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Heroku

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Heroku is a leading provider of cloud computing, offering a Ruby platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability. The San Francisco, CA-based company is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Tens of thousands of developers worldwide have deployed over 100,000+ applications to Heroku. For more information, please visit http://heroku.com and http://blog.heroku.com or follow Heroku on Twitter at http://twitter.com/heroku.

Milestones

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  Heroku added Mattt Thompson as Mobile Lead. (1/9/12)
  Posted 1/13/12 at 9:53am
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  Heroku added Yukihiro Matsumoto as Chief Architect.
  Posted 7/12/11 at 6:13pm
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  Heroku added Adam Gross as Advisor.
  Posted 5/12/11 at 7:51pm
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  Heroku added Scott Raney as board of directors. (4/1/07)
  Posted 12/9/10 at 9:45am
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  Heroku added Mark Imbriaco as Director of Cloud Operations. (8/1/10)
  Posted 11/23/10 at 11:30pm
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  Heroku added Mike Pyle as VP, Sales & Business Development.
  Posted 11/12/10 at 4:17pm
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  Heroku added Mark McGranaghan as Developer.
  Posted 7/25/10 at 9:39am
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  Heroku added Byron Sebastian as CEO.
  Posted 10/15/09 at 6:54pm
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  Heroku added Chris Sacca as Advisor.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:49pm
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  Heroku added Orion Henry as Mad Scientist.
  Posted 2/8/08 at 12:06am
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  Heroku added James Lindenbaum as OCD Perfectionist/CEO.
  Posted 2/8/08 at 12:06am
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  Heroku added Adam Wiggins as Ruthless Pragmatist.
  Posted 2/8/08 at 12:06am
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  Heroku received $10M in Series B funding. (5/10/10)
  Posted 5/10/10 at 5:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Heroku received $3M in Series A funding. (5/8/08)
  Posted 5/8/08 at 10:00am via techcrunch.com
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  Heroku received $20k in Seed funding. (1/1/08)
  Posted 2/8/08 at 12:06am via techcrunch.com
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  Heroku was acquired by Salesforce for $250M. (12/8/10)
  Posted 12/8/10 at 3:24am via techcrunch.com

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Screenshots

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Above: Heroku Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 7/18/10

Products

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Heroku Platform

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Website	heroku.com
Blog	blog.heroku.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	January 15, 2009

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1. Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Former Microsoft Execs Lead $10 Million Round In Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Citation Needed [add]