• Acquia Expands Drupal Product Suite With Purchases Of Cyrve, Growing Venture Solutions

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    Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
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    Acquia, a commercial open source software company that provides products, services, and technical support for the Drupal social publishing system, is expanding its product portfolio with the acquisitions of Cyrve, a provider of Drupal migration services, and Growing Venture Solutions, a provider of Drupal security services.

    Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed.

    As a result of the deals, Acquia is today introducing Acquia Migration Services and Acquia Security Services for Drupal enterprise website owners.

    The first includes a suite of software tools, modules and best practices to help organizations migrate content from legacy web content management and social software systems such as WordPress or SharePoint to Drupal.

    For more perspective on the Cyrve acquisition, check out co-founder Moshe Weitzman’s blog post.

    The Acquia Security Services practice includes tools and services to assess Drupal site security and implement security strategies based on best practices.

    Acquia, which was co-founded by Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead of the open source Drupal project, recently raised $15 million of a planned $20 million equity round, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $38 million.

    Acquia backers include North Bridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, Tenaya Capital and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.


    Company: Acquia
    Website: acquia.com
    Launch Date: December 2007
    Funding: $68.5M

    Acquia is a private, fast-growth company that supports enterprises that use the free and open-source content-management system Drupal. Co-founded by Drupal’s creator in 2007, Acquia provides clients with software, consultation, hosting, and services to help them launch their sites faster and keep them running with more confidence. Acquia provides custom configurations of Drupal built to help you get up to speed quickly; Drupal-optimized cloud-based hosting; a network of tools and services designed to simplify the operation & maintenance of Drupal-based...

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