Coinbase, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange, is firming up an offer to acquire Koding, the cloud-based developer platform that allows coders to collaborate remotely in real time, Modern Consensus has learned. Koding’s technology is well-regarded among the San Francisco VC community, though it’s unclear how rosy its business prospects would be as a stand-alone enterprise. The company claims to have more than 1 million users worldwide. Its premise of real-time matching a person with an idea in, say, Germany with a Python coder in Sri Lanka has attracted early funding from RTP Ventures, Greycroft, Matrix and Khosla. Now, according to sources interviewed by Modern Consensus, Coinbase is in the process of…
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