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Weaveworks, the makers of Weave networking and monitoring for containers and microservices, has secured $15 million in Series B funding led by new investor GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from existing investor Accel.

Weaveworks will use the investment to meet the rapidly increasing demand for tools to deploy, monitor and manage cloud-native container environments, furthering innovation in product development and sales and marketing.

For software teams moving to containers and microservices, Weaveworks’ Weave provides a simple and consistent way to connect and manage all the moving parts. Weave provides simple and reliable networking across development, test and production environments and any mix of data centers and public clouds. Weave also provides a unique console to visualize and interact with container and microservice deployments in development and production.

“Complex modern infrastructures and applications require visibility, and microservices and containers are no exception. A category leader will emerge in microservices management, and Weaveworks' traction, team and vision position them well to become that leader,” said Tom Hulme, GV General Partner. “We look forward to seeing Weaveworks use this investment to accelerate product delivery, and complete their commercial and open source stack.”

“We’re delighted to welcome GV as a new investor, and Accel as a repeat investor in Weaveworks,” said Alexis Richardson, co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks and chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee. “Both share our vision of simplifying microservice-based application development by minimizing the connectivity and deployment complexities, and providing unique visual ways to understand and manage cloud-native applications.”