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Cloudkick

Cloudkick is system to manage cloud servers, such as the Rackspace Cloud and Amazon's EC2. Cloudkick provides an easy to use monitoring/alerting solution to support your production infrastructure on the cloud. Cloudkick also gives you a window into your cloud deployment by providing detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. Cloudkick's mission is to make cloud servers easy to use, where ever the customer needs them.

AcquiredWinter 2009Other

About Cloudkick

Cloudkick is system to manage cloud servers, such as the Rackspace Cloud and Amazon's EC2. Cloudkick provides an easy to use monitoring/alerting solution to support your production infrastructure on the cloud. Cloudkick also gives you a window into your cloud deployment by providing detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. Cloudkick's mission is to make cloud servers easy to use, where ever the customer needs them.

Risk Analysis

Category Risk

22%death rate

Other: 130 of 604 startups failed

MEDIUM

Team Size

11people

Median for failed in Other: 2

Median for active in Other: 4

Founded 2009 — older batches naturally have higher attrition rates. Death rate comparisons should account for age.

External Resources

Post-mortem content hosted on startups.rip — we provide the analytics layer.