Cloud Cruiser

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Cloud Cruiser
Type Subsidiary
Industry service management, cost management software, cloud financial management
FoundedJanuary 2010
FoundersDavid Zabrowski, Gregory Howard
Headquarters
Roseville, California
San Jose, California
,
United States
Area served
 Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa
ProductsCloud Cruiser Enterprise 4, Cloud Cruiser Express
Parent Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Website www.hpe.com/us/en/services/cloud-cost-management.html

Cloud Cruiser is a cloud-based financial management company based in Silicon Valley. [1] Founded in January 2015 by David Zabrowski and Gregory Howard, [2] Cloud Cruiser has offices in Roseville and San Jose, California, and the Netherlands. [3] [4]

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History

Cloud Cruiser was founded in January 2010 by Zabrowski and Howard. [2] [5] Zabrowski was a general manager at Hewlett-Packard. He also became CEO of Neterion in 2002 and was Entrepreneur in Residence at Wavepoint Ventures. [2] [4] [5] [6] Howard was a software developer and later the development director for CIMS Lab. [4] [5] He also worked for IBM Corporation and the Computer Task Group. [4]

Cloud Cruiser partnered companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, VMware, Amazon Marketplace and Cisco. [5] In July 2010, Wavepoint Ventures led Cloud Cruiser's first round of funding. [7] It included investments from Roger Akers of Akers Capital and other San Francisco Bay Area angel investors. [4] In March 2011, Cloud Cruiser came out of stealth mode and released its eponymous software later that year. [8]

In June 2012, the company raised an additional $6 million in series B funding, led by ONSET Ventures. [5] [9] In 2013, Cloud Cruiser became available for Windows Server 2012 R2 through Microsoft Azure. [10]

In February 2014, the company's software was made available to OpenStack users through Rackspace. [11] Cloud Cruiser started offering OpenStack integration in 2011. [12] In October 2014, Cloud Cruiser 4 was released. [13]

In 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquired the company. [14]

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