Tech Company Financing Transactions

SandForce Funding Round

On 9/14/2010, SandForce raised $25 million in Series D funding from Canaan Partners, DCM Ventures and LSI.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
9/14/2010
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$25,000,000
Round
Series D
Investors

Canaan Partners (Lead Investor) (Eric Young)

DCM Ventures (Carl Amdahl)

LSI

Storm Ventures (Ryan Floyd)

Translink Capital (Jackie Yang)

UMC Capital

Proceeds Purpose
This new funding will help us bring our next-generation products to market, expand our customer and partner support infrastructure, and accelerate our core technology development that will extend our market leadership.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Storage
Mailing Address
691 S. Milpitas Blvd. 100
Milpitas, CA 95035
USA
Email Address
Overview
SandForce, Inc., is transforming data storage by pioneering the use of commodity flash memory in enterprise and client computing applications with its innovative SSD (Solid State Drive) Processors.
Profile
SandForce LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
SandForce Company Twitter Account
Company News
SandForce News
Facebook
SandForce on Facebook
YouTube
SandForce on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Raam
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Chief Financial Officer
Duston Williams
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VP - Administration
Steven Rowe
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VP - Engineering
Kamran Malik
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VP - Marketing
Thad Omura
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VP - Operations
Bernie Sardinha
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VP - Sales
Matt Ready
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