Apigee

Apigee | March 03, 2016

Apigee, a software data management management company, was reportedly valued at $2.4 billion the last time it raised private investor cash in the summer of 2014. Then, in April 2015, Apigee held an IPO at $17 a share, valuing the company at $494.5 million, which is a steep dip. Worse, Apigee closed out 2015 trading at $8.61 per share, or 49.35% less than its IPO price. As one of 2015's few tech IPOs, Apigee is a contributing factor to a growing sense of dread among venture investors. And the...

Apigee | March 03, 2016

It’s absolutely freezing in the Tobacco Dock event centre in London’s Docklands, where I meet up with Apigee CEO Chet Kapoor. It’s so cold, in fact, that our interview has to be conducted on chairs moved as close as possible to a portable space heater and we occasionally strain to hear each other over the noise of its fan. But Kapoor isn’t letting the cold get to him. He’s having a “terrific” day, he says. The company has just announced record second qua...

Apigee | March 02, 2016

Aren’t we tired of talking about this so-called drive towards ‘digital disruption’ yet? It appears not, but there might still a few fresh themes and avenues to explore. Let’s remember, 100 years ago (during the second industrial revolution), firms still had a Chief Electricity Officer (CEO) to handle this new thing called electricity. If we accept that we’ve just been through the third industrial revolution (the PC era) and the disruption that mobile-first has broug...

ZDNet | January 14, 2020

DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and we take the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management. The 2019 survey focuses on observability, bringing DevOps engineers' insights ...