{"id":6342,"date":"2013-03-07T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2569542"},"modified":"2013-03-07T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:33:00","slug":"pertino-raises-20-million-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/pertino-raises-20-million-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pertino Raises $20 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pertino, the start-up that figures its software-defined WANs can reinvent cloud-era networking for the masses, has raised $20 million in B series funding led by new investor Jafco Ventures with existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners kicking in.<br \/>\nThe new round brings Pertino\u2019s total VC take to $28.85 million and may take it through to break-even.<br \/>\nThe company means to use the new money to execute against its SDN cloud platform vision and build out its go-to-market strategy.<br \/>\nPertino\u2019s widgetry has been in limited availability since its launch last month. Jafco thinks Pertino, which is focused on SMBs, is delivering a disruptive technology in a practical and consumable way to an underserved global market. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2569542\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pertino, the start-up that figures its software-defined WANs can reinvent cloud-era networking for the masses, has raised $20 million in B series funding led by new investor Jafco Ventures with existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Lightspeed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}