History

Phurnace is now part of BMC Software, one of the premier independent software companies in the world. Phurnace Software’s founders have decades of experience managing and deploying enterprise applications. Like our customers, our founders were only too familiar with the challenges posed by application servers that had to be up and running. They lived with the awful inefficiencies and wasted time caused by rampant errors, constant false starts, workaround scripting and evermore complex installation documentation. Phurnace Software reflects our founders’ conviction that there has to be a better way.

Our founders’ compelling vision, and the software supporting it, has been recognized at every stage in the company’s evolution. The original Phurnace Software business plan won the University of Texas Moot Corp competition, judged by actual investors. The company was subsequently hosted by the nationally recognized Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), run by the University of Texas, where Phurnace focused on next-stage market research, refined the products’ capabilities and secured early customers.

In 2007 Phurnace raised its first professional seed capital from DFJ Mercury, a Houston-based early stage fund affiliated with Draper Fisher Jurvetson Ventures. In mid 2008 Phurnace completed its Series A fundraising with an investment led by S3 Ventures, a Texas-based technology venture firm. BMC Software acquired Phurnace Software in January of 2010.