Acquia closes new Series B $8M Round

 Acquia reported closing an $8 million Series B round for total funding of $15 million. Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. Acquia is linked with the Drupal.org open source community in much the same way that Red Hat is connected with the Linux community. The latest round included North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. The company has about 40 employees and over 200 clients. Acquia claims there are currently about 400,000 web sites built with Drupal with that number doubling every year.

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Acquia, the commercial

Acquia, the commercial open-source software company that sells its own version of the popular Drupal content management system, has closed an $8M series B funding round led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners 000-223 dumps.
Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s creator who now serves as Acquia’s CTO, says the funding will be used to accelerate the company’s existing support business, which is its primary source of revenue. The company also plans new products. One is scalable cloud hosting for bigger Drupal sites, which would handle both their Drupal and MySQL scaling needs JN0-303 dumps. The other is Acquia Gardens, a software-as-a-service version of Drupal meant for smaller publishers who might currently use WordPress or similar software.
VentureBeat’s current website developer, nclud, are Drupal fans 70-298 dumps. Nclud co-founder Martin Ringlein gave me a rundown today in which he said Development Seed’s Drupal-powered, open-source intranet package, Open Atrium, would be a widely adopted Drupal-based package.