3 million euros funding
A bit of business info. Anyware Technologies, the company of which I am the CTO and which I cofounded 4 1/2 years ago recently received 3 million euros funding from Spef Venture, a french VC.
This funding is targeted at developing a wide range of applications and products to connect enterprise systems with industrial automation devices and small embedded devices, all using the same underlying technologies, namely Java+XML+HTTP, mainly using Apache Cocoon.
The interesting point in the VC press release (in french) is that Cocoon and opensource software are explicitely mentioned as a being strenghs of the company, that allowed us to develop higher-level products and value.
So although we will develop proprietary products and solutions, our involvment in opensource communities will continue to grow. This knowledge of the OSS world is a strong selling point and large customers come to us because of it.
The company is growing (we're now 35) to build lots of nice things. Stay tuned!
This funding is targeted at developing a wide range of applications and products to connect enterprise systems with industrial automation devices and small embedded devices, all using the same underlying technologies, namely Java+XML+HTTP, mainly using Apache Cocoon.
The interesting point in the VC press release (in french) is that Cocoon and opensource software are explicitely mentioned as a being strenghs of the company, that allowed us to develop higher-level products and value.
So although we will develop proprietary products and solutions, our involvment in opensource communities will continue to grow. This knowledge of the OSS world is a strong selling point and large customers come to us because of it.
The company is growing (we're now 35) to build lots of nice things. Stay tuned!