Tech Company Financing Transactions

CipherMax Funding Round

CipherMax, based in Cupertino, scored $29 million from Scale Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners and Venrock.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/13/2004
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$29,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors
Proceeds Purpose
The capital raised will be used to ramp up the sales, marketing and support organizations, as well as to open an interoperability lab to meet the growing demand for the company's fabric-based intelligent storage switches and appliances.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Security
Mailing Address
3 Results Way
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
Email Address
Overview
CipherMax (FKA MaXXan Systems, Inc.) was founded in early 2000 with the new philosophy that storage management and storage protection services are best deployed within the SAN fabric for maximum cost efficiency and minimal overhead on servers and storage devices.
Profile
CipherMax LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
CipherMax Company Twitter Account
Company News
CipherMax News
Facebook
CipherMax on Facebook
YouTube
CipherMax on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Ray Kao
  Ray Kao LinkedIn Profile  Ray Kao Twitter Account  Ray Kao News  Ray Kao on Facebook
VP - Bus. Development
Yingwei Zhang
  Yingwei Zhang LinkedIn Profile  Yingwei Zhang Twitter Account  Yingwei Zhang News  Yingwei Zhang on Facebook
VP - Engineering
Steven Tan
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VP - Operations
John Jeng
  John Jeng LinkedIn Profile  John Jeng Twitter Account  John Jeng News  John Jeng on Facebook
VP - Sales
Keriyun Liu
  Keriyun Liu LinkedIn Profile  Keriyun Liu Twitter Account  Keriyun Liu News  Keriyun Liu on Facebook


 

 

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