– USA, WA – Pulumi, the Cloud engineering pioneer, today announced that it has secured $37.5M in a Series B funding round led by NEA with participation from Madrona Venture Group and Tola Capital, bringing the total raised to date to $57.5M.
Concurrent with the financing, NEA partner Aaron Jacobson will join S. Somasegar, managing director of Madrona Venture Group, and Sheila Gulati, managing director of Tola Capital, on Pulumi’s board of directors.
The new funding will be used to accelerate research and development along with expanding sales and marketing as the company continues to develop and lead the cloud engineering market with its flagship infrastructure as code platform.
“Pulumi serves a critical need for businesses experiencing rapid transformation in this modern cloud era, accelerating cloud engineering by developers and infrastructure teams and enabling them to work together more closely,” said Aaron Jacobson. “We are extremely pleased to have led this round and look forward to partnering closely with Pulumi to further accelerate the growth of the company and the benefits that it brings to cloud engineers worldwide.”
“By pairing a programming interface with a resource model, Pulumi has essentially turned the cloud into an operating system,” said Scott Sandell, managing general partner of NEA. “It’s one of the most significant and ambitious approaches to redefining how the cloud is used that we’ve seen in years, much like operating system revolutions of the past.”
Pulumi gives cloud engineering teams the ability to leverage the cloud in all aspects of their software — including infrastructure provisioning, architecture, policy, and testing. Pulumi supports all public, private and hybrid clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes, in addition to 50+ other infrastructure providers, using familiar languages and tools, including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go and .NET/C#. Today’s announcement comes after several significant recent product releases, including the introduction of Pulumi 2.0 and the unveiling of significant new capabilities for Kubernetes.
Pulumi also announced several new executive appointments, deepening its leadership bench to support its rapid growth.
Pulumi today also announced the expansion of its executive team, having appointed longtime software industry veterans Jay Wampold as CMO, Lindsay Marolich as senior director of demand generation, Kevin Kotecki as VP of sales, and Lee-Ming Zen as VP of engineering.
These new appointments will significantly accelerate hiring and facilitate scaling of Pulumi’s ongoing R&D and go-to-market efforts. Wampold brings more than 24 years of marketing and communications experience at top technology companies including AWS, Qumulo, and Chef to Pulumi. Marolich brings over a decade of marketing experience to the company, having held leadership roles at companies including Cloudability, Apptio, and CommerceIQ. Kotecki brings more than 10 years of experience in technology sales to the company, having previously held senior positions at Isilon, Tableau, and Igneous Systems. Zen brings 15 years of engineering experience to Pulumi, having held senior positions at AWS, Microsoft, and Bluefin Labs.
“Three years ago, we set out on a bold mission to empower developers and infrastructure teams to make the most out of the modern cloud,” said Founder and CEO, Joe Duffy. “The market transformation and success we’ve seen in that time has blown us away and I’m incredibly proud of the team and product we’ve built. Our community has grown into an amazing, welcoming place that embodies the company culture and, as our growing customer base sees their own successes, Pulumi’s success follows. I’d like to thank Soma and Madrona, and Sheila and Tola, and now Aaron, Scott, Hilarie, and the rest of the NEA team, for their belief in our vision and major contributions to our momentum. I can’t wait to see what the Pulumi team, our customers, and our community build in the years to come!”
About Pulumi
Pulumi’s modern infrastructure as code platform empowers cloud engineering teams to work better together to ship faster with confidence, using open source and the world’s most popular programming languages. Pulumi’s SaaS product enables a consistent workflow for delivering and securing applications and infrastructure on any cloud—public, private, or hybrid—including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more than 50 other cloud infrastructure providers. Organizations of all sizes, from startups to the Global 2000, have chosen Pulumi for their cloud transformation and modernization needs. Pulumi was founded in 2017 by Microsoft, Amazon, and Google software veterans.
For more information: https://www.pulumi.com/
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