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title: 'Heads in the clouds: Portland''s Cloudability shares its startup story'
date: '2013-07-17T10:50:53-07:00'
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categories:
  - Oregon
  - Portland
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  - Cloud
  - cloudability
  - PIE
  - Portland
  - 'portland seed fund'
  - Startup
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# Heads in the clouds: Portland's Cloudability shares its startup story

Arguably, [Cloudability](http://cloudability.com "Cloudability") has been one of the most successful Portland startups to emerge in the last couple of years. And they’ve done so by successfully leveraging a number of opportunities that have come their way. Starting out of borrowed space in [Puppet Labs](http://puppetlabs.com "Puppet Labs"), joining [PIE](http://piepdx.com "PIE"), taking funding from [Portland Seed Fund](http://portlandseedfund.com "Portland Seed Fund") and local angels, joining [TechStars](http://techstars.com "TechStars"), and getting investment from [500 startups](http://500.co "500 startups").

It’s worth hearing the story of [Oregon’s 2013 startup of the year](http://siliconflorist.com/2013/05/02/oregon-technology-awards-names-cloudability-startup-year/ "Oregon Technology Awards names Cloudability Startup of the Year") firsthand.





For more, see [The Next Web’s Startup Stories](http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/07/17/startup-stories-cloudability-helps-to-democratize-the-cloud/ "Startup Stories: Cloudability").