$20M More for Virtual Iron

Lowell, MA’s Virtual Iron Software, the self-proclaimed “alternative to the juggernaut called VMware” has scored $20 million in equity capital from the likes of Highland Capital Partners, Matrix Partners, Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, and SAP Ventures. Virtual Iron closed a $13 million series D round in November; the new financing brings the firm’s total venture financing to $65 million.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.