Gridstore, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of hyper-converged all flash infrastructure, secured $19m in funding.
The round was led by Atlantic Bridge Capital with participation from previous investors Acero Capital, GGV Capital and ONSET Ventures. In conjunction with the funding, Kevin Dillon, a general partner at Atlantic Bridge, joined Gridstore’s board of directors, while Nariman Teymourian, most recently senior vice president and general manager of the Converged Systems Division HPE, and prior to that CEO of Gale Technologies, joined as new board chair.
The company will use the funds to expand its international geographic coverage, partner recruitment programs, domestic and international sales teams as well as to increase engineering and product development initiatives.
Founded in 2009 by George Symons, Chief Executive Officer, Kelly Murphy, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Rains, Chief Financial Officer, James Thomason, Chief Strategy Officer, and Phillip Lavery, Vice President of Sales, the Americas, Gridstore provides HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Its HyperConverged Appliances (HCA) include both compute and storage in a single system with the flexibility for nodes being compute and storage or storage only and can scale to 256 nodes.
The company’s HCA is ideal for infrastructure refreshes and specific Windows workloads such as VDI, SQL Server, Private Cloud, and ROBO.
Gridstore is a Microsoft Gold OEM and Gold Data Center Partner, a member of the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance and Certified in the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Program.
FinSMEs
26/01/2016