American-Russian web server publisher Nginx secures $43 million from Goldman Sachs

Yesterday Nginx (pronounced “engine-x”), a US-based open source web server publisher with Russian origins, announced a  $43 million Series C round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.

Ngnix’s founder, Igor Sysoev, is a former system administrator at Rambler, a pioneer Russian web company. He initially released his server software in 2004 and has been developing his web server solution since that time. Nginx was formally incorporated as a company in August 2011. The startup, founded in Moscow, is now headquartered in San Francisco but still has engineers in Moscow.

Ngnix’s Series A round took place in October 2011 with $3 million raised from e.ventures, Moscow-based Runa Capital, and US fund MDS Capital. Since then, the company has secured several new rounds of up to $14 million.