Rich Maloy manages Catalyst, the global incubator program for SoftLayer, an IBM Company. His mission is to transform the world through innovation and entrepreneurship, which he does by providing resources for startups including credits on SoftLayer’s platform, mentorship, and connections.

Why Softlayer?

Softlayer is a believer in the power of startups, and we’re proud to be a sponsor of this organization.

Mentorship: our team consists of experienced startup entrepreneurs and executives, with backgrounds in hardware, software, UI/UX, business development, and operations. We make ourselves available to our Catalyst members for consultations at any time.

Connections: Not only are we a global infrastructure network, we have global personal networks that we make available to our members. We have strong connections with corporations, VC’s, and other startups like you, and work to make whatever introductions we can for our members.

If you’re interested in learning more, please email Rich Maloy: rmaloy@softlayer.com or call 303.746.7931 to begin your application or get more information about potential fit for your organization's needs.

About Softlayer

SoftLayer, an IBM Company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. Products and services include bare metal and virtual servers, networking, turnkey big data solutions, private cloud solutions, bandwidth, and more.

Every offering on our platform—from servers and storage to firewalls, load balancers, and even our accounting system—is controlled by a single management system with its own API. We’ve automated the deployment and management of everything. And we extend total access and control to customers through the same API, as well as through an easy-to-use Web portal and mobile applications.