Nerdio nabs $ 500 million to power virtual office computers on Azure
NerdiaA platform designed to simplify the way companies deploy and manage Microsoft Cloud Technologies, has raised $ 500 million in a series of series C.
The startup based in Chicago claims that its evaluation has now quadrupled since its B series two years ago, and is now firmly in unicorn territory – although the company would not reveal a specific evaluation.
“We do not disclose the specific evaluation, but it is north of $ 1 billion,” said Nerdio e-mail.
Nerdio came out of a company “it-as-a-service” called Adar Back in 2020, with Adar Fall under the property of investment and Nerdio forge a path As a dedicated cloud management service provider for customers who include Paypal, Sony and Comcast.
Nerdio targets companies seeking to optimize their deployments and cloud infrastructure costs. With Nerdio Manager for Enterprisethe company helps companies to manage Microsoft Azure Virtual Office and Windows applications on their workforce. It automates many tasks related to cloud infrastructure and virtual office management, such as user provisioning, deployment of applications, as well as the supply of cost optimization functionalities such as automatic scaling resources to meet demand.
Virtual offices, for uninitiated, are IT environments that run on remote servers instead of physical computers, allowing users to access all of their applications, files and configurations on any device via the Internet. Nerdio praises a more modern native approach to the cloud of traditional inherited players Citrixwhich started before the Cloud Computing revolution took off.
This is particularly relevant at a time when millions of people have adopted remote and hybrid work environments, as they can safely access all their work wherever they are.
“The management of cloud environments is complex and costly – it generally requires a lot of specialized technical expertise and a mixture of expensive and partitioned tools,” said Landes. “Nerdio provides a complete and complete platform that allows organizations to manage their Microsoft cloud environments without the need for additional skills, tools or workflows.”
Before now, Nerdio had raised a series of $ 8 million per turn in 2020, followed by a $ 117 million series B Years later. For its latest cash injection of $ 500 million, Nerdio inaugurated the American company in matters of equity General Atlantic alongside Lead Edge Capital and Stepstone who acquired a minority participation in the company.
Nerdio would not confirm the percentages of property through his gang of investors, but he said that the founders “retain an important participation in the company”.
Nerdio says it plans to use its investment to improve its product range on the main Microsoft services, including Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 and Microsoft 365. The company also claims that it plans to strengthen its workforce which is currently at 300 employees.
“We plan to considerably grow this number as we extend our global presence and create customer support and engineering teams,” said Landes.
