NGINX gets another $ 20 million investment

Company NGINX , known for its super-fast web server Nginx , successfully completed the next round of venture capital investments, which received $ 20 million. Investors were e.ventures, Runa Capital, Index Ventures and Nginx CEO Gus Robertson. The company plans to spend money on product development, expanding its community, marketing, and geographic expansion outside the United States.

In a company blog, Gus Robertson wrote: “NGINX is a new standard for high-speed web applications. We have an amazing opportunity to become partners of companies of any size - from small startups to media giants. More and more companies are moving to Nginx every day. The investment will help all these companies provide their users with services at the level of the largest market players. ” In the previous round of investments in October 2013, the company managed to get $ 10 million.

Nginx server is installed on 20% of the million most visited sites on the Internet. Among the 10,000 most popular sites, Nginx holds a 40% share. Just over a year ago, the company launched a commercial service that provides support to server users and already has 250 clients. The cost of an annual subscription at the basic support rate is $ 1350.