Nexenta Raises $20 Million
Nexenta Systems, Inc. is raising $20 million to accelerate its market growth and solidify its innovation and leadership.
SoftBank Group Corp. is leading the financing round along with a strategic distribution and go-to-market agreement.
StrongBox Data Solutions Completes $27 Million Investment Round
StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc., provider of cognitive data management and archive solutions, announced that its parent company has completed a $27 million investment round which includes $20 million from the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, a $13 billion development capital investment fund, and additional funding from its controlling shareholder, Partner One Capital.
$5 Million for Trilio Data
Trilio Data, Inc., received $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Boston-based .406 Ventures.
It provides a business assurance platform for IT organizations and cloud service providers deploying application workloads in both public and private clouds.
VC Funds Invested $30 Million Into Excelero
Excelero, Inc. received a strategic investment from Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm, Incorporated.
Qualcomm becomes the third strategic player to invest in Excelero – bringing its CPU expertise to help guide Excelero’s expansion, in concert with two earlier strategic investors.
Cloudleaf secures $13 million funding to bring patented Sensor Fabric to market
IoT startups in Silicon Valley are in the news every time when they receive a financial push. This time it is Cloudleaf – a designer and developer of a location-aware sensory platform for automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and life sciences, and industrial manufacturing companies.
Infinidat Raises $95 Million Series C, Total Funding at $325 Million
INFINIDAT Ltd closed a $95 million series C financing round.
The round was led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing (PCI) with strong participation from series B leader, TPG Growth.
Leonovus Closes $1.5 Million Financing
LeoNovus Inc. closed a $1,500,000 financing by way of a non-brokered private placement for 30,000,000 units of the company at a price of CDN$0.05 per unit.
Each unit is one common share in the capital of the company and one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant is exercisable into one common share at a price of CDN$0.075 per common share for 18 months from the closing date of the offering. The TSXV granted conditional approval for this financing on September 19, 2017.
Aqua Closes $25M Funding Round for Container Security
Container security startup Aqua raised $25 million in Series B funding. Aqua CEO Dror Davidoff called it the “largest funding round to date” in the container security space, and it brings total investments in Aqua to $38.5 million.
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the latest round, with existing investors Microsoft Ventures, TLV Ventures, and Shlomo Kramer also participating. Microsoft led the Series A round in September 2016, which secured $9 million.
Nakivo Announced Q4 Promotion at VMworld Europe
Nakivo, Inc. had introduced the 4Q17 promotion: Nakivo Backup & Replication Basic edition.
The new edition is aimed at helping SMBs protect their virtualized environments and is a cost-effective Hyper-V and VMware VM backup and recovery solutions.
Priced at $99 per socket, the Basic edition includes the core set of data protection features, such as VMware and Hyper-V VM backup, flexible job scheduling and recovery point retention policies, global data deduplication, Changed Block Tracking (CBT), Resilient Change Tracking (RCT), application-aware mode, and VM recovery.
Nasuni Closes $38 Million in New Funding
Nasuni Corp. closed $38 million in growth equity funding led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (GS Growth), a platform within Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division.
The investment follows another record quarter by Nasuni for new customer acquisition, expansion bookings from existing customers, and revenue.