• Corephotonics

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2017

  Corephotonics develops dual-camera technologies for smartphones that combine two image sensors to improve image quality, enable optical stills zoom up to 3x and video zoom up to 8x, perform well in low light, and create bokeh effects. The company plans to use the new funding to further develop its smartphone cameras and expand product penetration. It also aims to grow into the automotive, drone, surveillance, and action camera markets. Founded in 2012 and based in Tel Aviv, Corephotonics has about 50 employees and intends to recruit dozens more engineers for its headquarters and support/integration engineering teams in China and South Korea. Financially, the company has raised more than $50M to date, including the recent $15M round.

• Tegile Systems

  Participated · Equity · May 2015

  Tegile Systems builds flash-driven enterprise storage arrays that balance performance, capacity, features and price for virtualization, file services and database applications. Its core products include all‑flash and hybrid arrays powered by the company’s patented IntelliFlash software architecture and multi‑tier flash technology, including IntelliFlash HD and the IntelliFlash Cloud Platform that leverages NVMe SSDs. Tegile’s solutions provide inline deduplication and compression, NAS and SAN connectivity, snapshots, remote replication and VM-aware features to accelerate business-critical applications and consolidate mixed workloads. The company plans to use the new funding to invest in technology development, product innovation and to expand worldwide market reach. Tegile reports strong growth, citing an all‑flash revenue growth rate of 110% year‑over‑year and new customers such as CMG Financial, United Center and AT&T. The company also points to market tailwinds, referencing Gartner’s projection that the solid state array market will reach $10.4 billion by 2020. Tegile Systems provides all-flash and hybrid storage arrays targeted at databases, virtualized servers and virtual desktop environments. Led by CEO Rohit Kshetrapal, the company says its solutions aim to accelerate applications, reduce storage footprint and cut operational costs. Since 2012, Tegile has deployed more than 1,500 systems within mid-sized and large enterprise environments and currently has about 300 employees. It closed a $70M funding round and has now raised $117.5M in total. Backers on the round included new investors Capricorn Investment Group, Cross Creek Advisors and Pine River Capital Management alongside existing investors August Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Western Digital and SanDisk. Tegile intends to use the proceeds for global expansion, to double headcount in the next 18 months, scale up operations and further expand its reseller channel. Tegile Systems, led by CEO Rohit Kshetrapal, develops hybrid storage arrays (the Zebi line) that offer both NAS and SAN connectivity. Its arrays use enterprise-class hard drives and SSDs supplied by HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital. The company serves more than 300 production customers addressing server virtualization, virtual desktop integration and database integration. Tegile plans to use new funding to strengthen sales and customer support across North American and European channels. It also intends to accelerate new product and technology development to expand its offerings. The company recently closed a significant growth financing to support these initiatives.

• Ravello Systems

  Led · Equity · Jan 2015

  Ravello Systems provides a nested-virtualization cloud service that lets enterprises spin up complex application environments on-demand, including VMware workloads, Android emulators, and OpenStack labs on AWS and Google Cloud. The company was founded in 2011 by the team that created the KVM hypervisor and took its service into public beta in February 2013, with a global launch in August 2013. Ravello says its technology reduces time to provision application environments from months to minutes and eliminates capacity constraints. Its service has been adopted by a range of customers from Fortune 500 companies to mid-size and smaller firms. With the new funding, Ravello plans to significantly expand its marketing and sales operations in the U.S. and internationally. The company has raised $54 million in total capital to date. Ravello Systems offers an "application hypervisor" that packages applications into reusable "capsules" containing all VM requirements for running in a cloud environment. The service automates the packaging and deployment process to public clouds such as Amazon Web Services. Capsules can consolidate multiple virtual machines into fewer instances, which can lower the cost of running tests compared with launching each VM separately on a provider like AWS. Developers upload VMs and use a CAD‑like environment to draw the application topology and set parameters before deployment. Capsules are reusable blueprints deployable to any public cloud, intended to speed app development, simplify DevOps workflows, and let IT retain control. The company’s executives include the original creators of KVM.

• Stratoscale

  Participated · Series B · Nov 2014

  Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, Stratoscale provides a hardware-agnostic, software-only hyperconverged SDDC platform (Stratoscale Symphony) that automates distribution of physical and virtual assets and workloads in real time. Its self-optimizing software aims to deliver "rack-scale economics," enable zero-to-cloud-in-minutes deployment, and let IT scale in a pay-as-you-grow model while reducing reliance on legacy infrastructure. The solution is positioned to simplify data center management so non-experts can operate infrastructure and focus on business applications. Stratoscale has expanded its go-to-market with a PartnerFirst program and begun growth across North America and Europe. Financially, the company reported a $27 million Series C and says it has raised over $70 million in funding over the past three years. The company lists backers including Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Intel and SanDisk. Stratoscale provides a hardware-agnostic software platform that converges compute, storage and networking across the rack or data center. The platform automatically distributes all physical and virtual assets and workloads in real time. Led by co-founder and CEO Ariel Maislos, the company is based in Herzliya Pituach, Israel. Stratoscale raised $32m in a Series B round led by Intel Capital with participation from Cisco Investments, SanDisk and original investors Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. The company intends to use the funds to complete product development and build out global sales and marketing. It previously raised $10m in a Series A in October 2013. Stratoscale develops a compute stack and runtime software infrastructure designed to improve performance and efficiency in large data centers. Its software aims to help customers use all available computing resources and to unify computing and storage across the data center. The company provides building software for innovative datacenter infrastructure and focuses on scalable computing. Stratoscale was co-founded by CEO Ariel Maislos and CTO Etay Bogner. The company is actively hiring and directs readers to its website for opportunities. As of the article, it has completed a Series A financing to support its growth.

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