Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm established in 1998 that focuses on investing in early-stage companies across a diverse range of sectors. The firm targets technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in areas such as advertising and media, healthcare, education, financial services, and retail. It engages in various investment stages, including seed, early-stage, later-stage, and expansion-stage financing. Lightspeed specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies while also exploring opportunities in consumer, enterprise, cleantech, and other markets. The firm is known for its strategic investments in innovative sectors, including big data, bitcoin, mobile technology, and software solutions.

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Saqib Awan

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Shelley Chu

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Dev Khare

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Venture Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Christopher Schaepe

Co-Founder

Shan Shan

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Adam Smith

Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Rahul Taneja

Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Connor Love

Partner

Peter Nieh

Partner and Co-Founder

John Thompson

Venture Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

Past deals in Storage Services

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2024
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

CommandK

Seed Round in 2023
CommandK provides companies with the infrastructure to protect their sensitive data.

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2022
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Grafana Labs

Series C in 2021
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Grafana Labs

Series B in 2020
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Grafana Labs

Series A in 2019
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

M3O

Seed Round in 2019
M3O is a community-led cloud platform that provides app deployment, cloud storage, and a postgres database. They offer serverless lambda functions, event stream processing, and user account management. It supports multiple regions and provides a custom HTTPS URL. To generate a new access token, go to the API Tokens page. They can specify which APIs the token can call, or they can leave the scopes blank to create a token that can call all APIs.

Datrium

Series D in 2018
Datrium, Inc. develops and manufactures server flash storage systems, focusing on simplifying the multi-cloud data lifecycle for enterprises. The company's flagship product, the Datrium DVX system, integrates hyperconverged infrastructure with advanced data management capabilities, including built-in cloud backup and disaster recovery orchestration. Datrium also offers a range of products such as Data Cloud for data management, Blanket Encryption for secure private cloud storage, and DVX Rackscale systems which allow for flexible configurations with third-party compute nodes. The company's solutions enhance performance and security while facilitating administration of hybrid cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Datrium operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc. as of July 2020.

Elastifile

Series C in 2017
Elastifile is redefining the way data is stored and managed in the cloud and spanning hybrid clouds. Powered by an elastically scalable, enterprise-grade, distributed file system with integrated object tiering, Elastifile’s cross-cloud data fabric delivers high performance, unified access to global data. By freeing data from traditional storage silos, Elastifile enables frictionless movement of applications to the cloud, between clouds, and across hybrid environments. This allows enterprises to seamlessly leverage cloud infrastructure and services to enhance and accelerate a broad range of data-driven workflows, including: analytics, DevOps, high-performance computing, and many more.

Avere Systems

Series E in 2017
Avere Systems, Inc. specializes in cloud file storage infrastructure, providing solutions that enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of data storage for enterprises. The company offers a range of products, including Virtual FXT Edge filers, CloudFusion, and FXT Edge Filers, which optimize network-attached storage (NAS) and facilitate cloud integration. Avere's storage management software, such as FlashMove and FlashMirror, assists with data migration and protection, while their cloud enablement solutions address various storage needs, including private object storage and NAS optimization. With a commitment to transforming the economics of data storage, Avere empowers organizations across diverse industries, including government, finance, media, life sciences, and energy, to manage their data with greater flexibility and security. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Avere Systems operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Azure and maintains data centers worldwide.

Datrium

Series C in 2016
Datrium, Inc. develops and manufactures server flash storage systems, focusing on simplifying the multi-cloud data lifecycle for enterprises. The company's flagship product, the Datrium DVX system, integrates hyperconverged infrastructure with advanced data management capabilities, including built-in cloud backup and disaster recovery orchestration. Datrium also offers a range of products such as Data Cloud for data management, Blanket Encryption for secure private cloud storage, and DVX Rackscale systems which allow for flexible configurations with third-party compute nodes. The company's solutions enhance performance and security while facilitating administration of hybrid cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Datrium operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc. as of July 2020.

FangCloud

Series A in 2016
FangCloud Technology specializes in providing cloud-based enterprise file management services. The company's platform enables secure and convenient access, sharing, and collaboration on corporate files, facilitating seamless connections between employers, employees, and data. Key features include large file storage, multi-level user access control, and robust data security measures. By focusing on these aspects, FangCloud aims to help enterprises maximize the value of their core digital assets. The founding team has prior experience with a leading enterprise cloud storage provider, underscoring their commitment to delivering professional file management solutions.

Alooma

Series A in 2016
Alooma Ltd. is a data platform provider that enables users to build and manage data pipelines efficiently. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in California, the company allows data teams to integrate various data sources into a centralized data warehouse in real-time, primarily facilitating migration to Google Cloud services. Alooma supports numerous popular data sources and features a fault-tolerant, distributed architecture, providing users with visibility into their data pipelines, including monitoring of throughput, latency, and error rates. The platform also offers web and email notifications to alert users of any issues within their data pipelines, enhancing the overall data management and migration experience. As of March 2019, Alooma operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC.

Elastifile

Series B in 2016
Elastifile is redefining the way data is stored and managed in the cloud and spanning hybrid clouds. Powered by an elastically scalable, enterprise-grade, distributed file system with integrated object tiering, Elastifile’s cross-cloud data fabric delivers high performance, unified access to global data. By freeing data from traditional storage silos, Elastifile enables frictionless movement of applications to the cloud, between clouds, and across hybrid environments. This allows enterprises to seamlessly leverage cloud infrastructure and services to enhance and accelerate a broad range of data-driven workflows, including: analytics, DevOps, high-performance computing, and many more.

Datos IO

Series A in 2015
Datos IO is a developer of a cloud-scale, application-centric data management platform that simplifies data management across private, hybrid, and public cloud environments. The company's flagship product, RecoverX, offers scalable versioning and reliable recovery solutions to safeguard next-generation applications and distributed databases. By enabling organizations to protect, mobilize, and monetize their application data effectively, Datos IO addresses the complexities associated with hybrid cloud infrastructures. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has received recognition from notable industry leaders, including being featured in Gartner's 2016 Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies and receiving the 2016 Product of the Year award from Storage Magazine. Datos IO is supported by notable venture capital firms, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and True Ventures.

Tintri

Series F in 2015
Tintri is an American information technology company that specializes in providing an enterprise cloud platform designed to integrate public cloud capabilities within private data centers. The platform combines cloud management software, web services, and all-flash storage systems, enabling organizations and cloud service providers to effectively manage enterprise and cloud-native applications. Tintri's architecture allows customers to guarantee application performance, automate IT tasks through Open APIs, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues. This flexibility and scalability make it a trusted choice for leading enterprises and cloud service providers, including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, and United Healthcare, as they seek to modernize their data center operations.

Plexistor

Series A in 2014
Plexistor Ltd. specializes in Software Defined Memory (SDM), a technology that combines memory and storage to deliver high-speed data processing for in-memory applications. Founded in 2013 and based in Herzliya, Israel, with an additional office in Palo Alto, California, Plexistor's SDM platform enhances both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructures. It supports a variety of applications, including relational databases, NoSQL, and Big Data analytics, by providing persistent high-capacity storage that operates at near-memory speeds. This innovation addresses the limitations of traditional memory technologies, such as low capacity and volatility, allowing enterprises to efficiently manage large data sets and respond quickly to customer needs. Plexistor operates as a subsidiary of NetApp, Inc. since June 2017.

PernixData

Series C in 2014
PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company’s flagship product, PernixData FVP software, virtualizes server side flash and RAM to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost- effective manner. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by Poojan Kumar, a co-founder of Oracle Exadata, and Satyam Vaghani, VMware’s Storage CTO, creator of VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), and architect of several storage-related innovations at VMware over the last decade. PernixData is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and industry luminaries from enterprise software.

Alooma

Seed Round in 2014
Alooma Ltd. is a data platform provider that enables users to build and manage data pipelines efficiently. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in California, the company allows data teams to integrate various data sources into a centralized data warehouse in real-time, primarily facilitating migration to Google Cloud services. Alooma supports numerous popular data sources and features a fault-tolerant, distributed architecture, providing users with visibility into their data pipelines, including monitoring of throughput, latency, and error rates. The platform also offers web and email notifications to alert users of any issues within their data pipelines, enhancing the overall data management and migration experience. As of March 2019, Alooma operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC.

Pivot3

Series E in 2014
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

Avere Systems

Series D in 2014
Avere Systems, Inc. specializes in cloud file storage infrastructure, providing solutions that enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of data storage for enterprises. The company offers a range of products, including Virtual FXT Edge filers, CloudFusion, and FXT Edge Filers, which optimize network-attached storage (NAS) and facilitate cloud integration. Avere's storage management software, such as FlashMove and FlashMirror, assists with data migration and protection, while their cloud enablement solutions address various storage needs, including private object storage and NAS optimization. With a commitment to transforming the economics of data storage, Avere empowers organizations across diverse industries, including government, finance, media, life sciences, and energy, to manage their data with greater flexibility and security. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Avere Systems operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Azure and maintains data centers worldwide.

Tintri

Series E in 2014
Tintri is an American information technology company that specializes in providing an enterprise cloud platform designed to integrate public cloud capabilities within private data centers. The platform combines cloud management software, web services, and all-flash storage systems, enabling organizations and cloud service providers to effectively manage enterprise and cloud-native applications. Tintri's architecture allows customers to guarantee application performance, automate IT tasks through Open APIs, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues. This flexibility and scalability make it a trusted choice for leading enterprises and cloud service providers, including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, and United Healthcare, as they seek to modernize their data center operations.

Primary Data

Series B in 2014
Primary Data, founded in 2013 and based in Sandy, Utah, specializes in intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management, facilitating seamless integration between on-premises IT infrastructure and cloud environments. The company's flagship platform, DataSphere, utilizes metadata management and machine learning to optimize data movement within a global namespace. It enables organizations managing large data volumes to efficiently handle billions of files, automate data migration processes, and improve cloud integration while enhancing network-attached storage (NAS) performance. By ensuring that the right data is accessible to the right applications at the right time, Primary Data helps enterprises maximize the value of their infrastructure investments.

Elastifile

Series A in 2014
Elastifile is redefining the way data is stored and managed in the cloud and spanning hybrid clouds. Powered by an elastically scalable, enterprise-grade, distributed file system with integrated object tiering, Elastifile’s cross-cloud data fabric delivers high performance, unified access to global data. By freeing data from traditional storage silos, Elastifile enables frictionless movement of applications to the cloud, between clouds, and across hybrid environments. This allows enterprises to seamlessly leverage cloud infrastructure and services to enhance and accelerate a broad range of data-driven workflows, including: analytics, DevOps, high-performance computing, and many more.

Nutanix

Series D in 2014
Nutanix, Inc. is a cloud software company that develops an enterprise cloud platform, enabling organizations to run applications and manage data across diverse environments. The Nutanix Cloud Platform facilitates the creation of hybrid multicloud infrastructures, providing a consistent operating model that integrates core data centers, edge computing, and public clouds. Key offerings include Acropolis, which combines virtualization, storage, and networking services; Nutanix Prism, a management and analytics tool; and Nutanix Calm, which automates application lifecycle management. Additionally, the company provides solutions such as Nutanix Files for software-defined storage, Nutanix Flow for application security, and Xi Frame for delivering virtual desktops. Nutanix serves a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and education, and operates under a subscription-based business model. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix continues to innovate in the cloud space, helping organizations optimize their IT operations and enhance efficiency.

Infinio

Series B in 2013
Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners.

Primary Data

Series B in 2013
Primary Data, founded in 2013 and based in Sandy, Utah, specializes in intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management, facilitating seamless integration between on-premises IT infrastructure and cloud environments. The company's flagship platform, DataSphere, utilizes metadata management and machine learning to optimize data movement within a global namespace. It enables organizations managing large data volumes to efficiently handle billions of files, automate data migration processes, and improve cloud integration while enhancing network-attached storage (NAS) performance. By ensuring that the right data is accessible to the right applications at the right time, Primary Data helps enterprises maximize the value of their infrastructure investments.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2013
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

PernixData

Series B in 2013
PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company’s flagship product, PernixData FVP software, virtualizes server side flash and RAM to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost- effective manner. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by Poojan Kumar, a co-founder of Oracle Exadata, and Satyam Vaghani, VMware’s Storage CTO, creator of VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), and architect of several storage-related innovations at VMware over the last decade. PernixData is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and industry luminaries from enterprise software.

Nimble Storage

Series E in 2012
Nimble Storage, Inc. specializes in flash storage solutions, providing a range of products that include all-flash arrays, adaptive flash arrays, and multi-cloud storage services. The company's offerings are designed to enhance performance and simplify operations for various business applications, including databases, virtual servers, and data analytics. Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture combines flash with high-capacity drives, enabling high performance at an affordable cost while improving disaster recovery and backup processes. Their predictive cloud platform, InfoSight, incorporates predictive analytics to optimize storage management across on-premises data centers and cloud environments. Nimble Cloud Volumes allow customers to run applications in leading cloud services like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company distributes its products through a network of value-added resellers and integrators, serving diverse sectors including healthcare, finance, education, and technology. Founded in 2007 and based in San Jose, California, Nimble Storage operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

Nutanix

Series C in 2012
Nutanix, Inc. is a cloud software company that develops an enterprise cloud platform, enabling organizations to run applications and manage data across diverse environments. The Nutanix Cloud Platform facilitates the creation of hybrid multicloud infrastructures, providing a consistent operating model that integrates core data centers, edge computing, and public clouds. Key offerings include Acropolis, which combines virtualization, storage, and networking services; Nutanix Prism, a management and analytics tool; and Nutanix Calm, which automates application lifecycle management. Additionally, the company provides solutions such as Nutanix Files for software-defined storage, Nutanix Flow for application security, and Xi Frame for delivering virtual desktops. Nutanix serves a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and education, and operates under a subscription-based business model. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix continues to innovate in the cloud space, helping organizations optimize their IT operations and enhance efficiency.

Tintri

Series D in 2012
Tintri is an American information technology company that specializes in providing an enterprise cloud platform designed to integrate public cloud capabilities within private data centers. The platform combines cloud management software, web services, and all-flash storage systems, enabling organizations and cloud service providers to effectively manage enterprise and cloud-native applications. Tintri's architecture allows customers to guarantee application performance, automate IT tasks through Open APIs, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues. This flexibility and scalability make it a trusted choice for leading enterprises and cloud service providers, including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, and United Healthcare, as they seek to modernize their data center operations.

Avere Systems

Series C in 2012
Avere Systems, Inc. specializes in cloud file storage infrastructure, providing solutions that enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of data storage for enterprises. The company offers a range of products, including Virtual FXT Edge filers, CloudFusion, and FXT Edge Filers, which optimize network-attached storage (NAS) and facilitate cloud integration. Avere's storage management software, such as FlashMove and FlashMirror, assists with data migration and protection, while their cloud enablement solutions address various storage needs, including private object storage and NAS optimization. With a commitment to transforming the economics of data storage, Avere empowers organizations across diverse industries, including government, finance, media, life sciences, and energy, to manage their data with greater flexibility and security. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Avere Systems operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Azure and maintains data centers worldwide.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2012
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

Infinio

Seed Round in 2012
Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners.

PernixData

Series A in 2012
PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company’s flagship product, PernixData FVP software, virtualizes server side flash and RAM to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost- effective manner. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by Poojan Kumar, a co-founder of Oracle Exadata, and Satyam Vaghani, VMware’s Storage CTO, creator of VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), and architect of several storage-related innovations at VMware over the last decade. PernixData is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and industry luminaries from enterprise software.

XtremIO

Series B in 2011
XtremIO, a Cupertino, CA- and Herzelyia, Israel-based developer of next generation storage solutions based on Solid State technology. XtremIO revolutionizes IT infrastructure with its all-flash, scale-out, high-availability enterprise storage array. Deployed in the data center, XtremIO’s all-flash arrays dramatically improve performance, accelerate applications, and support higher workloads at a competitive price to traditional disk arrays. Using XtremIO lowers the total cost of ownership for server as well as storage infrastructure, reduces power consumption and physical space requirements, simplifies provisioning, and eliminates complex tuning procedures for a wide range of use cases including virtual server and virtual desktop infrastructure, database consolidation, analytics and business intelligence. Founded in 2009 and based in San Jose, CA, XtremIO is backed by Battery Ventures, Giza Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Nutanix

Series B in 2011
Nutanix, Inc. is a cloud software company that develops an enterprise cloud platform, enabling organizations to run applications and manage data across diverse environments. The Nutanix Cloud Platform facilitates the creation of hybrid multicloud infrastructures, providing a consistent operating model that integrates core data centers, edge computing, and public clouds. Key offerings include Acropolis, which combines virtualization, storage, and networking services; Nutanix Prism, a management and analytics tool; and Nutanix Calm, which automates application lifecycle management. Additionally, the company provides solutions such as Nutanix Files for software-defined storage, Nutanix Flow for application security, and Xi Frame for delivering virtual desktops. Nutanix serves a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and education, and operates under a subscription-based business model. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix continues to innovate in the cloud space, helping organizations optimize their IT operations and enhance efficiency.

Nimble Storage

Series D in 2011
Nimble Storage, Inc. specializes in flash storage solutions, providing a range of products that include all-flash arrays, adaptive flash arrays, and multi-cloud storage services. The company's offerings are designed to enhance performance and simplify operations for various business applications, including databases, virtual servers, and data analytics. Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture combines flash with high-capacity drives, enabling high performance at an affordable cost while improving disaster recovery and backup processes. Their predictive cloud platform, InfoSight, incorporates predictive analytics to optimize storage management across on-premises data centers and cloud environments. Nimble Cloud Volumes allow customers to run applications in leading cloud services like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company distributes its products through a network of value-added resellers and integrators, serving diverse sectors including healthcare, finance, education, and technology. Founded in 2007 and based in San Jose, California, Nimble Storage operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

Tintri

Series C in 2011
Tintri is an American information technology company that specializes in providing an enterprise cloud platform designed to integrate public cloud capabilities within private data centers. The platform combines cloud management software, web services, and all-flash storage systems, enabling organizations and cloud service providers to effectively manage enterprise and cloud-native applications. Tintri's architecture allows customers to guarantee application performance, automate IT tasks through Open APIs, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues. This flexibility and scalability make it a trusted choice for leading enterprises and cloud service providers, including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, and United Healthcare, as they seek to modernize their data center operations.

Nutanix

Series A in 2011
Nutanix, Inc. is a cloud software company that develops an enterprise cloud platform, enabling organizations to run applications and manage data across diverse environments. The Nutanix Cloud Platform facilitates the creation of hybrid multicloud infrastructures, providing a consistent operating model that integrates core data centers, edge computing, and public clouds. Key offerings include Acropolis, which combines virtualization, storage, and networking services; Nutanix Prism, a management and analytics tool; and Nutanix Calm, which automates application lifecycle management. Additionally, the company provides solutions such as Nutanix Files for software-defined storage, Nutanix Flow for application security, and Xi Frame for delivering virtual desktops. Nutanix serves a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and education, and operates under a subscription-based business model. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix continues to innovate in the cloud space, helping organizations optimize their IT operations and enhance efficiency.

IO Turbine

Venture Round in 2011
IO Turbine, Inc. is an early-stage company based in San Jose, California, focused on developing innovative data storage software. The company aims to resolve input/output bottleneck issues by implementing Flash technology directly within VMware server environments. Through its software solution, IO Turbine enhances data processing efficiency, making it a valuable resource for organizations looking to optimize their storage systems and improve overall performance.

Tintri

Series B in 2011
Tintri is an American information technology company that specializes in providing an enterprise cloud platform designed to integrate public cloud capabilities within private data centers. The platform combines cloud management software, web services, and all-flash storage systems, enabling organizations and cloud service providers to effectively manage enterprise and cloud-native applications. Tintri's architecture allows customers to guarantee application performance, automate IT tasks through Open APIs, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues. This flexibility and scalability make it a trusted choice for leading enterprises and cloud service providers, including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, and United Healthcare, as they seek to modernize their data center operations.

Cirtas Systems

Series B in 2011
Cirtas solves the challenges associated with storing data in the cloud, making cloud storage work just like on-site enterprise storage arrays. Deployed in the data center, Cirtas Bluejet Cloud Storage Controllers simplify storage management and vastly reduce storage TCO for medium to large enterprises. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California and is backed by NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Amazon.

Nimble Storage

Series C in 2010
Nimble Storage, Inc. specializes in flash storage solutions, providing a range of products that include all-flash arrays, adaptive flash arrays, and multi-cloud storage services. The company's offerings are designed to enhance performance and simplify operations for various business applications, including databases, virtual servers, and data analytics. Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture combines flash with high-capacity drives, enabling high performance at an affordable cost while improving disaster recovery and backup processes. Their predictive cloud platform, InfoSight, incorporates predictive analytics to optimize storage management across on-premises data centers and cloud environments. Nimble Cloud Volumes allow customers to run applications in leading cloud services like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company distributes its products through a network of value-added resellers and integrators, serving diverse sectors including healthcare, finance, education, and technology. Founded in 2007 and based in San Jose, California, Nimble Storage operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

Cirtas Systems

Series A in 2010
Cirtas solves the challenges associated with storing data in the cloud, making cloud storage work just like on-site enterprise storage arrays. Deployed in the data center, Cirtas Bluejet Cloud Storage Controllers simplify storage management and vastly reduce storage TCO for medium to large enterprises. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California and is backed by NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Amazon.

Fusion-io

Series C in 2010
Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. The Fusion ioMemory platform and software defined storage solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy.

Pivot3

Series D in 2010
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

Pliant Technology

Venture Round in 2010
Pliant Technology is developing a new class of solid state drive storage devices for the enterprise computing market: Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs). EFDs integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise information systems, and are designed to dramatically improve the performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and TCO of enterprise data center storage systems. Pliant EFDs are ideal for a range of data I/O (input/output) intensive enterprise applications, such as trading floors, financial transactions, VOD, airline reservation systems, e-commerce, and Web 2.0 applications. Pliant’s EFD is a disruptive solution that offers breakthrough performance and reliability improvements over today’s highest performing hard drive and consumer solid state storage devices (SSD). EFDs enable enterprise data centers to do “much more for less” – achieve more performance and reliability with less cost, energy and space. One EFD can replace many (100+) enterprise HDDs (10K/15K RPM) for performance, and by combining EFDs with high capacity HDDs, today’s storage racks can be reduced to storage shelves saving power (up to 80%), space and money. Based on an advanced software architecture and proprietary ASIC design, Pliant’s EFD changes the storage system paradigm while meeting growing “Green IT” energy efficiency. Pliant was established by a team of executives and engineers from Fujitsu, Maxtor and Seagate with an unparalleled track record of success in the data storage industry.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2009
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

Unity Semiconductor

Series C in 2009
Unity Semiconductor is a developer and manufacturer of memory storage products.

Fusion-io

Series B in 2009
Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. The Fusion ioMemory platform and software defined storage solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy.

Pliant Technology

Series C in 2009
Pliant Technology is developing a new class of solid state drive storage devices for the enterprise computing market: Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs). EFDs integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise information systems, and are designed to dramatically improve the performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and TCO of enterprise data center storage systems. Pliant EFDs are ideal for a range of data I/O (input/output) intensive enterprise applications, such as trading floors, financial transactions, VOD, airline reservation systems, e-commerce, and Web 2.0 applications. Pliant’s EFD is a disruptive solution that offers breakthrough performance and reliability improvements over today’s highest performing hard drive and consumer solid state storage devices (SSD). EFDs enable enterprise data centers to do “much more for less” – achieve more performance and reliability with less cost, energy and space. One EFD can replace many (100+) enterprise HDDs (10K/15K RPM) for performance, and by combining EFDs with high capacity HDDs, today’s storage racks can be reduced to storage shelves saving power (up to 80%), space and money. Based on an advanced software architecture and proprietary ASIC design, Pliant’s EFD changes the storage system paradigm while meeting growing “Green IT” energy efficiency. Pliant was established by a team of executives and engineers from Fujitsu, Maxtor and Seagate with an unparalleled track record of success in the data storage industry.

Pivot3

Series C in 2008
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2007
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

NeoScale Systems

Series F in 2007
As of December 11, 2007, NeoScale Systems, Inc. was acquired by Ncipher plc. NeoScale Systems, Inc. provides enterprise storage security solutions. Its solutions enable organizations to address security risks associated with offsite storage, tape media access, business continuity, consolidation, and privacy compliance. The company's products include CryptoStor Tape, a tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts, and digitally signs data; CryptoStor FC Disk, an enterprise-class storage security appliance, which provides wire-speed encryption, centralized policy management, storage firewall access control, and fabric transparent operation for storage transport and media privacy; and CryptoStor KeyVault, an automated and open enterprise-class appliance for data-at-rest encryption key management. NeoScale Systems serves companies in various sectors, including financial services, healthcare / health services, manufacturing, retail / wholesale, entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, domestic and foreign government, and small-medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Milpitas, California.

MonoSphere

Series B in 2006
MonoSphere is the creator of Storage Horizon storage capacity management software. Quest has also hired a substantial number of the former MonoSphere employees. The high quality of MonoSphere's team and technology, as well as the fit of its products within Quest's management offerings, were key factors in the decision to proceed with this acquisition.

MonoSphere

Venture Round in 2005
MonoSphere is the creator of Storage Horizon storage capacity management software. Quest has also hired a substantial number of the former MonoSphere employees. The high quality of MonoSphere's team and technology, as well as the fit of its products within Quest's management offerings, were key factors in the decision to proceed with this acquisition.

NeoScale Systems

Series D in 2005
As of December 11, 2007, NeoScale Systems, Inc. was acquired by Ncipher plc. NeoScale Systems, Inc. provides enterprise storage security solutions. Its solutions enable organizations to address security risks associated with offsite storage, tape media access, business continuity, consolidation, and privacy compliance. The company's products include CryptoStor Tape, a tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts, and digitally signs data; CryptoStor FC Disk, an enterprise-class storage security appliance, which provides wire-speed encryption, centralized policy management, storage firewall access control, and fabric transparent operation for storage transport and media privacy; and CryptoStor KeyVault, an automated and open enterprise-class appliance for data-at-rest encryption key management. NeoScale Systems serves companies in various sectors, including financial services, healthcare / health services, manufacturing, retail / wholesale, entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, domestic and foreign government, and small-medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Milpitas, California.

Pivot3

Series B in 2005
Pivot3 is an IT company focused on simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. This approach aims to reduce costs, minimize risks, and streamline complexity for enterprises. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, which enhance resource utilization and ensure high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technology has been deployed in over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays across 53 countries, benefiting a wide range of industries, including energy, aerospace, logistics, and retail. Its solutions help organizations achieve lower total ownership costs, maintain uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. By automating the management of on-premise, edge, and cloud environments, Pivot3 enables scalable performance while easing overall system management.

MonoSphere

Series C in 2003
MonoSphere is the creator of Storage Horizon storage capacity management software. Quest has also hired a substantial number of the former MonoSphere employees. The high quality of MonoSphere's team and technology, as well as the fit of its products within Quest's management offerings, were key factors in the decision to proceed with this acquisition.

NeoScale Systems

Series A in 2002
As of December 11, 2007, NeoScale Systems, Inc. was acquired by Ncipher plc. NeoScale Systems, Inc. provides enterprise storage security solutions. Its solutions enable organizations to address security risks associated with offsite storage, tape media access, business continuity, consolidation, and privacy compliance. The company's products include CryptoStor Tape, a tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts, and digitally signs data; CryptoStor FC Disk, an enterprise-class storage security appliance, which provides wire-speed encryption, centralized policy management, storage firewall access control, and fabric transparent operation for storage transport and media privacy; and CryptoStor KeyVault, an automated and open enterprise-class appliance for data-at-rest encryption key management. NeoScale Systems serves companies in various sectors, including financial services, healthcare / health services, manufacturing, retail / wholesale, entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, domestic and foreign government, and small-medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Milpitas, California.

Storability Software

Series B in 2001
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to simplify and centralize the management of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers customers to better understand, manage, and optimize their storage investments. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, clients can achieve increased asset utilization, improved management efficiency, enhanced quality of service, and greater availability of their storage resources.

Storability Software

Series A in 2000
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to simplify and centralize the management of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers customers to better understand, manage, and optimize their storage investments. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, clients can achieve increased asset utilization, improved management efficiency, enhanced quality of service, and greater availability of their storage resources.
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