VC-backed cloud network services provider Virtela sells for $525 mln

Venture-backed Virtela Technology Services Inc. announced it has been acquired by NTT Communications Corp. for $525 million in cash. Virtela, which provides cloud network services, had previously raised $65 million in venture funding from Norwest Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Newton Technology Partners and a number of other investors, according to data from Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB). Norwest led all the rounds in Virtela, which was founded in 2000 and incubated at Norwest's office in Palo Alto, Calif. Promod Haque, senior managing partner at Norwest, currently serves as chairman of Virtela, which is based in Greenwood Village, Colo.

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