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Blink Looks To Simplify Cloud Operations Management With $26M Investment

Mar 09, 2022•over 3 years ago

Amount Raised

$26 Million

London

Description

Blink’s co-founders have been working in security and automation for a number of years, and they observed that there was a strong overlap between developer operations (DevOps) and security operations (SecOps) when it came to managing cloud infrastructure.

Company Information

Company

Blink

Location

London, Ontario, Canada

About

The startup will be using the capital to double down on growth. The company has built some functionality, such as its chat feature, in-house, but otherwise its strategy is to integrate, integrate, integrate. The company is planning to hire some 40 more people in New York as it looks to double its base of 60 employees to 120.“Today’s top enterprise software companies are reexamining the way we work; Blink is uniquely positioned to lead in this category for frontline workers”, said Daniel Kirchleitner, Partner at Next47, in a statement. Blink was founded in London — where it has found strong traction with metropolitan bus networks (where some 5,000 bus drivers are using the Blink app) and the NHS (where thousands of front-line workers in clinical and non-clinical roles are also on Blink). Blink currently has some 93,000 users, so there is a lot of growing to do.

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