Salesforce Buys VC-backed Heroku in $249M Deal

Salesforce.com will pay as much as $249 million to buy venture-backed cloud computing start-up Heroku. Salesforce will pay $212 million in cash for the company. It also plans to issue $27 million in stock to Heroku employees, and an additional $10 million in cash for unvested Heroku shares, Reuters reported. San Francisco-based Heroku is a cloud-software platform company which charges developers to host applications written in the Ruby programming language, Reuters said. Formed in 2007, Heroku is backed by investors Redpoint Ventures, Ignition Partners, Baseline Ventures, Harrison Metal Capital and Y Combinator.

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