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Heroku (YC W08) — Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud

Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps.

Heroku is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2008 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud. The founders listed are Orion Henry (Founder), James Lindenbaum (Founder), Adam Wiggins (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

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New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Winter 2008
batch
300
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2008
Announced2012-01-17
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size300
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://heroku.com

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Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps. Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 60+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day.

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