Flexiant builds the Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator, a cloud orchestration platform aimed at service providers, hosters and telcos to help them create and monetise cloud services quickly. The product includes flexible self-service, a powerful user interface, reseller functionality, metering and billing, multi-cluster scalability, plugin trigger technology and application blueprints. Flexiant says its software enables customers to develop, launch and manage cloud service businesses within days and to increase profit, revenue and growth from cloud services. The company has customers in the UK, continental Europe, and North and South America. It has received industry recognition, including being named a 2013 Gartner "Cool Vendor" in Cloud Management and being called a "Cloud Management Trendsetter" by Info-Tech Research Group, with positive commentary from 451 Group. Recently Tern Plc invested £100,000 for a c.1% interest in the company. Flexiant is a London, UK–based vendor that helps hosters, service providers and telecom organizations build and operate cloud services. Its core product, Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator, enables cloud service provisioning through to granular metering, billing and reseller management. Customers named in the article include Cartika, FP7 Consortium, IS Group, ITEX and NetGroup. The company is led by CEO George Knox and Chairman John Pocock. Flexiant closed a £3.75m funding round whose backers were unnamed angel investors rather than venture capitalists. It plans to use the proceeds to further develop the product and expand its global presence, mainly in the US and EMEA markets. Flexiant provides cloud orchestration software that enables on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services for cloud service providers and enterprises. Led by CEO George Knox, the company’s product helps customers scale, deploy and configure services. Flexiant closed a £3m funding round led by Leopard Rock Capital, with participation from existing shareholders who contributed over £2m. The company plans to use the capital to launch Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V3.0 and to expand further in Europe and North America. Flexiant is based in London and maintains a Development and Support Centre in Livingston, Edinburgh, Scotland. Flexiant provides cloud software and infrastructure services through its Extility platform and its FlexiScale IaaS offering. The company plans to use additional capital to further develop Extility and FlexiScale and to drive its sales process. Flexiant was launched in 2007 and claims to be Europe’s first cloud platform. It is one of only three independent public cloud providers in Europe (and five worldwide) and positions itself as a competitor to Amazon’s cloud offering. The company is supplying cloud services for two EU FP7 projects in conjunction with partners including SAP, Atos Origin and Telefonica. Financially, Flexiant has raised approximately £2 million to date, including a further ~£1 million in the latest round.

Total raised

$12M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Nov 2013