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DigitalOcean, Inc. is an American internet services provider based in New York City. The company leases capacity from existing data centers, including sites in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Singapore and Frankfurt. DigitalOcean has received $123.21 million in funding across four venture rounds from Techstars, Crunch Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Access Industries and IA Ventures. It has also raised $50 million in debt from Fortress Investment Group.〔https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean〕 ==History== DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 by Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky and Jeff Carr.〔https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-carr〕 In 2012, DigitalOcean was accepted into the Techstars startup accelerator program. Shortly after finishing Techstars, it obtained its first round of seed funding from IA Ventures. In December 2013, Netcraft released a report detailing DigitalOcean’s growth as the world’s fastest growing cloud hosting service, surpassing Amazon Web Services in number of web-facing computers. In 2013, it opened its first European and Asian data centers, located in Amsterdam and Singapore, respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/platform-as-a-service/digitalocean-cloud-expands-in-europe-asia/d/d-id/1112850 )〕 In March 2014, DigitalOcean raised $37.2 million in a series A round funding, led by venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. In July 2014, DigitalOcean opened a new data center, located just outside London at an Equinix data centre. In October 2014, DigitalOcean surpassed Rackspace as the fourth largest hosting provider in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://trends.netcraft.com/www.digitalocean.com )〕 In Early 2015 James Cariello was appointed as its first chief technology officer, and Brian Cohen as chief financial officer.〔 In April 2015, DigitalOcean was ranked as the company hosting the third largest number of websites worldwide, after Amazon Web Services and French company OVH. In July 2015, DigitalOcean raised $83 million in a series B round funding, led by Access Industries with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, to build new data centers and to increase the product engineering team size. In September 2015, DigitalOcean opened its first Canadian data center, located in Toronto. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DigitalOcean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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