The cloud infrastructure provider has now raised $210m in the past 18 months, and will use the Access Industries-led round to expand its engineering team.

US-based cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean closed an $83m series B round on Wednesday led by diversified conglomerate Access Industries that also included venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean supplies cloud infrastructure technology for developers to build websites and applications. More than six million cloud servers have been deployed on DigitalOcean by a total of more than 500,000 developers.

DigitalOcean is in the process of expanding the platform’s feature set, and the funding will support the hiring of…