industry founded 2006 founder ezra zygmuntowicz lance walley tom mornini jayson vantuyl headquarters san francisco united states key people beau vrolyk alan cyron dave mcallister products engine yard website www.engineyard.com engine yard is a san francisco california based privately held 1 platform as a service company focused on ruby on rails php and node.js deployment and management . contents 1 history 2 funding 3 references 4 external links history edit engine yard founded in 2006 offers a cloud application management platform . 2 engine yard co founders include tom mornini lance walley and ezra zygmuntowicz . 3 john dillon joined engine yard as ceo in 2009 and previously held the position of ceo at salesforce.com from 1999 through 2001 . 4 in august 2011 engine yard acquired orchestra.io to add php expertise to the engine yard team and platform . 5 in september 2011 the company launched a partner program that includes over 40 cloud technology companies . these partners provide add on services such as application performance management email deliverability load testing and more within the engine yard platform . in november 2011 the company added the node.js server side framework into its paas . 6 in early 2012 engine yard reported that its revenue doubled year over year to 28 million in 2011 and the number of paying customers rose 50 percent to 2 000 in that time . 6 engine yard claims that with its 28 million in revenue for 2011 it is the leading open platform as a service . 7 in june 2013 engine yard formed a strategic alliance with microsoft 8 and went live on windows azure marketplace on july 31 2013 . developers can use this open source platform as a service running on microsoft cloud infrastructure to deploy web and mobile apps . in april 2015 engine yard announced the acquisition of opdemand and their container paas deis . 9 engine yard sponsors a number of open source projects including vertebra software . 10 funding edit in january 2008 engine yard received an investment of 3.5 million from benchmark capital . some industry commentators interpreted this as an investment in ruby on rails . 11 in july 2008 engine yard secured an additional 15 million from a combination of benchmark capital new enterprise associates and amazon . 12 in october 2009 engine yard received an additional 19 million in funding from a combination of benchmark capital new enterprise associates amazon bay partners presidio ventures and dag ventures for a total of 37.5 million in funding . in november 2012 oracle corporation announced that it made a strategic minority investment in engine yard . financial details of the investment were not disclosed . engine yard continues to operate as an independent company . references edit taylor colleen june 23 2011 tech giants are hungry for m & a really hungry gigaom retrieved july 29 2012 gardner dana july 14 2008 amazon helps boost engine yard s cloud computing efforts with capital infusion zdnet.com retrieved july 29 2012 park anthony september 14 2010 engine yard interview with tom mornini cto and co founder cloudtweaks.com retrieved july 29 2012 hesseldahl arik february 7 2011 engine yard ceo john dillon talks about competing against his old company salesforce.com allthingsd retrieved july 29 2012 engine yard conducts orchestra acquisition adds php paas crn august 23 2011 retrieved april 6 2012 a b darrow barb february 9 2012 veteran paas player engine yard claims big momentum gigaom retrieved july 29 2012 taft darryl k. february 10 2012 engine yard claims top paas position with 28m in revenue eweek retrieved july 29 2012 engine yard azure support announcement july 31 2013 engine yard joins forces with opdemand april 14 2015 paul krill . engine yard powers soa for the cloud . 2009 . schonfeld erick january 11 2008 benchmark bets on ruby on rails with 3.5 million investment in engine yard techcrunch retrieved july 29 2012 lerner reuven july 14 2008 engine yard secures 15 million in funding 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