{"id":7393,"date":"2013-05-14T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2658508"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:20:00","slug":"cloudant-gets-first-real-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloudant-gets-first-real-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudant Gets First Real Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston-based Cloudant and its NoSQL distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), which have gone to the VC trough four times since the company was started in 2008, have gotten what appears to be their first real money to grow on: a $12 million B round led by Devonshire Investors, the private equity arm of Fidelity Investments, which was joined by Rackspace, Samsung Ventures and Toba Capital, former Quest Software CEO Vinny Smith\u2019s new venture fund.<br \/>\nThe start-up, which says it\u2019s targeting profitability in the first half of next year, recently got a secret amount of money from the CIA\u2019s venture arm In-Q-Tel and Samsung and brought in a reported $4 million before that. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2658508\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston-based Cloudant and its NoSQL distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), which have gone to the VC trough four times since the company was started in 2008, have gotten what appears to be their first real money to grow on: a $12 million B round le&#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-7393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393","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=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}