Tech Company Financing Transactions

Piston Cloud Computing Funding Round

Piston Cloud Computing, based in San Francisco, secured $8 million in investment from Cisco Investments, Data Collective and Divergent Ventures.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Piston Cloud Computing
Announced On
2/4/2013
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$8,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Cisco Investments

Data Collective (Matthew Ocko)

Divergent Ventures (Kevin Ober)

HWVP (Lars Leckie)

True Ventures (Puneet Agarwal)

Proceeds Purpose
The investment will be used to fuel product development, meet the needs of Piston Cloud's rapidly expanding customer base and further deliver on the company's vision for mass adoption of OpenStack.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Software
Mailing Address
49 Geary St. 530
San Francisco, CA 94108
USA
Phone
(650) 242-5683
Website
www.pistoncloud.com
Email Address
[email protected]
Overview
Piston is focused on delivering on- and off-premise products and solutions that make Cloud Computing usable for the Enterprise. The team is composed of the major architects from the OpenStack project, recently spun out of NASA and quickly becoming the lead open source IaaS platform.
Profile
Piston Cloud Computing LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Piston Cloud Computing Company Twitter Account
Company News
Piston Cloud Computing News
Facebook
Piston Cloud Computing on Facebook
YouTube
Piston Cloud Computing on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Jim Morrisroe
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Chief Marketing Officer
Gretchen Curtis
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Chief Scientific Officer
Christopher MacGown
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Chief Technical Officer
Joshua McKenty
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VP - Bus. Development
John Spencer
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