Appirio, a San Mateo, Calif.-based cloud solution provider, has received a strategic investment of undisclosed amount.
Investors include GGV Capital and Salesforce.com.
The company intends to use the proceeds to expand internationally in the European and Asia Pacific markets through a combination of organic and inorganic growth.
Led by CEO Chris Barbin, Appirio works with enterprises to adopt, connect and extend cloud platforms like Salesforce.com, Google and Workday. It serves more than 250 customers, including City of Los Angeles, Facebook, Flextronics, Home Depot, International Hotels Group, Japan Post Network, Ltd., L’Oreal, NetApp, NYU, Starbucks, Thomson Reuters and VMware.
In February 2011, the company launched CloudSpokes, a crowdsourcing community for cloud development, which has already added nearly 20,000 members across more than 60 countries.
Appirio has offices in the U.S. and Japan.
FinSMEs
26/08/2011