• Scale Computing

  Participated · Series D · Oct 2012

  Scale Computing builds hyperconverged infrastructure and edge computing products that virtualize customers’ infrastructure by combining servers, storage, a hypervisor, and backup/data recovery into a single system. Its self-healing platform centralizes management of remote sites via a console that surfaces device health, flags issues, and logs events to simplify operations for distributed IT teams. The company positions its software to replace traditional silos of virtualization, disaster recovery, servers, and shared storage, promising higher resiliency and uptime even with limited local IT staff. Scale claims more than 6,000 customers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia‑Pacific region and employs roughly 160 people; revenue figures were not disclosed. Founded in 2007 by Jeff Ready, Jason Collier, and Scott Loughmiller, Scale plans to use new funding to expand its leadership in edge computing through investments in people and R&D and to restructure debt. Management emphasizes cost savings and improved IT confidence for customers as core benefits driving demand. Scale Computing’s core product is the HC3 Edge platform, a hyperconverged, self-healing system built on patented HyperCore™ technology that identifies, mitigates, and corrects hardware and software issues in real time. The HC3 software replaces traditional virtualization, backup, DR, servers, and shared storage to run mission-critical applications in distributed enterprise, retail, and SMB environments with limited onsite IT staff. Scale positions the platform as “set-it-and-forget-it,” reducing local infrastructure management and eliminating the need for multiple third-party products. Recent customer wins cited in the company release include Ahold Delhaize, Genting Group, Jerry’s Enterprises, and Farm Bureau Insurance. Scale reported revenue has more than doubled over the past two years, with retail-sector sales up 4x. The company is pursuing global expansion through a recently announced partnership with Lenovo to reach retailers, distributed enterprises, and SMBs worldwide. Scale Computing delivers hyper-converged appliances that combine storage, servers, and virtualization software in a single, appliance-based system managed as one server. The company’s architecture requires no separate virtualization software licenses and no external storage purchases. Led by CEO Jeff Ready and based in Indianapolis, the company serves over 1,100 customers across healthcare, education, manufacturing, financial services, and government verticals. Scale is expanding its distribution network through partners such as CDW and Dell. The product positioning emphasizes simplicity and reduced component licensing for customers. The company intends to use new capital to develop and launch additional products for global customers. Scale Computing, founded in 2009 and based in Indianapolis, builds the HC3 hyperconverged platform that integrates servers, storage, virtualization and management into a single automated system. The company focuses on the middle-market data storage segment and is described as a pioneer in hyperconvergence. Scale intends to use the newly raised funds to build out sales and marketing and to extend research and development. The announced funding round’s size and instrument were not disclosed; backers included First Analysis, the Indiana University Foundation and prior investors. Scale has previously raised more than $50m from outside investors. The company is led by CEO Jeff Ready, and Craig Nankervis of First Analysis joined the board in conjunction with the financing. Scale Computing builds HC3, a datacenter-in-a-box appliance that combines servers, storage, and virtualization in a single integrated, scalable system. The company emphasizes eliminating ongoing hypervisor licensing fees, leveraging open-source technologies, and simplifying support to reduce cost and complexity versus competitors such as EMC and VMware. HC3 launched in late August and rapidly gained traction, accounting for half of Scale’s Q3 sales and approaching 100 deployments. Scale plans to use new funding to accelerate HC3 growth, continue product development, and launch a partner program later this year. Management sees a large midmarket opportunity, citing over one million U.S. companies that could virtualize for the first time.

• ddmap.com

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2012

  ddmap.com operates a mobile coupon app, ddcoupon, and provides lifestyle information services. The company intends to use new financing to develop its mobile internet business across forty urban markets and to promote ddcoupon. ddcoupon has recorded nearly 10 million downloads and offers more than 50,000 coupons for dining, entertainment, leisure, beauty salons and personal care services. The service is available in nearly 40 cities in China and is expanding into small- and medium-sized cities and regions. As of January 2012, ddcoupon is available on Windows Phone, iOS, Android and Symbian. The company was founded in 2005 and is led by CEO Xu Longjiang.

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