Former Microsoft Execs Lead $10 Million Round In Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku
Ruby Cloud Platform as a Service provider Heroku has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Ignition Partners with existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital participating. John Connors, General Partner with Ignition and former CFO/CIO of Microsoft has joined the company’s board of directors. This brings the company’s total funding to over $13 million.
Founded in 2007, the Y-Combinator-backed startup develops a Ruby on Rails development and hosting environment. Heroku aims to make software development more accessible for a wider range of people. It does so by providing a browser-based programming environment that cuts out steps traditionally needed to produce RoR applications. Heroku’s application management platform combines runtime technology for cloud scalability with tools and automation for developer productivity.
And Heroku is seeing considerable traction with its platform. There are currently 60,000 apps running on Heroku today, including apps for the iPad, Facebook, Twitter and the iPhone. Clients include Shopify, Comcast and BestBuy. The funding will be used to further product development and expand the platform. Heroku faces competition from Engine Yard.
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Big congrats to Heroku. I am a satisfied customer with my language learning site iLearnWords, a side project that I don’t have much time to invest in. I was able to deploy my app despite being a Rails newbie. These guys provide cutting-edge tech for Ruby apps, and highly responsive support.
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“…It does so by providing a browser-based programming environment…”.
It’s not programming environment, it rather browser-based deployment and scalability management environments.
RoR apps tradditionally were a big hassle to deploy and manage – and Heroku takes care of the messy part.
You just do programming
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Small correction. Heroku no longer provides a “browser-based programming environment”. This was called Heroku Garden and has been phased out:
http://herokugarden.com/transition/
Congrats to the team! Heroku is a great product.
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Congrats!
Heroku is extremely well-built and friendly environment for Ruby on Rails development.
Anyone literally you may start in minutes and practice your way up.
GitHub + Heroku = rocks!!!
Gleb
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Congrats, guys! James, Adam, and Orion are a first-rate team. They will use this round to build Heroku into a monster company.
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