Chef

Chef is an American corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington, which produces software allowing information technology departments to automate the process in which they configure, deploy and scale servers and applications. The Chef software is used to streamline the task of configuring & maintaining a company's servers, and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Rackspace and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to automatically provision and configure new machines. About 70% of Chef’s clients come from Fortune 1000 companies, including major organizations like Facebook, Nordstrom, Disney, and General Electric. The company was founded as Opscode in 2008 by current Chief Technology Officer Adam Jacob, Jesse Robbins, Barry Steinglass, and Nathan Haneysmith. Chef is based in Seattle, with regional offices in Atlanta, North Carolina, London, and Silicon Valley. Chef is a venture funded company, as of Sep 2015 Chef is valued at $360 million after a $40 million funding round. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(company)