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Electric Cloud

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American software company

Electric Cloud, Inc. was a privately held, DevOps software company based in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 2002, Electric Cloud was a provider of application release orchestration (ARO) tools, automating release pipelines and managing application life cycles. Electric Cloud's products included ElectricFlow and ElectricAccelerator.3 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2002Founded1
  • Industrysoftware industry1
  • HeadquartersSunnyvale1
  • Websitewww.electric-cloud.com
  • Incorporated inDE5
  • Business address35 S. Market Street #100, San Jose, Ca 951135

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Electric Cloud, Inc. was a privately held, DevOps software company based in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 2002, Electric Cloud was a provider of application release orchestration (ARO) tools, automating release pipelines and managing application life cycles. Electric Cloud's products included ElectricFlow and ElectricAccelerator.3

The story

Electric Cloud was founded on April 29, 2002, by John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl, and John Graham-Cumming. In November 2002, Electric Cloud released its first product, ElectricAccelerator. In November 2006, ElectricCommander was released. In June 2014, ElectricCommander became the foundation for the orchestration platform called ElectricFlow.

In October 2014, Electric Cloud partnered with author and DevOps specialist Gene Kim to co-found the DevOps Enterprise Summit. The conference focused on agile, continuous delivery, and DevOps transformations within enterprise companies.

In October 2017, Carmine Napolitano, formerly Electric Cloud's CFO, was appointed CEO.

In 2018, Electric Cloud received the highest scores for three out of three use cases as defined in Gartner's 2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration.

Prior to its acquisition, Electric Cloud raised $64.6 million from US Venture Partners, Siemens Venture Capital, Mayfield Fund, RRE Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and other investors.

Acquisition by CloudBees

In April 2019, CloudBees acquired Electric Cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

From Wikipedia’s article on Electric Cloud, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6

Timeline

  1. 2002Founded Founded1

SEC filer profile

How Electric Cloud is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARELECTRIC CLOUD INC2
  • CIK0001175319
  • Employer ID (EIN)45-04750142
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 312
  • Business address35 S. Market Street #100, San Jose, CA 951132
  • Phone(408) 419-43002
  • On EDGAR sinceMay 31, 20022
  • Filings9 in all: REGDEX (5), D (3), D/A (1)2

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