In addition, the company is developing an academic program, which already has participation from four unnamed major Universities.
This site also has participation from the folks at NIST with links to there work on setting the terminology and definitions for the cloud computing industry.
On the publisher side, Amazon has participation from all the major music publishers and "hundreds, if not thousands," of smaller publishers, says Boom. Amazon's customers won't have to take any action to switch on AutoRip.
Originally planning to raise $15 million, an additional $9 million was added to the round, which also has participation from Babson Capital Management and Netsertive's existing investors, including RRE Ventures, Greycroft Partners and Harbert Venture Partners.
That round has participation from the likes of KKR, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners and it is said to value the Epic Games business — which also includes Unreal Engine for game development — at more than $15 billion.
Beyond the inclusion of Jeff's story, the SAP version has participation from the highest level of the company, including SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe, and Jan Grasshoff, SVP of Talent, Leadership, and Organization and the highest-ranking out, gay executive at SAP.
