Russian Nginx Raises $3 Million From International Investors

Russian company Nginx has raised $3 million from German BV Capital , Russian Runa Capital and MSD Capital , Michael Dell 's venture fund, as reported by RBK Daily . Founded by Russian engineer Igor Sysoev 10 years ago, Nginx develops and maintains an open source Unix-based web and mail proxy server for large scale, fast paced, content heavy web sites. TechCrunch , Facebook , Groupon and Wordpress.org are amongst its customers, achieving high density, scalability and predictable performance. According to Nginx, its products power over 40 million domains.