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Nebula, Inc. was a hardware and software company with offices in Mountain View, California, and Seattle, Washington, USA. Nebula developed Nebula One, a cloud computing hardware appliance that turned racks of standard servers into a private cloud. The Nebula One private cloud system was built on the OpenStack open source cloud framework, as well as many other open source software projects.
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud Computing |
| Founded | Menlo Park, California, United States (March 25, 2011) |
| Founder | Chris C. Kemp, Devin Carlen, Steve O'Hara |
| Defunct | (April 1, 2015) |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Website | Nebula.com |
Nebula was founded as Fourth Paradigm Development in March 2011 by former NASA Ames Research Center chief technology officer Chris C. Kemp, long-time colleague Devin Carlen, entrepreneur Steve O'Hara, with software engineer Tres Henry, formerly at Amazon Web Services and author of the AWS Console, named as the head of User Experience.[1]
In May 2011, Nebula closed a round of series A investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners, with participation from Google's first three investors—Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram, and David Cheriton, as well as other investors.[2]
In the summer of 2012, eight members of the original Anso Labs (acquired by Rackspace) and NASA team that originally wrote components of the OpenStack project joined Nebula.[3]
In the fall of 2012, Nebula closed a $25 million series B investment led by Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital, and Google executive Eric Schmidt’s venture fund Innovation Endeavors became an investor.[4]
In March 2013, Nebula was named one of CIO.com 10 Hot Cloud Companies to Watch.[5] Nebula One, was made generally available on April 2, 2013.[6]
On April 1, 2015 the company announced on its website and confirmed on Twitter that it was ceasing operations.[7][8]
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