Engine Yard is a San Francisco, California based company focused on advancing the state of the art in Ruby on Rails. Since December 2006, it has provided a Cloud-style environment for Ruby on Rails applications. Engine Yard Cloud (launched in February 2009) provides Ruby on Rails in a Platform as a Service environment.[1]
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One of Engine Yard's four founders was the creator of the Merb project[2], and the company continued supporting the project by hiring Yehuda Katz to work on the project full time[3]. In December of 2008, the Merb and Ruby on Rails projects merged [4][5] and Katz was added to the Rails Core Team[6].
Engine Yard also sponsors a number of other open-source projects, including Rubinius (an alternate implementation of the Ruby runtime)[7] and JRuby[8].
In January 2008, Engine Yard received an investment of $3.5 million from Benchmark Capital. Some industry monitors interpreted this as an investment in Ruby on Rails.[9]
In July of the same year, Engine Yard secured an additional $15 million from a combination of Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.
In October of 2009 Engine Yard announced an additional $19 million in funding from a combination of Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Amazon, Bay Partners, Presidio Ventures and DAG Ventures[10], for a total of $37.5 million in funding.
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