Aviatrix delivers advanced cloud networking, network security and operational visibility with cloud-native simplicity and automation. The company provides a proven multi-cloud network reference architecture to design, deploy and operate a repeatable network and security architecture consistent across any public cloud. More than 550 customers worldwide leverage Aviatrix’s platform. Led by CEO Steve Mullaney, the company emphasizes enterprise-grade network and security operations for cloud environments. Aviatrix raised $200M in a Series E at a $2 billion valuation and plans to use the funds to scale its worldwide sales and support operations. Aviatrix offers a cloud network platform that delivers advanced networking, security, and operational visibility and control with cloud-like simplicity and automation. The company targets enterprises moving mission-critical applications to multiple cloud service providers and emphasizes repeatable multi-cloud network and security architectures. More than 500 customers worldwide leverage Aviatrix and its multi-cloud network reference architecture. Aviatrix also offers the industry’s multi-cloud networking certification (ACE) to support adoption. The company plans to use new growth-stage funding to scale sales, partner channels, customer support, and product development to meet rising enterprise demand. Aviatrix is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Aviatrix provides networking and security services for enterprises moving mission-critical applications from on-premises to the public cloud. Its offerings include advanced transit networking, network segmentation, next-generation firewall integration, smart SAML VPN and site-to-cloud VPN access. The company also provides cloud-to-Internet egress filtering, high-performance encryption and other enterprise networking capabilities. Aviatrix serves more than 300 multi-cloud enterprises, including Jefferies, Experian, NASA, QuickenLoans, Pfizer and Netflix. It recently raised $40M in a Series C and has $76M in total funding to date. The company plans to use the proceeds to scale sales, channel, customer support, marketing and product development, and is led by CEO Steve Mullaney with John Jendricks as COO and James Winebrenner as SVP of worldwide sales. Aviatrix offers a one-click, CLI-free hybrid cloud networking solution built for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud that uses a centralized controller and lightweight gateway software to create, delete, and manage hybrid cloud networks. The product enables scalable, secure interconnections across private data centers and public cloud regions and supports cloud-native and multi-cloud architectures. Aviatrix says customers can accelerate hybrid cloud network deployments by more than 90 percent, shorten development cycles, and reduce costs; customers include Fortune 1000 and cloud-native companies such as Hyatt, Robert Half, and GREE. The company plans to use new funding to expand operations, drive strategic partnerships, and extend the reach of its cloud networking solutions. Financially, the company announced a $15 million Series B that brings its total funding to $25 million. Aviatrix publicly cites strong customer momentum since its 2014 launch. Aviatrix builds software that enables enterprises to create hybrid clouds by easily, elastically and securely connecting to dozens of AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) and Azure VNets without buying additional networking equipment. The platform also allows employees and partners to connect directly to the cloud without traditional corporate VPNs and helps software vendors migrate on‑premise applications to the cloud and transition to single‑tenant SaaS. Current customers include large and small enterprises, and Aviatrix is an AWS partner and a Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance partner. The company was founded by Pankaj Manglik and Sherry Wei, who bring prior experience from Aruba Networks, Cisco and Huawei. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Aviatrix positions its product as a way for CloudOps to hide network complexity and build networks as dynamic and disposable as compute and storage. Management frames the offering around addressing hybrid cloud networking challenges as adoption increases.

Total raised

$340M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Series E

Latest activity

Sep 2021