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Drupal Developers Acquia Raise $7 Million

by mtippett | December 20, 2007 at 09:59 am

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Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal and and an advisor to NowPublic has started up an interesting new venture. Dries is an exceptional guy and this business will do well with him behind it. Good luck Dries.

Only a few days ago did Dries Buytaert, the Belgian developer behind Drupal, the open-source content management system, decide to launch a start-up to take parts of the effort commercial. Today, Acquia, the company formed to pusue that effort, has gathered together a $7 million first round investment. The round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners as well as Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Buytaert put Acquia together to be “a company that is to Drupal what Ubuntu or RedHat are to Linux. If we want Drupal to grow by at least a factor of 10, keeping Drupal a hobby project as it is today, and taking a regular programming job at a big Belgian bank is clearly not going to cut it.”

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nukegingrich

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at 12:16 on December 20th, 2007

Dries' accomplishments are certainly impressive.

BTW Michael, is NP powered by Drupal?

mtippett

at 09:55 on December 21st, 2007

Hey nuke,

Yes we are drupal powered. We have one of the largest drupal shops around. Cheers, M.

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at 15:34 on March 26th, 2009

Thanks nice post.

epc uk (not verified)

at 15:35 on March 26th, 2009

Cool post.

epc uk (not verified)

at 15:36 on March 26th, 2009

Nice stuff dude.

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at 19:13 on March 27th, 2009

Congratulations! It's really good when there's money to be invested in open source projects whilte it gives profit to business people(I mean theres more motivation I think for business people to put money[and this is good for project] in open source while it gives them good profit) the most important thing is to do all this stuff(as Sami Khan sad) without ruining the GPL dynamic of Drupal.