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Nuvepro Secures $400K Seed Funding Through 1Crowd to Fuel Growth With the New-age Managed Cloud Environment SolutionBANGALORE, November 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The solution helps CIOs to adopt the cloud faster and make the most out of their cloud investments. It improves organizational efficiency through ready-to-use infrastructure and application provisioning. Nuvepro, a managed cloud environment solutions provider, today announced that it has raised $400K investment led by 1Crowd and its investor community. The investment will be used to deepen their R&D efforts and continue to expand into the worldwide market. 1Crowd is a unique angel investment platform focused on early stage ventures. It has more than 500 investors, 50 mentors and has made over 12 investments since March 2016. With the funds, the company will be able to leverage 1Crowd's ecosystem of mentors, industry connects and investor community to benefit from strategic to operational support. As part of the managed cloud environment solution, Nuvepro delivers ready-to-use infrastructure and applications on a single or multiple clouds, automates the resource provisioning, manages cloud resources & spend, ensures governance and compliance of cloud usage, integrates with your existing tools. All of this is done through a single-source self-service portal. The platform ensures that CIOs have complete control over resources, hierarchy, and subscription management. The embedded analytics provides insights that will help CIOs to track the cloud usage, optimize the resources and cut costs by over 50%. Giridhar LV, CEO, Nuvepro, said, "8% of enterprises are using the cloud. However, the CIOs are still finding it challenging to increase the cloud adoption and utilization. The returns on their cloud investments are far from realized. Nuvepro was founded with a singular vision to make the cloud work, help CIOs make the most of their cloud investments and enable them to take the competitive-edge. We do it by taking complete ownership through managed cloud environment so that CIOs don't need to worry about provisioning, governance, security, skill building, shadow IT and managing multiple clouds." Anup Kuruvilla, Co-founder of 1Crowd, said, "Along with a well-respected, experienced and dedicated team, Nuvepro addresses key modern day challenge of cloud adoption. Microsoft Azure and Amazon web services have made strong strides in moving resources to the cloud and making the value proposition for enterprises attractive. We believe Nuvepro would be able to form a crucial bridge between enterprises and cloud providers by driving faster adoption. The underlying business model of providing ready to use cloud infrastructure available on a subscription or pay per go basis is also a strong pull for enterprises." Krishnakumar Natarajan, Chairman, Mindtree, said, "Providing quick access to cloud infrastructure is a key pain point for Enterprises and Nuvepro is a leader in that space. This fund raising demonstrates investor interest and support for Nuvepro enhancing its leadership position." The startup was founded in 2014 by Janakiraman S, Giridhar LV, Umesh Bhatt, Moyukh Goswami and Rajesh Vasudevan, all having significant years of professional experience. Janakiraman, Chairman, Nuvepro said, "The debate on cloud is over. The focus now is to improve the cloud adoption and utilization. 1Crowd's trust and investment in this vision gives us extra push to enable more CIOs to realize the true benefits of the cloud." About Nuvepro Nuvepro enables organizations to improve the cloud adoption and utilization through its 'managed cloud environment solution'. We take complete ownership in providing ready-to-use infrastructure and applications on any cloud, automating the resource provisioning, managing cloud resources & spend, and ensuring governance and compliance of cloud usage. We start at any level of your cloud adoption and move it to the matured level where you maximize the returns from your cloud adoption. Visit http://www.nuvepro.com for more details. About 1Crowd 1Crowd is a unique angel investment platform focused on investing in early stage ventures. 1Crowd and its investor community has made 12 investments since last year. 1Crowd has close to 500 investors on board and over 50 eminent people as mentors. Media Contact: 
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