边工作边旅行，旅行服务初创公司 Remote Year 获1200万美元 A 轮融资
云时代实现了任何时间、任何地点都可以处理工作事宜，在工作的同时去世界各地四处旅行，也成为一种可能，旅行服务初创公司 Remote Year 推出的项目——75人团队一年游历全球12座城市，可谓是格子间里上班族的终极梦想。
近日，Remote Year 宣布获得1200万美元 A 轮融资，Highland Capital Partners 领投，WeWork Labs 创始人 Jesse Middleton 和 Airbnb 创始人兼 CTO Nate Blecharczyk 参投。公司将利用该笔资金扩大团队规模，建设自己的基础设施，并且提升参与者的体验。
Remote Year 创建于2014年，因为公司没有中央总部，目前公司的85名员工分散在世界各地。Remote Year 项目一次征集75人组成团队，用一年的时间去往不同的国家工作和旅行。参与者每个月都会去一个新的城市，在远程处理自己所从事工作的同时，参观世界上12个不同的地方。不过，行程可能会根据项目不同有所改变，比方说，一些参与者需要按美国时间工作，这样行程就会避开前往亚洲。同时，参与者可以根据自身情况，随时休假并且归队。申请加入不要求英语流利，但要具备基本的英语会话能力。参与者需交纳5000美元定金和每月2000美元的费用，涵盖了差旅、住宿、带有网络的工作空间和社区活动。关于住宿，可以选择住公寓或酒店，但都有自己的私人卧室。
目前，生产力已经扩展到云端，也就是说在任何地方都能够办公。而且受周围环境激发时，人能变得更有创造性，生产力更高；更有价值的不是我们拥有的东西，而是我们与他人分享的体验。这两大趋势和理念都推动了 Remote Year 发展。
目前 Remote Year 已与100多家公司结成伙伴关系，其中包括20多家世界500强企业，有超过500名专业人士参与 Remote Year，前往的国家超过25个。
Remote Year 最近在克罗地亚的斯普利特开设了第一个永久性联合办公空间。
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提供企业内部应用商店的Apperian获1200万美元C轮融资
移动应用管理初创企业 Apperian 刚刚获得了 1200 万美元的 C 轮融资。
Apperian 是一家提供移动应用管理（MAM）的初创企业，成立于 2009年，总部位于波士顿，现有员工 67 人。所谓移动应用管理，是指提供内部开发的移动应用并对其进行管理，从某种意义上来说，可以视其为企业内部的应用商店。其契机是有一部分企业要求提供类似苹果应用商店或 Google Play 这样的公共移动应用集散地，供其在内部发布移动应用。要知道 2007年iPhone 才刚刚推出，2年 后 Apperian 就开始进入企业移动应用市场，这种当时消费者化为主流的移动市场还是需要眼光和勇气的。
从企业移动应用的发展轨迹来看，大多数企业一开始主要把注意力集中在移动设备管理（MDM）上，只是到了最近几年才开始慢慢扩大到移动应用的管理（因为一开始企业并没有多少移动 app）。因此，移动应用管理的功能是很多 MDM 平台的功能扩展，像被 VMWare 收购的 AirWatch、被黑莓收购的 Good Technology 就是这样。不过 Apperian 跟此类竞争对手的不同在于，它支持应用封装、独立应用容器，提供了移动应用安全与动态策略控制，允许客户在 MDM 系统之外部署 MAM，这样的话 Apperian 的客户可以向自己的合作伙伴、第三方人员等提供定制 app，从而更加灵活地进行移动应用管理。
目前 Apperian 的客户包括 Aetna、AT&T、Emory Healthcare、Reed Elsevier、丰田以及 Walgreens 等数千个组织，通过 Apperian 发布的移动应用已经超过了 170 万。
此轮融资由 First Floor Capital 领投，Bessemer Venture Partners、KPCB、North Bridge Venture Partners、Intel Capital 等跟投，此轮融资过后其总融资额已达 3900 万美元。此轮融资所得将用于加强市场营销、产品开发以及增加人力。此轮的领投方 First Floor Capital 是一家马来西亚的投资公司，Apperian 选择这家 VC 的部分目的正是在于希望借此来拓展亚洲市场。
APPERIAN CLOSES $12 MILLION IN SERIES C FUNDING AS IT TRANSFORMS THE ENTERPRISE MOBILITY MARKET
Company Growth Accelerates as App-Centric Security and Management Take Center Stage and MDM Alone is Deemed Insufficient
BOSTON – September 9, 2015 – Apperian® Inc., the mobile application management and security company, today announced it has completed a $12 million Series C funding round. New investor First Floor Capital joins Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, North Bridge Venture Partners, Intel Capital and CommonAngels Ventures in backing Apperian. The funding will be used to fuel growth and platform innovation as CIOs and line-of-business leaders increasingly need to secure and manage the proliferation of apps and data in the enterprise.
MAM Offers a Superior Solution to the Enterprise
With enterprise apps, BYOD and contracted workforces on the rise, enterprises are increasingly tasked with supporting an environment of unmanaged devices – mobile devices not under corporate mobile device management (MDM). This creates a barrier that prevents organizations from securely distributing critical mobile apps to the users who need them.
As Gartner’s August 2015 report, ‘How to Live With Unmanaged Mobile Devices’ states “Gartner clients who have tried MDM and have received poor feedback from their workforce, which perceives it as too invasive on their mobile devices, have been inquiring about alternative methods to securely provide enterprise access from mobile devices.”
Even organizations using MDM are seeking out additional layers of security and technology to insulate apps that matter. In “Mobile Applications and Cloud: Companies, Vendors Take Aim at Mobilizing Business Workflows,” 451 Research states, “Enterprise mobility management built around applications represents the future of ensuring enterprise data is protected and locked down and end users have the access they need to mobile service.”
These trends have driven demand for and adoption of Apperian’s mobile app security and management platform. The new funding will enable the company to accelerate delivery of new security and management capabilities as its technology has evolved into the industry’s most extensible platform.
Since completing its B round in January 2013, Apperian has:
Increased its annualized recurring revenue by more than 250%
Increased users under management by 400%
Enabled more than 1.7 million app deployments
Nearly doubled its average account size
Won numerous Fortune 500 and public sector customer engagements, including Aetna, AT&T, Emory Healthcare, Reed Elsevier, Toyota and Walgreens. Increasingly, Apperian is being selected as the corporate system of record for mobile app security and management
“Arming our employees with mobile apps that provide easy access to key systems has been a key initiative to improve the company’s productivity,” said Cheryl Van, Head of Learning and Development at RMS. “Delivering intuitive and private access to these mobile apps is incredibly fast and easy to maintain with Apperian. We’re driving high levels of secure adoption and our team members simply appreciate easy access via their personal mobile devices.”
“We’ve experienced incredible growth in demand for our platform over the past year as organizations are running into the limitations of traditional, device-centric enterprise mobility management products,” said Brian Day, CEO of Apperian. “Some of the world’s largest companies and public sector organizations have turned to Apperian for app-centric security and management methods so they can securely reach every single user. We’re excited to see this validation of our approach from new and existing customers, investors and analysts alike.”
To learn more about Apperian’s Enterprise App Store and Mobile Application Management platform, please visitwww.apperian.com.
About Apperian
Apperian is the leading enterprise-class mobile application management (MAM®) and security platform for the delivery of critical apps to 100% of users across an organization. Apperian provides fine-grained security and dynamic policy controls at the individual app level for deployments where mobile device management approaches are not possible or desired, such as BYOD, contract workers and other unmanaged devices.
Apperian’s easy to use interface offers a private, branded consumer-like enterprise app store that greatly increases mobile app adoption and a comprehensive app management back-end for administrators to easily protect and manage their business apps and data. The company has helped IT and line of business professionals secure and deliver more than 1.7 million enterprise apps to organizations such as Maxim Integrated Products, NVIDIA, Nationwide, New Balance, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
来源： Apperian
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