Blue Box, the Seattle startup that offers an on-demand private cloud as a service, just completed its series B financing round of $14 million with new funds coming from an undisclosed telecommunications provider. As part of the strategic investment, the telecommunications provider plans to offer the Blue Box service to its customers.
Blue Box closed the first $10 million of the round back in October.
“We are very excited that Blue Box Cloud has quickly been accepted as a leading PCaaS offering in the marketplace,” said Blue Box CEO Matthew Schiltz in a press release. “The combination of our unique IP and true operating experience makes it possible for BlueBox to deliver consistent, reliable, efficient and agile private cloud infrastructure as a service directly and through channel partners, and it’s that model we’re moving to implement in 2015 with our partners.”
Schiltz is the former CEO of Tier 3, which sold to CenturyLink in 2013, and DocuSign, a heavily-funded maker of electronic signature technology. The company was founded by Jesse Proudman, who won GeekWire’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” award at last year’s GeekWire Awards.
Other participants in the round include Voyager Capital and Founders Collective. The company now employs 60 people.
