Cloudian builds secure S3-compatible AI data lake platforms that offer military-grade security, scalability, and cloud integration. Its AI-ready data lake optimizes data access, supports data sovereignty requirements, and reduces costs by consolidating information into a single, cloud-like storage platform. Cloudian's geo-distributed architecture manages and protects object and file data at the edge, core, and cloud for both traditional and modern applications. The platform is proven with AI and analytics tools including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kafka, and Druid, and its solutions are available via AWS Marketplace, HPE GreenLake, Lenovo, and reseller partners worldwide. Led by CEO Michael Tso and headquartered in San Mateo, CA, the company plans to use new funding to drive product innovation and sales and marketing to meet demand for its AI data lake software. A $23M growth financing was announced in June 2024. Cloudian is a San Mateo, CA-based hybrid cloud data management firm that builds cloud-native software for S3-compatible object storage. Its software transforms standard servers, virtual machines, containers, or public cloud into pools of S3 API-compatible object storage co-located with data sources and consumers. The company highlights geo-distributed architecture to manage and protect object and file data at the edge, core, and in the cloud, along with seamless cloud integration and scalability. In January 2023 Cloudian closed $60 million in new funding, bringing total funding to $233 million. The company said the investment will accelerate its hybrid cloud platform capabilities and prepare it for its next phase of growth, and it named Bob Griswold chairman of the board. Cloudian positions its offering to simplify operations and help customers derive new value from data as organizations advance digital transformation. Cloudian focuses on on-premise storage and multi-cloud data management for organizations that need to store and manage very large data sets. Its platform is positioned as a data-management solution rather than just raw storage, aiming to keep data close to where it is created and used to reduce latency and network costs. The company has about 160 employees and serves roughly 240 enterprise customers, with strong traction in large video archives for entertainment companies and customers in healthcare, automotive and Formula One. Cloudian is beginning to address machine learning use cases by helping customers retain and manage training data from IoT sensors, cameras and medical imaging. The company plans to use new funding to expand global sales and marketing and to increase its engineering team, including investment in AI and core technology innovation. To date it has raised a total of $174 million. Cloudian provides a scalable platform that consolidates, manages and protects enterprise data through enterprise object storage systems and management solutions that bring cloud technology and economics to the data center. The company is based in San Mateo, California and is led by CEO Michael Tso. Cloudian reports an installed base of more than 200 customers. The company announced a $125M joint venture with Digital Alpha to accelerate adoption of its enterprise object storage systems. The financing package is intended to support expansion of Cloudian’s sales, marketing, engineering and customer-support organizations and to enable more flexible procurement options for customers. Cloudian is a San Mateo, CA–based provider of hybrid cloud object storage systems led by CEO and co-founder Michael Tso. The company offers Cloudian HyperStore, which enables service providers and enterprises to build scalable hybrid cloud storage solutions and manage hundreds of petabytes for use cases including backup/archive, media and entertainment, bioinformatics, and IoT. In August Cloudian made HyperStore available on AWS Marketplace so customers can purchase on‑premises storage on a metered basis and manage it alongside Amazon S3 as a single pool with one invoice. The company also has an OEM agreement with Lenovo to offer a Cloudian-based object storage appliance through Lenovo’s worldwide sales force and is integrated with Google Cloud Storage Coldline for hybrid archival storage. Cloudian intends to use the new funds to accelerate innovation, expand sales and marketing, and grow international operations. The company has raised $79M in total capital to date.

Total raised

$367M

Funding rounds

7

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jun 2024