Orbitera
Orbitera is an American cloud services provider. A subsidiary of Google, the company develops and sells an e-commerce platform that automates billing and ordering processes for cloud marketplaces.[2]
Subsidiary | |
Industry | SaaS, Cloud computing |
Founder | Brian Singer |
Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
Key people | Marcin Kurc (CEO) |
Parent | Google[1] |
Website | www |
History
Orbitera was founded in 2012, by Brian Singer after he found challenges associated with selling software at tech companies where he had previously worked.[3] The company initially raised $2 million in seed funding from Resolute Ventures and Double M Partners. By 2016, the company's platform was used by Adobe Systems, Red Hat and Avnet among others.[4][5] That same year, the company was acquired by Google. As a result of the deal, the company became part of Google Cloud Platform.[6] In 2018, Orbitera partnered with the mobile device management provider MobileIron to develop a store for cloud-based software.[7]
Products
Since its inception, Orbitera's e-commerce platform supports multi-cloud commerce.[8][9] The platform handles billing processes when buying and selling cloud-based services, automates the building of online marketplaces and bundled cloud services, and enables product trials through test drives.[10] The company's 2018 partnership with MobileIron will enable clients to sell groups of services by customer segment, allow for customized branding, offer streamlined billing, and support data, voice, and third-party cloud services.[11]
References
- "Company Overview of Orbitera Inc". Bloomberg.
- Mark Bergen (August 8, 2016). "Google Keeps Buying Cloud Companies to Take on Amazon's AWS". Recode.
- Meghan Ottolini (March 31, 2016). "Orbitera Focused On Enabling 'The Cross-Cloud Experience'". CRN.
- Ingrid Lunden (August 8, 2016). "Google Buys Orbitera, a Platform For Cloud Marketplaces, For $100M+". TechCrunch.
- Sushri Sahu (August 9, 2016). "Google Eyes 'Multi-Cloud' Approach With Orbitera Acquisition". Techseen.
- Matt Weinberger (August 8, 2016). "Google Just Bought a Startup For Over $100 Million to Catch Up With Microsoft in the Cloud Wars". Business Insider.
- https://www.readitquik.com/news/paas/google-follows-in-aws-footsteps-with-new-digital-store/
- "Google's Acquisition of Orbitera: Concerning or Not?". Parqantix.
- "Why Google Just Bought This Hot E-Commerce Startup". Fortune.
- "The 20 Coolest Cloud Platform and Development Vendors of the 2016 Cloud 100". CRN.
- "Google is Launching a New Digital Store to Sell Cloud-Based Software". TechCrunch.