Investment to support accelerated customer growth based on significant wins over competitors

BOULDER, Colo. – November 30, 2016 – VictorOps, the real-time incident management company, today announced the first close of $12.2 million of its Series B investment round led by new investor Shea Ventures along with existing investors Foundry Group and Costanoa Venture Capital participating.

As DevOps adoption grows across the enterprise, many Fortune 100 companies are looking to  build a culture of uptime company wide. As such, VictorOps has seen accelerated customer growth and has experienced significant wins against more traditional industry competitors. Specifically in the last year alone, the number of customers have increased by 64 percent with a growth in monthly revenue of 175 percent.

“Even five years ago, businesses were simply looking for basic alerting platforms that would notify IT workers of infrastructure problems,” said Todd Vernon, CEO and Co-founder, VictorOps. “However, today progressive enterprises have realized that software development velocity is directly tied to the ability to push code into production faster and remediate problems in real-time. Maintaining uptime has now become a team sport, meaning that regardless of who’s in charge when problems arise (IT Operations, Developers or NOC managers) VictorOps offers a way to automate the entire alerting and remediation process.”

The Series B funding will help to support the company’s growth and continued traction with enterprise level customers. Many new customers have been unsatisfied with IT alerting tools and are realizing there is a better, more comprehensive solution available. VictorOps provides teams with a virtual environment where they can prepare for, react to and recover from, and document, each incident regardless of location or device.

“In the modern enterprise, software plays a central role,” said Nancy Gohring, senior analyst, application and infrastructure performance, for 451 Research. “As such, uptime is critical for businesses that want to remain competitive, driving demand for tools that can help with incident management and with reducing the time it takes to repair problems.”

“VictorOps has shown an amazing track record of attracting customers from a wide variety of industries, and supporting them as they adopt tooling to support their Agile and DevOps practices. We were impressed by the depth of market knowledge the team at VictorOps possessed and the win rates against more conventional industry competitors.  This is a very fast moving market and vision will be a key asset to the eventual winner in the space.”  said Jason Schoettler, Managing Director, Shea Ventures. “VictorOps shows a solid track record of finding the innovators in companies such as Snap Inc. (Snapchat), Qualtrics, and NCR.”

For more information visit www.victorops.com.

About VictorOps

VictorOps is the real-time incident management platform focusing on incident lifecycle management and collaboration for IT and DevOps teams. The solution combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day. Privately held, VictorOps is backed by Costanoa Venture Capital, Shea Ventures and Foundry Group. For more information, visit www.victorops.com and follow the company on Twitter @VictorOps.

About Shea Ventures
Since 1968, Shea Ventures has actively invested over $1 billion in the venture capital ecosystem. Notable companies directly backed by Shea Ventures include AES, Affymax, Altera, Brocade, Dollar Shave Club, Fabrinet, Ring, Salesforce.com, Sphero, and SolarCity. As a patient and growth-oriented investor, we partner with entrepreneurs who are leaders in their markets to build enduring companies.

— Jules Louis

Building on its global momentum, Contino today announces a new leadership structure to accelerate its growth strategy, which will come into effect by the end of November

London and New York – November 28, 2016. Following his appointment earlier this quarter, Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey J. Collins, today announced the refinement of  Contino’s leadership structure, including the creation of several new roles, as the company’s global growth continues to accelerate. The new leadership structure reflects the strategic importance of the company’s interactions with its customers and its transformation ambition, ensuring it is best positioned to drive momentum globally for 2017 and beyond.

Jeff commented: “Today’s organisational announcement reflects our continued focus on our clients, to ensure that Contino not only meets but exceeds their expectations. Our company performance over the past two years has positioned us for the significant international opportunities ahead and the acceleration of our global growth strategy.”

He continued: “The breadth of global experience, leadership qualities and values of this team gives me a high degree of confidence in our ability to lead us through the next phase of our strategic journey, thanks to an even stronger focus on our customers and our technology partners. The new structure has been shaped, both in terms of the executives and the allocation of responsibilities, with a view to ensuring that we will work and act collectively as one team to define and execute the company’s priorities worldwide.”

The new leadership structure will streamline business operations and ensure a client-centric service roadmap by clarifying key areas of responsibility:

President, EMEA ‒ Matt Farmer

Co-founder Matt Farmer will move on from his previous role as General Manager to President, EMEA. As the new President for EMEA, Matt will have full P&L responsibility of the region and will continue to lead Contino’s EMEA management team in developing and executing strategies to drive aggressive revenue and market-share growth. This more explicit focus will enable Contino to take maximum advantage of the huge opportunities available in the region. Matt will continue to serve as Executive Board Member.

CTO, EMEA ‒ Benjamin Wootton

Co-founder Benjamin Wootton will move on from his previous role as Account Principal to CTO, EMEA. In this capacity, Benjamin will be responsible for steering the future course of Contino’s service offering and technology roadmap, ensuring the continuous development of innovative new solutions that respond to the requirements of Contino’s global customers, who need data, systems and infrastructure to be delivered ever more quickly and at ever greater scale. Benjamin will also lead Contino’s team of global technologists as well as the worldwide strategic technology partnerships. Benjamin will continue to serve as Executive Board Member.

CFO ‒ Vicente Velez

Vicente has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. He will be responsible for managing all finance functions globally, with a particular focus on corporate strategy. His team will pursue ambitious, sustainable growth at Contino through both organic and inorganic opportunities.

Each of these roles will report in to Jeff, an enterprise industry veteran who was recently appointed CEO to guide Contino’s global expansion. The company, which specialises in enterprise DevOps and cloud transformation, has seen its global team triple and revenues grow by over 200% year-on-year since its founding in 2014.

Contino recently announced that they had gained Amazon Web Services APN Advanced Consulting Partner status which, alongside their Docker Premier Training and Consulting Partner status, reflects their drive to work with world-class technologies and partners. The Contino team will be in attendance at AWS re:Invent, taking place 28 November – 02 December in Las Vegas.

About Contino

Contino are a global enterprise DevOps and cloud transformation consultancy. The company’s rapid prototyping and DevOps acceleration services help organisations speed time to market for high quality new and re-tooled applications. From strategy and operations to culture and technology, Contino helps business and technology leaders identify and address opportunities for growth and profitability. Contino provides training, development, deployment and optimisation services for the full stack of DevOps and Agile technologies including application lifecycle management (ALM), modern development and Continuous Delivery tools, micro-services architecture, containerisation, security, analytics, testing and cloud infrastructure platforms. Contino are an Amazon Web Services (AWS) APN Advanced Consulting Partner and a Docker Premier Consulting and Training Partner. Learn more at http://contino.io/

— Jules Louis

APPSPHERE — LAS VEGAS — Nov. 15, 2016 —AppDynamics, a leading application intelligence company, announced today advanced support for monitoring digital businesses in real-time in hybrid cloud environments built using Microsoft Azure, which is available viaAppDynamics Exchange.The world’s largest enterprises can accelerate their digital transformations by enhancing application and business monitoring with AppDynamics on Azure platforms.

As enterprises in every industrydigitally transform their businesses to meet modern consumers’ demands, AppDynamics is bolstering its role as a digital accelerator in that process with the expanded Azure support. AppDynamics gives enterprises the confidence to deploy digital solutions for business-critical functions knowing that they have uninterrupted, end-to-end visibility across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. With AppDynamicsApplication Performance Managementpowered by theApp iQ Platform, enterprises have flexibility to cost-effectively deploy and manage application workloads and the digital businesses built on them.

This latest milestone builds on AppDynamics’ existing support for .NET, Azure and Azure Marketplace, while providing new capabilities for Azure Web Apps and enhanced integration with Azure Marketplace.

“In the digital economy, cloud technology is powering the applications that have become core to companies’ ability to deliver the experience customers demand,” said Bhaskar Sunkara, cofounder and CTO, AppDynamics. “The best companies run the best technology. And through this new collaboration withMicrosoft, the world’s largest enterprises can use Azure’s platform across hybrid cloud environments with business and application performance assured by AppDynamics.”

Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president and chief evangelist, Microsoft Corp. said, “Our enterprise customers’ needs are at the forefront of how we innovate. As companies move more workloads to the cloud, their need for environment-specific performance monitoring increases. AppDynamics offers our customers enterprise scale performance monitoring to provide the insights they need to drive their digital transformation in our public cloud environment or our hybrid environments to enhance their existing investments.”

AppDynamics is working with Microsoft to integrate AppDynamics’ offerings with the newest Azure capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite in September—Azure MonitoringandAzure Resource Manager—to provide the deepest visibility up and down the application stack, including all Azure resources correlated with the application experience and the business results they support. This integration will be enabled through a simple template that will be available to customers via one-click access in Azure Marketplace.

AppDynamics empowers enterprises, including DIRECTV, eHarmony, Kraft, MTV Networks, NASDAQ, Pearson, Progressive Insurance and Sephora to deliver application performances that exceed the expectations of today’s customers. With a single view of their application portfolios, the ability to drill into any particular line of the potentially billions of lines of code flowing through their environments, enterprises can then deliver peak performance during their digital transformation. AppDynamics’ industry leading unified monitoring suite of applications, includingApplication Performance Management,End-User Monitoring, andInfrastructure Visibility, enables companies to optimize every endpoint, node and microservice on the journey.

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• AppDynamics advanced support for monitoring hybrid cloud environments built using Microsoft Azure is available at theAppDynamics Exchange
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AppDynamics is the Application Intelligence company. With AppDynamics, enterprises have real-time insights into application performance, user performance and business performance so they can move faster in an increasingly sophisticated, software-driven world. Our integrated suite of products is built on our innovative, enterprise-grade App iQ Platform that enables our customers to make faster decisions that enhance customer engagement and improve operational and business performance. AppDynamics is uniquely positioned to enable enterprises to accelerate their digital transformations by actively monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing complex application environments at scale which has led to proven success and trust with the Global 2000. For more information, visit appdynamics.com.

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— Jules Louis