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Runa Capital kicks off new fund as it joins the VC ‘Scramble for Europe’ by moving to Luxembourg

TechCrunch understands Runa Capital, which launched in 2010, has raised $55 million toward its fourth fund, aiming for a target of $250 million. The company is declinging to comment. However, after 12

Why F5 spent $2.2B on 3 companies to focus on cloud native applications

It’s essential for older companies to recognize changes in the marketplace or face the brutal reality of being left in the dust. F5 is an old-school company that launched back in the 90s, yet ha

Study finds most big open-source startups outside Bay Area, many European, and avoiding VC

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. The “ROSS Index

Runa Capital closes Fund III at $157M, with an added focus on quantum computing

VC fund Runa Capital was launched with $135 million in 2010, and is perhaps best known for its investment into NGINX, which powers many web sites today. In more recent years it has participated or led

The meaning of Nginx and F5

F5 Networks took a dive yesterday after the company announced it was acquiring open-source web server NGINX. While media coverage of the deal was largely positive, the public markets appeared much mor

F5 acquires NGINX for $670M to move into open-source, multi-cloud services

Multi-cloud architecture is a huge trend in enterprise, and today F5 made a big move to bring its own business closer to it. The company, which provides cloud and security application services, annou

Nginx lands $43 million Series C to fuel expansion

Nginx, the commercial company behind the open source web server, announced a $43 million Series C investment today led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. NEA, which has been on board as an early investor

Nginx goes beyond its server roots and launches its application platform

Nginx, in its commercial and open source forms, is one of the most popular load balancers, proxies, web and application servers on the internet today. But Nginx Inc, the company behind the project, wa

NGINX Plus’s latest release puts the focus on security

NGINX, the company behind the popular open-source NGINX server, launched the latest version (R10) of its NGINX Plus commercial offering today. Like similar open-source companies, NGINX offers its core

NGINX’s Amplify monitoring tool is now in public beta

NGINX today launched Amplify, its new application monitoring tool, out of private beta. While the cloud-based tool is still officially in beta, it’s now available to all NGINX users — both

NGINX Brings HTTP/2 Support To Its Commercial Release

NGINX, the well-funded and increasingly popular web and application server company, today announced that it now supports HTTP/2, the next generation of the HTTP standard, in its latest commercial re

Nginx Raises $20M Series B1 Round To Drive International Expansion

Nginx, the company behind the fast-growing open source NGINX web server, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B1 round led by NEA, with participation from e.ventures, Runa Capital,

NGINX Turns 10, Usage Up 400% In The Last 4 Years

The open source NGINX web server (and load balancer, HTTP cache and reverse proxy server) is turning 10 this month and its commercial counterpart, NGINX Plus is celebrating its first birthday at the

NGINX Now Powers 146 Million Websites, Launches Versions 1.6 and 1.7 Of Its Web Server

NGINX, the company behind the popular web server with the same name, today announced that it now powers more than 146 million websites. That's up from only 96 million a year ago -- a 52 percent year-o

Nginx Raises $10M Series B Round Led By NEA

<a target="_blank" href="http://nginx.com/">Nginx</a>, the company behind the increasingly popular web server by the same name, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B round led by N

Group Led By Google Wants More Speed On The Web, Releases Nginx PageSpeed Module In Beta

Google really cares about the web being faster. In 2010 it led a group of contributors in releasing a module for Apache web servers called PageSpeed. Today, the same group has released a version for N

Making The Web Faster: CloudFlare Adds Support For Google’s SPDY Protocol

<a target="_blank" href="http://cloudflare.com">CloudFlare</a>, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google's

Russian Nginx raises $3 million from international investors

Russian company Nginx raised $3 million from German BV Capital, Russian Runa Capital and MSD Capital, Michael Dell‘s venture fund, as reported by RBK Daily. Founded by Russian engineer Igor Syso

Russian Nginx Raises $3 Million From International Investors

Russian company <a title="Nginx" href="http://nginx.net">Nginx</a> has raised $3 million from German <a title="BV Capital" href="http://www.bvcapital.com/" target="_blank"> BV Capital</a>, Russian <a