A $2 million Series A funding round, led by the Silicon Valley-based early stage investor True Ventures and other private investors, has been closed by the next-gen enterprise IT automation provider - the Portland, Orlando-based Reductive Labs.

Reductive Labs’ ground-breaking flagship product ‘Puppet’ provides advanced solutions, whereby large-scale, rapidly-growing, transaction-driven businesses to effectively slash their IT expenses and still manage to meet the increased IT demands.

It is by way of improved automation and management of IT operations that ‘Puppet’ helps in optimizing IT operations, thereby converting a supposed ‘cost center’ into a tactical gain. Creating an audit trail, ‘Puppet’ shows brings about a new level of transparency that removes the wall of mix-up between development and operations teams.

The ‘Puppet’ structure – which Reductive Labs intends expanding with the capital raised – is being used by high-profile companies like Google, Digg, Twitter, New York Stock Exchange, Barclays Capital, Oracle, Sun, Red Hat, Harvard Law, and Stanford.

Noting the ‘Puppet’ advantage, Phil Black, True Ventures’ co-founder, said: “We are impressed with the vision, commitment and passion that the Puppet founding team exhibits as well as the growing market opportunity at hand. Reductive Labs has brought to the market a truly disruptive solution, as evidenced by its adoption within the open source community and from some of the market's leading-edge companies.”