Last week, BetterCloud’s New York team spent the week at our Atlanta office in the Atlanta Tech Village and it inspired me to put my thoughts about the city and the tech scene down in a blog post.

Southern Roots

BetterCloud has always had two homes, one in New York City and the other in Atlanta. We knew from the beginning keeping the offices and teams connected would be a challenge, but after more than a year and a half of working at both ends of the east coast, we’ve maintained our groove. Our dev team calls Atlanta home while Marketing, Support and our leadership team have established BetterCloud’s headquarters in the Big Apple.

Atlanta has always had a special place in my heart – I graduated from Emory and spent 7 years working in the city before moving back to New York. Atlanta has incredible engineering talent, great schools, restaurants and culture, but the city’s underdeveloped VC scene has caused too many good technologists and … Read more →

Since founding BetterCloud in November 2011, our team has more than doubled and we’re still growing! Before the end of the year, we have plans to double the size of both our development and customer advocate teams in Atlanta and New York City respectively.

What’s Propelling Our Growth?

We’ve built a great product, used by more than 17,000 organizations with 7.5 million users, but there’s still so much to be done. In the next sixth months, we plan to release an entirely new UI, formally introduce a new management console for Google Apps resellers and roll out paid plans for FlashPanel, our flagship product — and much more.

Bolstered by the support of our growing customer base and a recent round of Series A funding, we’re moving full speed ahead with team BetterCloud.

What Makes a Great Team Member?

Our team members are:

Hard working Smart Passionate … Read more →

You may have heard we just announced a $5 million Series A round of financing. We started raising this round and talking to investors in late fall of last year.

As you can probably imagine, going through this process involves taking a step back from the day-to-day work and looking at our overall strategy and evolution. Fundraising forces you to come up with a coherent way to explain your business model to someone unfamiliar with the concept. You have to show what sparked your idea, articulate what problem you are solving, demonstrate progress, such as genuine market adoption, and present your longer term vision.

Given that we just closed the round, it seems like a good opportunity to reflect on BetterCloud’s story so far, as well as give some insight into how we plan to use the investment and what we learned throughout the entire process.

Where We Came From

BetterCloud was founded in November … Read more →

As 2012, our first year, draws to a close, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank our customers around the globe.

Since launching FlashPanel this July, we’ve seen huge product adoption with over 5 million end users and 13,000 organizations using the product to manage and secure their Google Apps domains. Our success is propelled by the feedback and support of our customers, and we will continue to incorporate your ideas and input into the product to make FlashPanel in 2013 even better.

Thanks and happy holidays and be sure to check out our holiday card, made using Google technology (of course).

Wishing you a happy and healthy new year,

David Politis BetterCloud Founder and CEO