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Joyent Cloud to Power Amplify Startup Incubator

This week Joyent announced that their Joyent Cloud will become the lead cloud services sponsor of Amplify, a Los Angeles startup accelerator and venture capital fund.

After we learned about Amplify pre-launch, it was a no-brainer for Joyent Cloud to sponsor Amplify and provide compute credits on our infrastructure. Amplify’s management is deciding exactly which startup deploys what on Joyent Cloud but we are extremely impressed with the first major one – Look.io, an in-app real-time support plug-in for mobile apps. They use Node.js to make sure that chat through their platform is super fast even over sketchy mobile network connections. As such, Look.io is targeting the Real-Time Web. Since we like to think that Joyent Cloud is the Real-Time Cloud, then its a perfect fit.

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