Grey Mountain Partners has made an additional investment in its portfolio company Ajubeo, a provider of virtual datacenters and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service.
The Ajubeo service offering includes virtual datacenters, virtual desktops, cloud-based disaster recovery, cloud-based data backup and restore, and cloud-based systems and application monitoring. Cloud hub locations include data centers in Denver, New York, and London, accessible via secure, private network connections from anywhere in the world. Ajubeo is headquartered in Boulder, CO (www.ajubeo.com).
The new capital will be used to support strong demand, 600% quarterly revenue growth over the past 12 months, for Ajubeo’s enterprise-class Virtual Datacenters, Virtual Desktops, Backup and Restore-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service. Specifically, the new capital will fund continued expansion in the New York Metro Area, new product development, staffing, and sales and marketing initiatives.
“The cloud infrastructure market continues to expand at a rapid pace,” said Chuck Price, president and CEO of Ajubeo. “The question is no longer whether infrastructure-as-a-service is a viable alternative to traditional methods. Instead, customers are architecting their IT-based products and services around a diversified cloud strategy. This shift has led to strong demand for high-performance, production-ready cloud services from providers such as Ajubeo.”
Grey Mountain Partners invests up to $75 million in control acquisitions of companies with enterprise values between $30 million and $150 million. Sectors of interest include aerospace & defense, building products & materials, business process outsourcing, diversified manufacturing, energy & power, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare services & technology, industrial services, packaging, professional services, specialty chemicals, technology, transportation & logistics, wholesale and distribution. Grey Mountain was founded in 2003 by Managing Partners Rob Wright and Jeff Kuo and is based in Boulder with an additional office in Minneapolis (www.greymountain.com).
“We are excited to support Ajubeo’s leadership team, Chuck Price and Colorado CIO of the Year Tom Whitcomb, as they expand and enhance their industry-leading cloud infrastructure offering,” said Marcello La Rocca, affiliate manager at Grey Mountain Partners. “Ajubeo continues to deliver on a strong business plan, providing performance-sensitive customers with a 100% uptime cloud solution that has been measured at twice the performance of current market share leaders such as Amazon Web Services.”
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