Docker, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based open platform for distributed applications, raised $95m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Coatue, Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust and existing investors Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Trinity Ventures and Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to for integration with partners such as AWS, IBM and Microsoft, who have made strategic product investments in support of Docker’s open source technology, and expansion of capabilities across the application development lifecycle.
Led by Ben Golub, CEO, and Solomon Hykes, CTO, Docker is the company behind the Docker open source platform, and the chief sponsor of the Docker ecosystem.
Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, and run distributed applications fastly, efficienctly and easily. Containers have been downloaded 300 million times.
Docker is used by developers across thousands of innovative organizations, including eBay, Baidu, the BBC, Groupon, ING, Yelp, Spotify, Yandex, and Cambridge HealthCare.
FinSMEs
14/04/2015