RoR Provider Receives Benchmark Investment

On Friday, Engine Yard, the application and support provider to Ruby on Rails, announced it has closed a $3.5 million Series A investment from Benchmark Capital.

The funds will enable Engine Yard to increase its global operations, build up its customer service organization worldwide and augment the core technologies that drive Ruby on Rails applications.

Mitch Lasky and Peter Fenton will join the Engine Yard’s board of directors.

Lasky stated “As the Rails community matures and makes greater inroads into the enterprise, Engine Yard’s scalable, robust deployment solutions are increasingly necessary to achieve industry-leading application performance. With an unwavering commitment to customer service, Engine Yard has built a strong and loyal base of customers and attracted some of the best and brightest talent in the Ruby on Rails community.”

Supplying the infrastructure and continuous operations support required to host and manage business-critical Ruby on Rails applications, Engine Yard offers redundant hardware and software for elevated reliability and durable scalability through a clustered architecture, designed to optimize server performance, database efficiency and security.