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BirthplaceEspoo, Finland
Birthdate11/6/62

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Helsinki University of Technology, Masters
Engineering

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Marten Mickos

Marten Mickos is the CEO of Eucalyptus (http://eucalyptus.com), a cloud computing software company backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/former-mysql-chief-lands-at-eucalyptus/)

Mickos is the former CEO of MySQL, before Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL in January 2008 for $1 billion.

He joined Benchmark Capital as an Entrepreneur-in Residence in September of 2009.

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Flowdock 10/11Seed$650k5
ERPLY 3/10Venture Round$2M8
Factual 2/10Seed$1M14
Cloudera 3/09Series A$5M9

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  1. TechCrunch: CrunchFund, Angels Back Flowdock, A Group Chat Application For Teams (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Erply: The Next Skype of Business Software? (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Cloudera Raises $5 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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