Massachusetts-based Acquia closed an $8 Million series B funding round led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners today. Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
Of course, Vancouver remains a Drupal hotbed with Raincity Studios, ImageX, Work at Play and Appnovation all Acquia partners.
VentureBeat reported today that 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 including scalable cloud hosting for bigger Drupal sites and Acquia Gardens, a software-as-a-service version of Drupal meant for smaller publishers and to compete head-on with the all-mighty WordPress.
ImageX is an award-winning Drupal website design, development & consulting firm, integrating inspired design with the most powerful and flexible... [more]
Founded: December 2003 by Robert Scales Principals: Robert Scales, CEO Kris Krug, President Mark Yuasa, Creative Director Erik Hermans, Production... [more]
Work at Play is an independent digital agency that provides strategy, creative, and development for large organizations and agency partners. We... [more]
We are a Vancouver interactive agency specializing in developing web sites and web applications using the Drupal, Alfresco and iPhone platforms. We... [more]
Rob Lewis
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His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University.
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