提供企业内部应用商店的Apperian获1200万美元C轮融资
移动应用管理初创企业 Apperian 刚刚获得了 1200 万美元的 C 轮融资。
Apperian 是一家提供移动应用管理（MAM）的初创企业，成立于 2009年，总部位于波士顿，现有员工 67 人。所谓移动应用管理，是指提供内部开发的移动应用并对其进行管理，从某种意义上来说，可以视其为企业内部的应用商店。其契机是有一部分企业要求提供类似苹果应用商店或 Google Play 这样的公共移动应用集散地，供其在内部发布移动应用。要知道 2007年iPhone 才刚刚推出，2年 后 Apperian 就开始进入企业移动应用市场，这种当时消费者化为主流的移动市场还是需要眼光和勇气的。
从企业移动应用的发展轨迹来看，大多数企业一开始主要把注意力集中在移动设备管理（MDM）上，只是到了最近几年才开始慢慢扩大到移动应用的管理（因为一开始企业并没有多少移动 app）。因此，移动应用管理的功能是很多 MDM 平台的功能扩展，像被 VMWare 收购的 AirWatch、被黑莓收购的 Good Technology 就是这样。不过 Apperian 跟此类竞争对手的不同在于，它支持应用封装、独立应用容器，提供了移动应用安全与动态策略控制，允许客户在 MDM 系统之外部署 MAM，这样的话 Apperian 的客户可以向自己的合作伙伴、第三方人员等提供定制 app，从而更加灵活地进行移动应用管理。
目前 Apperian 的客户包括 Aetna、AT&T、Emory Healthcare、Reed Elsevier、丰田以及 Walgreens 等数千个组织，通过 Apperian 发布的移动应用已经超过了 170 万。
此轮融资由 First Floor Capital 领投，Bessemer Venture Partners、KPCB、North Bridge Venture Partners、Intel Capital 等跟投，此轮融资过后其总融资额已达 3900 万美元。此轮融资所得将用于加强市场营销、产品开发以及增加人力。此轮的领投方 First Floor Capital 是一家马来西亚的投资公司，Apperian 选择这家 VC 的部分目的正是在于希望借此来拓展亚洲市场。
APPERIAN CLOSES $12 MILLION IN SERIES C FUNDING AS IT TRANSFORMS THE ENTERPRISE MOBILITY MARKET
Company Growth Accelerates as App-Centric Security and Management Take Center Stage and MDM Alone is Deemed Insufficient
BOSTON – September 9, 2015 – Apperian® Inc., the mobile application management and security company, today announced it has completed a $12 million Series C funding round. New investor First Floor Capital joins Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, North Bridge Venture Partners, Intel Capital and CommonAngels Ventures in backing Apperian. The funding will be used to fuel growth and platform innovation as CIOs and line-of-business leaders increasingly need to secure and manage the proliferation of apps and data in the enterprise.
MAM Offers a Superior Solution to the Enterprise
With enterprise apps, BYOD and contracted workforces on the rise, enterprises are increasingly tasked with supporting an environment of unmanaged devices – mobile devices not under corporate mobile device management (MDM). This creates a barrier that prevents organizations from securely distributing critical mobile apps to the users who need them.
As Gartner’s August 2015 report, ‘How to Live With Unmanaged Mobile Devices’ states “Gartner clients who have tried MDM and have received poor feedback from their workforce, which perceives it as too invasive on their mobile devices, have been inquiring about alternative methods to securely provide enterprise access from mobile devices.”
Even organizations using MDM are seeking out additional layers of security and technology to insulate apps that matter. In “Mobile Applications and Cloud: Companies, Vendors Take Aim at Mobilizing Business Workflows,” 451 Research states, “Enterprise mobility management built around applications represents the future of ensuring enterprise data is protected and locked down and end users have the access they need to mobile service.”
These trends have driven demand for and adoption of Apperian’s mobile app security and management platform. The new funding will enable the company to accelerate delivery of new security and management capabilities as its technology has evolved into the industry’s most extensible platform.
Since completing its B round in January 2013, Apperian has:
Increased its annualized recurring revenue by more than 250%
Increased users under management by 400%
Enabled more than 1.7 million app deployments
Nearly doubled its average account size
Won numerous Fortune 500 and public sector customer engagements, including Aetna, AT&T, Emory Healthcare, Reed Elsevier, Toyota and Walgreens. Increasingly, Apperian is being selected as the corporate system of record for mobile app security and management
“Arming our employees with mobile apps that provide easy access to key systems has been a key initiative to improve the company’s productivity,” said Cheryl Van, Head of Learning and Development at RMS. “Delivering intuitive and private access to these mobile apps is incredibly fast and easy to maintain with Apperian. We’re driving high levels of secure adoption and our team members simply appreciate easy access via their personal mobile devices.”
“We’ve experienced incredible growth in demand for our platform over the past year as organizations are running into the limitations of traditional, device-centric enterprise mobility management products,” said Brian Day, CEO of Apperian. “Some of the world’s largest companies and public sector organizations have turned to Apperian for app-centric security and management methods so they can securely reach every single user. We’re excited to see this validation of our approach from new and existing customers, investors and analysts alike.”
To learn more about Apperian’s Enterprise App Store and Mobile Application Management platform, please visitwww.apperian.com.
About Apperian
Apperian is the leading enterprise-class mobile application management (MAM®) and security platform for the delivery of critical apps to 100% of users across an organization. Apperian provides fine-grained security and dynamic policy controls at the individual app level for deployments where mobile device management approaches are not possible or desired, such as BYOD, contract workers and other unmanaged devices.
Apperian’s easy to use interface offers a private, branded consumer-like enterprise app store that greatly increases mobile app adoption and a comprehensive app management back-end for administrators to easily protect and manage their business apps and data. The company has helped IT and line of business professionals secure and deliver more than 1.7 million enterprise apps to organizations such as Maxim Integrated Products, NVIDIA, Nationwide, New Balance, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
来源： Apperian
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2015年09月10日
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数据可视化服务BlueData完成2000万美元C轮融资，Intel领投
数据可视化服务 BlueData 完成 2000 万美元 C 轮融资，Intel 领投 本轮投资由 Intel 领投，Intel 高级副总裁 Doug Fisher 加入 BlueData 董事会。
同时 Intel 与 BlueData 宣布达成战略合作。Amplify Partners, Atlantic Bridge, Ignition Partners 和一家匿名的战略投资者也参与了投资。
BlueData 由两位VMware校友创办，帮助客户将大数据集群进行可视化处理，基于 Hadoop 或是 Spark 为用户提供服务。最近 BlueData 基于 OpenStack 开发了一个使用KVM虚拟机的Epic平台，将Hadoop中各种不同的系统存储的各种不同格式的数据进行统一处理。
本文编译自：TC
Big Data Vendor BlueData Announces $20M Round And Intel Partnership
BlueData, a company that helps customers generate virtualized big data clusters, announced a $20 million Series C round and a partnership with Intel today.
Intel Capital led the round. Also participating were Amplify Partners, Atlantic Bridge, Ignition Partners, as well as a strategic investor who chose to remain anonymous. As part of the deal, Doug Fisher, senior vice president of Intel and general manager of its Software and Services Group, will join BlueData’s board of directors.
BlueData’s founders have their roots in VMware. The goal with BlueData has been to make it as easy to spin up a Hadoop cluster as it is a virtual machine, company founder and CEO Kumar Sreekanti told TechCrunch.
“Enterprises require efficient and agile implementations for their on-premises big data solutions. Speed and innovation are essential in big data analytics, and the infrastructure can’t slow this down.” Sreekanti wrote in a blog post.
The product is essentially Hadoop- or Spark-as-a Service, but instead of living in the cloud, it resides on-premises on customer hardware. It combines the agility, speed and multi-tenancy of the cloud with the performance of running on bare metal in the data center.
What’s more, it works with any version of Hadoop or Apache Spark. The company is also planning on supporting Docker containers in an upcoming release.
The deal with Intel will involve several levels including engineers from both companies working together. BlueData will also have early access to new hardware releases. The idea is that BlueData will work to optimize its products on Intel architecture, particularly Intel Xeon chips.
The two companies will also work together on joint marketing and sales projects, and Intel will provide BlueData with the entree at the large enterprise customers it craves.
The partnership has the potential to be a huge boost to a small company like BlueData, which currently has 35 employees. The agreement is part of Intel’s ongoing effort to support big data companies, and comes on the heels of a similar deal with Cloudera, a BlueData partner, last year.
This isn’t the first time, Intel has shown interest in BlueData. It also contributed to the company’s Series A and B round.
Intel has been spreading the wealth this week. Just yesterday, it announced a big cloud push to go with its big data initiative. As part of that, it invested significant money and resources in Mirantis , an OpenStack company.
Since it launched in 2012 BlueData has raised a fairly modest $39 million across three rounds including today’s announcement — and it wasn’t looking for a big score this time.
“We weren’t looking for a huge amount of money. It’s too early for that,” Sreekanti said.
Sreekanti wouldn’t say exactly how many customers it has, but it lists several on the company website including Comcast, Orange and Symantec.
北森获得 1.1 亿元 C 轮融资，由经纬中国、青宥仟和领投人才管理软件云服务提供商北森刚刚宣布，其已获得由经纬中国、青宥仟和领投，红杉中国跟投的 1.1 亿元 C 轮融资。北森 CEO 纪伟国表示，这笔融资后，北森的估值接近 10 亿人民币。
北森是一款覆盖人才测评、招聘管理、绩效管理、继任与发展、360 度评估反馈、员工调查等业务的一体化人才管理软件平台。据官方的数据，其成立 12 年来，已服务了 4500 余家企业、上千万员工，日处理十余万人才数据。
北森此前还获得了两轮融资
2010 年 8 月，获得深创投 1000 万元 A 轮融资
2013 年 2 月，获得经纬、红杉 1000 万美金 B 轮融资
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2015年04月28日
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云服务商UCloud宣布获近亿美元C轮融资
4月9日消息，国内云服务商UCloud今日宣布获近亿美金C轮融资。不过，暂时无法证实具体融资金额。
UCloud本次融资由君联资本领投，VMS Legend Investment Fund I、DCM、贝塔斯曼、光信资本跟投，是国内IaaS（Infrastructure as a Service，基础设施即服务）领域单笔最大融资金额。
此前，UCloud已于2013年11月获得DCM领投，贝塔斯曼跟投的A轮投资，并于2014年6月获得由君联资本、贝塔斯曼领投，DCM跟投的B轮投资。
UCloud方面表示，本轮资金将被用于更深入技术研发，深耕系统软件及大数据领域；并开启全球精英招募工作，以CEO季昕华、COO华琨、CTO莫显峰、高级VP陈晓建为核心的导师团将赴硅谷招募精英人才。
知情人士透露，UCloud已承接部分海外企业在国内的业务，也陆续有来自硅谷的高端人才加盟。此外，该笔资金还将用于更为广泛的市场拓展。
来源：腾讯科技讯（乐天）
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2015年04月09日
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中小企业商业管理初创企业Booker获3500万美元C轮融资
为美容、保健、家装等服务行业中小企业提供基于云的一体化商业服务管理的 Booker 近日获得了 3500 万美元的 C 轮融资。
Booker 是一家为中小企业提供预约管理、CRM、市场营销、忠诚管理、POS 系统、业务分析等一系列配套商业服务管理的初创企业，成立于 2010 年，总部位于纽约。其目标是为所有企业建立一个基于云端的“统一平台”，帮助当地企业实现在线的商业管理，以及消费者与服务的无缝对接。
虽然面临着 Netsuite、Intuit 以及 SAP 等的竞争，不过预约方便快捷是 Booker 的优势之一。它提供了多种预约的实现方式，包括在服务提供商的网站、移动 app、手机 web 等，也可以将日程安排和预约植入到 SMB 的 Facebook 主页上。
Booker 的客户属于典型的中小企业，其年收入大概在 25 万到 100 万美元之间。视行业不同，其月服务费约在 100—150 美元左右。2年前Booker已有超过 6 万的客户，用户横跨多个垂直领域，包括保健、家居装饰、美容院等。目前，其平台每月登记的预约数超过了 300 万，月交易额已超过 20 亿美元。
此轮融资由 Medina Capital 领投，Jump Capital、Signal Peak Ventures 两家新投资者及 Bain Capital Ventures 等原有投资者跟投，大型支付终端提供商 First Data 作为战略投资者也参与了投资。此轮融资过后，其总融资额已达 7700 万美元。此轮融资所得拟用于教育、宠物美容等垂直市场的业务扩展。
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