The Market Implications of Sequoia Capital's Funding of Appirio

THINKstrategies
Jeff Kaplan compares Sequoia's investment in Appirio to previous Sequoia investments and examines implications for the broader industry.

VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds

BusinessWeek
Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm looks at the attention cloud computing is drawing from the VC community, using Sequoia Capital's invest in Appirio as an example. "The game-changing potential of those services has venture firms sitting up and taking notice," she says. "So far this year companies providing cloud services or building services on top of the cloud have raked in more than $70 million."

Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud

ZDNet, Phil Wainewright
Phil Wainewright analyzes Sequoia Capital's investment in Appirio: "Sequoia’s bet is that Appirio will prove to have been an early mover in bringing the cloud to the enterprise, in the process carving a substantial slice of the $300 billion currently spent each year on traditional on-premise computing solutions."

Appirio gets $5.6M from Sequoia

VentureBeat
Anthony Ha breaks the news of Sequoia Capital's investment in Appirio: "Appirio, an online software startup whose most popular offerings sync data between Salesforce.com and Google products, has raised a $5.6 million second round of funding led by Sequoia Capital."

Podcast - SaaS Integration Issues

SaaS Week
SaaS integration is a commonly cited concern that companies mention when wondering about whether to use SaaS, but companies are finding ways to work around any challenges. SaaS Week's Krissi Danielsson recently spoke with Chris Barbin, CEO of Appirio, about SaaS integration.
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