Tech Company Financing Transactions

Gear6 Funding Round

Gear6 secured a $10 million venture capital round on 7/11/2006. Investors included InterWest Partners and U.S. Venture Partners.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
7/11/2006
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$10,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors

InterWest Partners (Lead Investor) (Khaled Nasr)

U.S. Venture Partners

Proceeds Purpose
The financing will support the market entry of Gear6 solutions, designed to address the widening gap between increasingly powerful servers and constrained, disk-based storage systems. Deployed in the data center, Gear6 products eliminate bottlenecks and deliver guaranteed performance to existing storage infrastructures.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
440 Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
Email Address
Overview
Founded in 2002 as Engineered Intelligence, the company developed high-performance computing solutions using distributed, clustered architectures, which were deployed in conjunction with top-tier OEM partners.
Profile
Gear6 LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Gear6 Company Twitter Account
Company News
Gear6 News
Facebook
Gear6 on Facebook
YouTube
Gear6 on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Tom Shea
  Tom Shea LinkedIn Profile  Tom Shea Twitter Account  Tom Shea News  Tom Shea on Facebook
Executive Vice President
Joaquín Ruiz
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VP - Engineering
Martin Patterson
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VP - Finance
Elliot Carpenter
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