Fremont: California-based Iron.io, a cloud application services provider, has closed $1.4 million in seed funding led by Baseline Ventures. Other investors who participated in the funding round were Ignition Partners, Cloud Capital Partners, Citrix Systems, Jonathan Siegel, Matt Ocko, Jared Kopf and Lance White. Steve Anderson, founder of Baseline Ventures, will join Iron.io’s Board of Directors.

Iron.io plans to use the fund to continue expanding product development efforts, accelerating multi-language and multi-cloud support and increasing customer and partner acquisition. The company has also released its product IronMQ into public beta and available for a free trial. IronMQ is a message queue for orchestrating data and event flow within cloud applications and between systems. Expanding the company’s product line, IronMQ joins Iron.io’s initial service IronWorker, originally launched as SimpleWorker in January 2011.

“Message and tasks queues are core components within the modern cloud stack. Most applications developers have to spend a significant amount of hours dealing with messaging handling and background processing on their own. With IronMQ and IronWorker, we are offloading the challenges of maintaining what ends up becoming pretty complex systems. The funding received will help us to continue expanding our cloud application services for developers that are easy-to-use, durable and deliver ironclad value,” said Chad Arimura, CEO and Co-Founder, Iron.io.

Founded in 2010 by Chad Arimura and Travis Reeder, Iron.io is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company is backed by many leading cloud investors. Available on multiple platforms and clouds, the products eliminate the need to worry about managing and scaling infrastructure, letting developers focus on building great apps.

Anderson, Founder, Baseline Ventures, said, “Application infrastructure delivered through a cloud service is an important development in the broad adoption of cloud computing. Any developer creating applications in the cloud needs reliable queues and Iron.io makes it really easy to exchange data and execute tasks in a durable, agile and adaptive way.”

Iron.io delivers two critical, high performance core queuing services built specifically for cloud applications. Cloud applications today need to exchange large volumes of data between internal components as well as with other applications, sites and services. Both the apps developed by the company are ready-to-use and ready-to-scale with simple connections to an API (Application Programming Interface) endpoints or inclusion of a few lines of code.