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Metacloud is a technology company.
Metacloud provides enterprise-grade, OpenStack-based private cloud platforms. It offers a solution for organizations to design, deploy, and manage on-premises private clouds. This enables businesses to maintain control over virtual infrastructure while leveraging cloud scalability and flexibility, delivered as a fully managed service.
Founded in 2011, Metacloud was co-founded by Steve Curry, who also served as President. Curry brought significant experience as a founding member of the Yahoo! Storage operations team. The company's inception was driven by the insight that enterprises needed robust private cloud solutions offering public cloud agility with dedicated infrastructure control.
Metacloud primarily serves large enterprises seeking private cloud strategies without self-management complexity. Its product caters to organizations prioritizing data sovereignty and customized infrastructure. The company's vision centers on delivering a seamless, managed OpenStack experience, empowering businesses to harness private cloud computing and accelerate digital transformation.
Metacloud has raised $25.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Metacloud has raised $25.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Metacloud has raised $25.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Metacloud's investors include AME Cloud Ventures, Canaan Partners, Glencrest Group, Hardware Club, PruVen Capital, Shasta Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, True Ventures, Vertical Venture Partners, Webb Investment Network.
Metacloud is a technology company founded in 2010 in Pasadena, California, specializing in OpenStack-based private cloud solutions for enterprises. It builds and operates production-ready private clouds on customer premises, deploying OpenStack (via its Carbon|OS distribution) with KVM hypervisors and Ceph-based unified storage from commodity hardware.[1][3] Serving Fortune 500 companies across industries like media and software (e.g., Tableau Software as an early adopter), Metacloud solves the challenge of implementing scalable, high-availability private clouds without in-house expertise, offering remote management for reliability and cost efficiency.[1][3] Backed by investors including Cisco Systems, AME Cloud Ventures, Canaan, Pelion Venture Partners, and Silicon Valley Bank, it demonstrated early growth with 10 clients and typical 40-CPU-socket installations by around 2014.[1][3]
Metacloud was founded in 2010 (with some sources noting 2011) by senior architects from major web commerce and technology firms, including CEO and co-founder Sean Lynch, formerly SVP of technical operations at Ticketmaster.[1][3] The idea emerged from expertise in large-scale infrastructure, aiming to simplify OpenStack adoption for enterprises wary of building private clouds themselves. Early traction came from deploying production clouds for Fortune 500 clients, with pivotal adoptions by Tableau Software and unnamed streaming media companies, plus strategic investment from Cisco and others that fueled expansion.[1][3]
Metacloud rode the early 2010s surge in OpenStack adoption, an open-source alternative to proprietary clouds like VMware, enabling enterprises to avoid vendor lock-in while achieving public-cloud-like scalability on private hardware.[3] Timing was ideal amid rising demand for hybrid/private clouds post-AWS dominance, as companies sought control over data sovereignty, compliance, and costs. Market forces like OpenStack's ecosystem growth (backed by players like Rackspace) favored Metacloud, influencing the ecosystem by proving managed OpenStack viability for Fortune 500s and accelerating enterprise private cloud shifts.[1][3] It prefigured broader "metacloud" trends—abstracted multi-cloud management layers for simplicity amid cloud sprawl, as noted in later analyses.[5]
Metacloud's model positioned it as a pioneer in managed OpenStack, but search data trails off post-2014, suggesting potential acquisition, pivot, or consolidation in a market now dominated by hyperscalers and mature OpenStack providers like Canonical or SUSE. Looking ahead, surviving entities or successors could thrive on hybrid/multi-cloud resurgence, AI-driven infrastructure demands, and metacloud orchestration for sprawling environments—trends amplifying the need for abstracted, resilient private clouds.[5] Its influence may evolve through alumni expertise or tech integrations, underscoring how early innovators like Metacloud shaped enterprise cloud autonomy amid today's complexity.
Metacloud has raised $25.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $15.0M Series B in May 2014.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2014 | $15.0M Series B | AME Cloud Ventures, Canaan Partners, Glencrest Group, Hardware Club, PruVen Capital, Shasta Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, True Ventures, Vertical Venture Partners, Webb Investment Network, Wing Venture Capital, Jay Adelson, Canaan Partners, Blake Modersitzki, Silicon Valley Bank, UMC Capital | |
| Jun 1, 2013 | $10.0M Series A | Maha Ibrahim | AME Cloud Ventures, Canaan Partners, CRV, Electric Capital, Glencrest Group, GSV Acceleration, Hardware Club, Hyde Park Venture Partners, IrishAngels, Locus Ventures, Motivate Ventures, PruVen Capital, Shasta Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, True Ventures, Vertical Venture Partners, Webb Investment Network, Wing Venture Capital, Jay Adelson |