 10 startups competing in the CloudBeat ‘Innovation Showdown’ | We were blown away by the quality of the 200 plus cloud startup applicants to the CloudBeat 2013 Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s third annual cloud adoption event (Sept. 9-Sept. 10 in San Francisco).
We’ve narrow... |
| 30.08.2013 | VMware fires a massive volley against virtualization upstarts | SAN FRANCISCO — It has been a very good week for the virtualization giant VMware, as it drew a record-breaking 22,000 people to the Moscone Center for its lavish spectacle of a conference.
VMworld was the place to see and be seen for the in... |
| 30.08.2013 | VMware fires a massive volley against virtualization upstarts | 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!
SAN FRANCISCO — It has been a very good week for ... |
| 24.07.2013 | On Its 3rd Birthday, The Cloudy OpenStack Is A Marketing Machine, And That’s Just Fine | OSCON, the open-source conference, is in full-gear today and OpenStack is celebrating its third birthday there with lots of fanfare, self-serving platitudes and an infographic — the tell-tale mark of a “we are awesome” campaign.
While I cou... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why The Data Problem Is A Good Thing For The Open Cloud Movement | Piston Cloud Co-Founder Joshua McKenty says the OpenStack customer ecosystem has four emerging market segments. On one side are the customers who hire consultants to build them a cloud. On the other side are the IBM customers who will alway... |
| 02.04.2013 | NASA’s ex-CTO built a cloud in a box and he wants you to buy it | A Nebula cloud controller.
Nebula reader comments 29 with 26 posters participating, including story author
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| 02.04.2013 | Nearly Two Years Later, Nebula Launches A Mainframe Style “Cloud Computer” Built On OpenStack | Nebula has launched its long awaited Nebula One, a hyped but often delayed integrated system that Co-Founder and former NASA CTO Christopher Kemp calls a “cloud computer” that takes mainframes and time sharing into the future with the cloud... |
| 08.02.2013 | Big Switch Raises $6.5M From Intel Capital, Gains Attention For Next Generation Networking, Challenges Cisco | Big Switch Networks, the software defined networking (SDN) company making a play on Cisco’s turf, has raised $6.5 million from Intel Capital. The investment brings the total amount raised to $45 million from investors including Goldman Sach... |
| 05.02.2013 | Piston Cloud Computing Raises $8M in Series B Funding | Piston Cloud Computing Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based enterprise OpenStack company, raised $8m in a Series B funding.
Backers included Cisco Systems, Data Collective, Swisscom Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True Ventures.... |
| 04.02.2013 | Piston Cloud nabs $8M to bolster open source cloud adoption | 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!
Open-source cloud technology is proving to be an ... |
| 04.02.2013 | Piston Cloud nabs $8M to bolster open source cloud adoption | Open-source cloud technology is proving to be an attractive proposition for venture capitalists.
Today, OpenStack private cloud player, Piston Cloud closed an $8 million funding round. Investors see massive potential in the space, despite t... |
| 04.02.2013 | Funding Daily: Clydesdale love | 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!
San Francisco is in mourning today following yest... |
| 04.02.2013 | Piston Cloud Raises $8M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Piston Cloud has raised $8 million in new funding to fuel its push its enterprise-focused OpenStack offerings.
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| 23.10.2012 | Looking For The Next $1 Billion Open Source Company
The Database Candidate
The Big Data Candidate
The Cloud Computing Candidate | It’s been just under seven months since Red Hat became the world’s first $1 billion open-source company. Now the question is who will follow suit and become the next open source company to hit this milestone?
Before sorting through the list... |
| 22.08.2012 | Piston Cloud Airframe — A Free Starter Package For Building An OpenStack Cloud | Piston Cloud has built a free OpenStack distribution that is promised to include what is needed to evaluate the open cloud environment.
To really create a cloud environment and to make it useful, you can’t have it dependent on someone else ... |
| 13.08.2012 | Red Hat's OpenStack preview debuts, supported version due in 2013 | Red Hat released a preview of its OpenStack cloud platform, and says a fully supported version will debut in 2013. The move puts the open-source software company in direct competition with Citrix and its CloudStack offering, a move aimed to... |
| 26.07.2012 | Cisco Touts Its Cloudy Open Future – Will VMware Do The Same? | Lew Tucker is the distinguished Cloud CTO for Cisco Systems. He’s a revered character in the “clouderati,” community for his clear views and his support for OpenStack, the open cloud effort that is getting a lot of attention these past few ... |
| 21.07.2012 | Cloudwashing Failed – Now We Need New Metaphors | I’ve talked with thousands of people over the past few years about the “cloud.”
What’s apparent? The real cloud services providers like Amazon Web Services have won. Cloudwashing has failed. The losers are back pedaling.The winners are the ... |
| 19.07.2012 | Know Your Cloud: A Service Similar To Google Analytics For Amazon Web Services | Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively offering a service called reserve instances. For a one-time fee, companies may have the option to launch an EC2 instance for one or three years. AWS maintains it lowers costs as you get a choice of ... |
| 10.02.2012 | Cloud Computing Co Nivio Gets $21M From AEC Partners, Videocon Group | Cloud computing firm nivio, which allows subscribers to rent software applications from companies like Microsoft and Adobe, has secured $21 million (Rs 104 crore) from the Videocon Group and AEC Partners, a US-based private equity firm spec... |
| 02.10.2011 | OpenStack Leader: Open Source Needs to Rethink Its Priorities | Philosophically, the open source concept borrows some selected elements from socialism. It upholds a notion of the “common good,” it eschews the appearance of authority or hierarchy, and it often frowns upon capitalizing on one’s own work, ... |
| 26.09.2011 | Piston Cloud Launches pentOS, An Enterprise OpenStack Distribution | Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud computing project tha... |
| 12.07.2011 | Piston Cloud Computing Raises $4.5M in Funding | Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based software company developing commercialized OpenStack software for businesses, has raised $4.5m in funding.
The round was led by Hummer Winblad and True Ventures, with participation fro... |
| 01.04.2011 | IBM invests $38 million in cloud computing | IBM is investing $38 million in a new Asia Pacific cloud computing data centre in Singapore, which will provide businesses in India with solutions and services to harness the potential of cloud computing.
The facility will extend IBM's glob... |
| 13.01.2010 | Microsoft And HP Invest $250 Million In Joint Cloud Computing Venture | Yesterday, Microsoft and HP announced a joint call to discuss a significant partnership. Now we know what it is. According to another announcement issued today, the two tech giants are jointly investing $250 million in a cloud computing ven... |
| 15.10.2009 | Cloud Computing Firm Saaspoint Raises $2M | Saaspoint, a cloud computing consulting and applications company, has raised $2m to support the next phase of its development.
Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Government agency responsible for the development of local businesses, and other pr... |
| - | Introducing Piston Cloud Computing | We are thrilled to announce our recent investment in Piston Cloud Computing along side Hummer Winblad, Divergent Ventures and other prominent angels.
At True, we have been following OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, very c... |
| - | Why We Invested in Helpshift | The good news: whatever it is, there is likely “an app for that.”
The bad news: apps don’t always work the way they should, sometimes providing more headaches than help.
Enter Helpshift, an innovative SaaS company creating a mobile-specif... |
