Customer Success Stories

Tealet is a Rackspace-powered startup that connects independent tea farmers with tea lovers. The e-retailer works directly with close to 25 tea growers in nine different countries to sell their products directly to the market. Customers can purchase tea online in individual packets, or they can subscribe to a service that will send four different types of teas to their doorstep every other month.

Rackspace has gone top shelf this year during SXSW Interactive 2013, taking over Champions Sports Bar & Restaurant in the heart of festival activity. Events are taking place daily, and one must-see is the Rackspace Winner’s Circle. Inside the Winner’s Circle, the Rackspace Startup Program has assembled an eclectic group of startups to show off their businesses in a live setting. We are spotlighting startups that are using open cloud technologies to build their businesses. So take some time, head over to Champions, and step into the Winner’s Circle to visit with startups that are doing amazing things on the Rackspace Open Cloud!

The story begins in the summer of 2010 in Tampico, Mexico during the FIFA World Cup. Two soccer fans, passionate about the game they were watching in the comfort of their own home, were hungry and wanted to order food in. It was at that moment when they realized how difficult it was to find a restaurant that delivered food in their neighborhood. That experience created the spark that became SeMeAntoja, a social network to order food online.

I just got back from a trip to Los Angeles – a city that is experiencing a massive startup movement. I was so fired up after meeting with lots of great companies that I felt compelled to write something here and also share some of the video we shot last week. It was electric – the accelerators, incubators and VCs are pushing the innovation envelope and developing what could be the next big thing.

TruQC is a cloud-based quality control documentation app for the iPad. Its goal is to make it easier to manage and monitor projects, achieve true objectivity, keep data safe with real-time syncing, have pertinent data at your fingertips and ensure the necessary documents are always in one place.

This blog post is written and contributed by Cip Palacios, head of implementation at Qv21 Technologies, LLC. Qv21 is a Rackspace customer and a leader in SaaS (Software as a Service) logistics solutions for the Oil Field Services industry. Based in Newport, R.I., and with offices throughout the US and overseas, Qv21 Technologies focuses on improving logistics efficiency in the oil and gas industry. Using the latest proven and readily available technologies, Qv21 makes its cutting edge solutions easily accessible to companies of all sizes without large capital expense. To find out more, visit Qv21 at www.Qv21.com.

Musicians focus a lot of their efforts on promoting themselves to fans, but tend to fall short when sharing their projects with other professionals in the industry that can help them expand their reach and advance their careers. It can be a pain keeping your press kit up-to-date. So, the team at Indie Ambassador has created a web app called Presskit.to, a new kind of electronic press kit (EPK) that allows music professionals of all shapes and sizes to more effectively share the full picture of any given project, album or tour.

This is a guest post written and contributed by Brian Putt, CTO of Heyo, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner. Heyo provides drag-and-drop simplicity for business marketing: social, mobile and web.

In the Las Vegas dictionary, a high roller is a gambler who wagers large amounts of money. The Vegas slang for a high roller is “whale.”  Whales are people who play a minimum of $50,000 per hand, spin or roll, and who have no problem winning or losing millions in one night. The online entertainment industry is now increasingly driven by whales, particularly where per download or a la carte pricing is used. AuManil is targeting the expected $40 billion free-to-play online games market where they help manage the most valuable players — the 1 percent of players that generate 50 percent of a game’s revenues, the whales.

Adam Peterson is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at StartX, Stanford University’s student startup accelerator and comes from a background of product design, finance and video. He is currently the CEO of VipeCloud, which allows you to take control of video sharing. A platform for creators of video to sell videos, VipeCloud enables consumers to subscribe to providers of expert content and creators to earn a recurring revenue stream. VipeCloud’s AutoPush technology offers creators unique controls over the digital rights management of their videos, increasing the creators’ capability to market, measure and succeed.