Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of diversified internet company Google, led a $12m funding round for US-based enterprise software producer CoreOS on Monday.
The round also featured venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fuel Capital and Accel Partners, the three investors in CoreOS’s $8m series A round in June 2014.
The company announced the funding at the same time as it launched Tectonic, an enterprise software stack enabling businesses to run containers for Linux.
Dave Munichiello, partner at Google Ventures, said: “We see a broader industry trend where enterprise computing is shifting to mirror the infrastructure of large-scale software companies.
“With a focus on security, reliability, and ease of deployment CoreOS delivers a comprehensive platform for global enterprises to deliver services at scale. We are excited to be working with the team.”
CoreOS, a graduate of the Y Combinator accelerator, raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital in 2013, but the company stated this week that it has now raised $20m since was founded.