PHP Fog Raises $1.8M

Portland, OR-based PHP Fog said today it has raised $1.8 million from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital, Founder’s Co-op, and other prominent angel investors. The company, founded by developer Lucas Carlson, was established a year ago to make it easier to deploy and scale up applications of PHP, the popular programming language, via cloud computing infrastructure.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.