[1] The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa.

[2][3] It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

[4] The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.

[14] Nimbula Director software allows users to implement IaaS-style private, public and hybrid clouds.

It can manage both on- and off-premises infrastructure through a Web UI, an API or a command line interface.