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Little Known Apache Mesos Project Helps Mesosphere Raise $10M From Andreessen Horowitz

Mesosphere, the company trying to build a business around the little-known open source Apache Mesos project, just racked up a $10 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz. Here’s why it attracted that kind of cash.

Mesos, software for automatic scaling, was in fact built around five years ago and is already in use on more than 50,000 cores at Twitter, according to Florian Leibert, CEO and co-founder of Mesosphere. EBay, AirBnB, Netflix and HubSpot are also fans.

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