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| industry = [[Internet]], [[cloud computing]] ▼| founded = {{Start date and age|2011|06|24}}
| founders = Moisey Uretsky<br />Ben Uretsky<br />Jeff Carr<br />Alec Hartman<br />Mitch Wainer ▼| hq_location_city = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| hq_location_country = [[United States|U.S.]]
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = Ben Uretsky<br /><small>([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])</small>
▲| industry = [[Internet]], [[cloud computing]]
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| services = [[Internet hosting service]]
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| website = {{URL|https://www.digitalocean.com/}}
▲| founders = Moisey Uretsky<br />Ben Uretsky<br />Jeff Carr<br />Alec Hartman<br />Mitch Wainer
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'''DigitalOcean, Inc.''' is an [[United States|American]] [[Cloud computing|cloud]] infrastructure provider that provisions [[Virtual private server|virtual servers]] for [[software developer]]s.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Iskold|first1=Alex|title=How DigitalOcean Won Over Investors|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247635|publisher=Entrepreneur}}</ref> The company is headquartered in [[New York City]] and possesses [[data center]]s worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Company Overview of DigitalOcean, Inc.|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=243910980|publisher=Bloomberg Business}}</ref> DigitalOcean provides cloud services that help developers deploy and scale applications that run on multiple computers simultaneously.
DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 by Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer, Jeff Carr, and Alec Hartman.<ref>{{cite web|title=DigitalOcean|url=https://angel.co/digitalocean|publisher=AngelList}}</ref> The company received $123.21 million in funding across four venture rounds from [[Techstars]], [[CrunchFund]], [[Andreessen Horowitz]], [[Access Industries]] and IA Ventures. It has also raised $180 million in [[Venture debt|debt financing]] from [[Fortress Investment Group]] and [[KeyBank|KeyBanc Capital Markets]].<ref>https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean</ref>
As of December 2015, DigitalOcean is the second largest [[Web hosting service|hosting]] company in the world in terms of web-facing computers.<ref name="DigitalOcean - Growth">{{cite web|title=DigitalOcean - Growth|url=http://trends.netcraft.com/www.digitalocean.com|publisher=Netcraft}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Metz|first1=Cade|title=Amazon Isn’t the Only One Killing It With Cloud Computing|url=http://www.wired.com/2015/05/amazon-isnt-one-killing-cloud-computing|publisher=Wired}}</ref>
==History==
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