Google entices Chrome OS developers with prospect of native-like apps

by melody on May 17, 2013

info-worldGoogle handed out Chromebook Pixels to the hundreds of attendees here at Google I/Oin San Francisco, a clear indication of the company’s high hopes for the lightweight platform. The trick is to convince developers that coding for Chrome OS is worth their time and they aren’t just cranking out glorified Web apps.

To that end, Google has used I/O as a forum to showcase apps built on its revamped Packaged App Platform. Packaged apps are written in HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, delivering a native-app-like experience, whether or not a user has a reliable Internet connection. Chrome Packaged Apps aren’t tied to a browser with the address bar, tab strip, and other browser interface elements; developers can create them to look like any standard native app.

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Clustrix Raises $16.5

by Leigh Anne Varney on May 10, 2013

pehubClustrix, a San Francisco-based developer of clustered databases to help make them manageable and searchable, has raised a $16.5 million Series C round of funding from current investors Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures and individual investor Don Listwin, a former executive of Cisco. The company, which was founded in late 2005 and came out of Y Combinator, has raised now raised $46.5 million to date. CEO Robin Purohit told peHUB that the company will likely raise more funding in the next year to bring it to cash-flow positive. “And then we’ll see where the public markets are,” he said.

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Clustrix Raises $16.5M for Scale-Out SQL Database

May 7, 2013

Clustrix, a provider of a scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, announced the completion of a $16.5 million Series C round of funding. The company said this round of funding will be used to help distribute its software to a variety of public and private cloud platforms. Read the article

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Database Startup Clustrix Builds Up its Bankroll

May 7, 2013

Tech watchers once considered the database market pretty stagnant, at least in terms of new technology and new entrants. Suddenly it is anything but that, with Clustrix a prime example. The San Francisco-based company, which is announcing $16.5 million in new funding Monday, labored in secrecy for four years before unveiling software designed for a [...]

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Clustrix nets $16.5M to push its database outside the box

May 7, 2013

NewSQL company will use its new cash to make its proprietary database more easily available to developers via their cloud infrastructure of choice, says CEO Robin Purohit. Read the article

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Clustrix Raises $16.5M

May 7, 2013

This morning Clustrix announced they have raised $16.5M in a Series C round from Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures and Don Listwin. They are one of the earliest Y Combinator companies, founded in 2005 with nearly $47 million raised to date. Clustrix was ranked #5 on our Y Combinator Index for April. The Benefits of MySQL Without [...]

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