Founded in 2015 by brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg, A Cloud Guru began life as a Melbourne-based startup offering a single cloud certification course.
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A Cloud Guru - an online training start-up founded by two brothers in Melbourne - has been acquired by US company Pluralsight in one of the largest deals ever for an Australian tech company.
The company, founded by Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg in 2015, has been one of the most closely watched Australian start-ups in recent years, after growing at a tremendous rate, with a mainly US and overseas customer base for its online cloud computing training programs.
Brothers Ryan and Sam Kroonenburg have grown and sold a global online learning business from Australia.
Terms of the deal were not revealed by Pluralsight or A Cloud Guru, but
Chargebee valued at $1.4 billion in new $125 million fundraise
A startup that enables businesses to set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance has become the newest firm to earn the much coveted unicorn status.
Chennai and San Francisco-headquartered Chargebee said on Tuesday it has raised $125 million in its Series G financing round led by Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners.
The new financing round valued the 10-year-old startup at $1.4 billion, a 3x increase since the Series F round six months ago. Some other existing investors also participated in the new round, said Chargebee, which has raised $230 million to date.
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