Superstar-backed Rescale nets $6.4 million to build a better engineering cloud

July 15, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Fortune.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Engineering jobs—things like the design of a complex airplane or car part and the virtual testing of that design—pose special and intense computing challenges. And that’s the job San Francisco-based Rescale, which just announced $6.4 million in funding,

The money comes in the form of a seed round led by the Data Collective with contributions from such luminaries as Amazon AMZN -0.84% founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, Ycombinator’s Paul Graham and Sam Altman, and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel…


Rescale’s goal is to harness and manage resources on private and public clouds as well as national supercomputer centers and tune them to perform these compute-intensive jobs, Joris Poort, Rescale CEO and cofounder told Fortune…

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