US-based cloud and data centre management software producer Blue Medora closed an $8.6m series B round yesterday featuring cloud and virtualisation technology provider VMware.
Venture capital firm Lewis & Clark Ventures led the round, which also featured eLab Ventures, Start Garden and Grand Angels, and which boosted Blue Medora’s overall funding to $14.5m.
Blue Medora has developed a database and cloud monitoring platform that combines data from virtualised and cloud-based databases, applications and services with compute, storage and network infrastructure.
VMware had previously taken part in Blue Medora’s $4.6m series A round in August 2015, investing alongside eLab, Start Garden and Grand Angels, the latter two of which had backed the company’s $1.25m seed round in 2013.
Ajay Singh, general manager of VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit, said: “Our strategic investment and collaboration with Blue Medora will help fast track the migration to software-defined data centres, enabling a single view of the IT stack across private, hybrid and public clouds, physical environments, applications and databases.”