Boulder’s JumpCloud Raises $3.1M to Make DevOps Server Tools

JumpCloud, a Boulder, CO-based startup that is developing server management tools for software development and IT teams, has closed a $3.1 million Series A round, according to paperwork the company has filed with the SEC.

JumpCloud, which was formerly known as SafeInstance, launched publicly in September and is developing cloud-based software that allows users to automatically manage servers and control user access, install patches, monitor security, and handle compliance tasks.

CEO Rajat Bhargava said the money will be used primarily to expand the development and sales teams.

“We’re going to add to our headcount, deepen the product, add infrastructure, and just keep growing,” Bhargava said.

The investors in the round were the Foundry Group and David Cohen’s Bullet Time Ventures, he said. Both are based in Boulder.

Bhargava said in prior interviews that JumpCloud plans to grow fast this year to take advantage of a market opening and the rising “DevOps” trend, in which companies integrate software development with infrastructure operations so that software is delivered and deployed faster. See this Xconomy story for more about JumpCloud’s plans and DevOps.

The company already had raised a $1.2 million round in 2012, according to the SEC.

 

Author: Michael Davidson

Michael Davidson is an award-winning journalist whose career as a business reporter has taken him from the garages of aspiring inventors to assembly centers for billion-dollar satellites. Most recently, Michael covered startups, venture capital, IT, cleantech, aerospace, and telecoms for Xconomy and, before that, for the Boulder County Business Report. Before switching to business journalism, Michael covered politics and the Colorado Legislature for the Colorado Springs Gazette and the government, police and crime beats for the Broomfield Enterprise, a paper in suburban Denver. He also worked for the Boulder Daily Camera, and his stories have appeared in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. Career highlights include an award from the Colorado Press Association, doing barrel rolls in a vintage fighter jet and learning far more about public records than is healthy. Michael started his career as a copy editor for the Colorado Springs Gazette's sports desk. Michael has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan.