Cash-laden backers chuck $35 MEELLLION into the clouds
Cash-laden Backers Chuck $35 MEELLLION Into The Clouds | Nasuni
August 14, 2014
Cloud storage gateway, cloudy backup bods net new funding
Venture capitalists have been tossing money into the burgeoning cloud space with a $10m funding boost to cloud storage gateway upstart Nasuni and the chucking of $25m into cloudy backup firm Druva’s burlap sack.
Nasuni’s fresh $10m funding round takes its total funding to $53m. Here’s the funding history from Crunchbase:
- Founded April 2009
- December 2009 – A-round – $8m from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners
- December 2010 – B-round – $15m from North Bridge, Sigma and Flybridge Capital Partners
- October 2012 – C-round – $20m from Sigma, North Bridge and Flybridge
- August 2014 – D-round – $10m Flybridge, North Bridge and Sigma plus a strategic investor
Who is the strategic investor? It could be an existing storage supplier or cloud service provider wanting to keep its head down.