YellowDog Announces £3M Funding Round, New Chairman & Key Hires

Bristol-based dynamic workload management provider YellowDog is boosting its growth with enterprises having high demand compute requirements by expanding its team and further investing in its world-leading product.

Bristol, UK – 25th March 2025 – YellowDog, the leader in dynamic workload management and optimisation, has announced a £3M funding round, the appointment of Niall Murphy as Chairman, and expansion of its team to support its continued growth.

YellowDog’s innovative, high-performance enterprise platform helps organisations with high-demand applications spanning heterogenous compute environments to optimise and mobilise their workloads across on premise and cloud resources with ease, helping customers make decisions faster by increasing scale and improving performance. YellowDog is focused on customers in financial services and similar industries with high-demand compute and data usage across different cloud providers and regions, as well as their own environments. These enterprises are facing ever increasing demand for cloud resources with AI, modelling, analysis and transaction applications, and at the same time seeking improved resilience and cost optimisation with the ability to manage their workloads easily, dynamically, intelligently and securely across multiple environments. YellowDog provides these capabilities.

“With the successful funding round, appointment of Niall Murphy, and our further strengthened team, YellowDog is uniquely positioned to meet the growing demand for intelligent compute optimisation,” said CEO Bruce Beckloff.  “We are excited to continue leading the way in dynamic workload management, helping our customers increase revenues by making decisions faster. ”

Niall Murphy Appointed Chairman

Entrepreneur and investor Niall Murphy (co-founder The Cloud acquired by Sky, founder EVRYTHNG acquired by Digimarc) has been appointed as YellowDog’s non-executive Chairman. Murphy brings a wealth of experience in scaling B2B technology-based businesses spanning European and North American markets.

“YellowDog’s vision of seamlessly moving workloads across diverse compute environments is compelling, and I’m excited to be joining YellowDog’s board at such a crucial stage in its growth,” said Murphy. “With its strong foundation in cloud workload optimisation and compelling customer adoption, I’m looking forward to supporting YellowDog’s scale-up with enterprise cloud customers across the globe.”

£3M Funding Round to Fuel Innovation and Growth

YellowDog’s £3M funding round involving Bloc Ventures and strategic investors will drive further advancements in the company’s dynamic workload management platform. YellowDog is further advancing its AI-powered orchestration for workload optimisation and management across multiple compute environments with ease, agility and security. The company is expanding its presence in key European and North American markets.

Team expansion includes the appointment of Winston Bond as Director of Sales Engineering and Charles Johnson as Account Executive. “Winston and Charles bring important expertise that expand YellowDog’s reach and enhance our delivery of innovative, efficient solutions tailored to our customer needs.” said Mark Noctor, Chief Commercial Officer.

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