• Robin.io

  Participated · Series C · Jun 2021

  Robin.io provides a fully automated, hyper-converged cloud-native platform for application and data management that enables enterprises and 5G service providers to deliver complex application pipelines as a service. Built on industry-standard Kubernetes, Robin.io lets developers and platform engineers deploy and manage data- and network-centric applications—including big data, NoSQL and 5G RAN, Core and MEC—independent of underlying infrastructure. Its three core products are Robin Cloud Native Platform (Robin CNP) for zero-touch deployment and operational automation, Robin Multi Data Center Automation Platform (Robin MDCAP) for automated healing and scaling and service delivery, and Robin Cloud Native Storage (Robin CNS) which offers application-aware storage with multiple petabytes under production deployment. The company cites strong commercial traction: bookings growth surpassed 400% quarter‑over‑quarter (comparing the first two quarters of the fiscal year) and 681% year‑over‑year for the quarter, alongside 32 new partnerships and 57% team growth across four countries over the past year. The Series C increased total capital raised to $86M. With rising bookings and new partnerships, Robin.io is positioned to expand deployments with service providers and enterprise customers globally. Robin Systems develops ROBIN, a hyper-converged Kubernetes platform that simplifies deployment and lifecycle management for big data, database and AI/ML applications. ROBIN embeds application lifecycle management natively into compute, storage, and network infrastructure to enable one-click functions and a self-service app-store experience, shortening tasks from hours or weeks to minutes. The platform supports on-premises and public cloud deployments and enables rapid deployment, performance testing, scaling, migration, and recreation of entire application environments across data centers and clouds. The company plans to use the Series B proceeds to promote its Hyper-converged Kubernetes platform and further simplify application deployment and lifecycle management for DevOps and IT. Founded in 2013 and led by CEO Premal Buch, Robin Systems is based in San Jose, California. The company has raised more than $27m in venture funding. Robin Systems offers a platform-agnostic service that combines containerization and storage virtualization on top of SSDs to deliver high-performance operating infrastructure for Spark, Hadoop and modern NoSQL databases. The company says it uses more than a dozen patent-pending innovations and an intelligent host-side data acceleration layer that leverages Flash and NVMe to accelerate I/O. Robin reports roughly 3x faster data access and has customers seeing query speedups of about 3x along with dramatically increased data ingestion rates. It has also built a virtualized "data lake" service to power its stack. The business announced a leadership hire of Premal Buch as CEO and intends to use new funding to scale engineering and sales. To date the company has raised $22 million in total financing.

• Granular

  Participated · Series B · Jul 2015

  Granular provides farm management software and analytics that help large, professionally managed farms manage daily field tasks, budgeting, and financial work. The platform integrates with existing hardware, including tractors, drones, and scales, to collect data from the field and offers a mobile app for real-time work schedules, task lists, and mapping to track workers and task completion. In the office, Granular’s analytics dashboard helps farmers understand the profitability of each field and each crop rather than only total-farm profitability. Since launching its product in March of last year, the company has signed up several dozen large U.S. farms spanning nearly 1 million acres, including customers producing corn for Maker's Mark and ingredients for Chipotle. The founder has said the company aims to have the "Farming 500"—the biggest and best farms in the country—on its system by next year. Granular recently raised $18.7 million in new funding. Granular (formerly Solum) provides a cloud software and analytics platform for farmers covering planning, operations, marketing and finance. The platform captures production and financial data from each cropping cycle and uses advanced analytics to suggest financial, operational and agronomic optimizations. The solution was in stealth development in 2013 and is beta testing on several farms in the Midwest. The company raised $4.2M and sold its soil science business to Monsanto Company. Granular intends to use the proceeds to expand its engineering, sales and customer support teams across the United States. The company is led by CEO Sid Gorham and is based in San Francisco, CA.

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