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Platform9 Funding Round

On 6/29/2017, Platform9 raised $22 million in Series C funding from Canvas Venture Fund, Hewlett Packard Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
6/29/2017
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$22,000,000
Round
Series C
Investors

Canvas Venture Fund (Lead Investor) (Gary Little)

Hewlett Packard Ventures

Menlo Ventures (Mark Siegel)

Redpoint Ventures (Scott Raney)

Proceeds Purpose
The new capital enables Platform9 to scale its global salesforce, product and marketing teams, as well as boost engineering investments as it expands its innovation agenda to deliver new capabilities for hybrid clouds.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
800 W. El Camino Real 180
Mountain View, CA 94040
USA
Email Address
Overview
Platform9 pools your servers, storage and networking into a private cloud that can be shared by teams of users. Our intelligent placement technology ensures optimal hardware utilization, enforces capacity quotas, and allows administrators to express rich policies for tiered consumption of resources.
Profile
Platform9 LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Platform9 Company Twitter Account
Company News
Platform9 News
Facebook
Platform9 on Facebook
YouTube
Platform9 on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Sirish Raghuram
  Sirish Raghuram LinkedIn Profile  Sirish Raghuram Twitter Account  Sirish Raghuram News  Sirish Raghuram on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Roopak Parikh
  Roopak Parikh LinkedIn Profile  Roopak Parikh Twitter Account  Roopak Parikh News  Roopak Parikh on Facebook
Co-Founder
Bich Le
  Bich Le LinkedIn Profile  Bich Le Twitter Account  Bich Le News  Bich Le on Facebook
VP - Engineering
Amrish Kapoor
  Amrish Kapoor LinkedIn Profile  Amrish Kapoor Twitter Account  Amrish Kapoor News  Amrish Kapoor on Facebook
VP - Finance
Celeste Ackert
  Celeste Ackert LinkedIn Profile  Celeste Ackert Twitter Account  Celeste Ackert News  Celeste Ackert on Facebook
VP - Product Management
Madhura Maskasky
  Madhura Maskasky LinkedIn Profile  Madhura Maskasky Twitter Account  Madhura Maskasky News  Madhura Maskasky on Facebook


 

 

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