Nutanix,
the web-scale converged infrastructure company, today announced that it has
closed a $140 million Series E funding round at over a $2 billion valuation.
The round brings the Company's total funding to $312 million. The round was led
by two premier Boston-based public market investors with over $3 trillion in
combined assets under management. The new capital will be used to invest in
sales, research and development, customer support and marketing and enable the
Company to accelerate its vision of making web-scale infrastructure ubiquitous
in enterprise datacenters.
"The convergence of servers, storage and networking in the
datacenter has created one of the largest business opportunities in enterprise
technology, and Nutanix is at the epicenter of this transformation," said
Dheeraj Pandey, co-founder and CEO, Nutanix. "We are proud of the progress
we have made, and are confident in capitalizing on the enormous opportunity
that lies ahead of us. We recognize the importance of building relationships
with leading public market investors, and are honored to welcome them as
partners in driving the long-term success of our Company."
With annualized bookings exceeding a run rate of $200 million, the
Company has secured more than 800 customers, including 29 customers who have
purchased more than $1 million in aggregate products and services.
Nutanix's growing list of customers includes Airbus, China Merchant Bank,
Honda, ConocoPhillips, Total SA, Toyota, US Navy and Yahoo! Japan. These
organizations seek the simplicity, scalability and efficiency of web-scale
datacenters to power their private cloud environments.
"Nutanix is a valuable partner. Their technology has enabled
Toyota to further simplify its datacenter infrastructure, improve performance
and lower costs," said Ned Curic, CTO, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.
"We are discovering transformative benefits through web-scale infrastructure
as our Nutanix footprint continues to grow. We look forward to expanding the
platform to new workloads in the future."
To meet the swelling market demand, Nutanix has built a broad
international distribution channel and established promising go-to-market
partnerships to raise awareness and increase accessibility of the technology.
In June, Nutanix announced
a landmark OEM agreement with Dell to build the XC Web-scale Converged
Appliance. The Dell-branded XC Series combines Nutanix software with Dell
hardware and is scheduled for general availability in the fourth calendar
quarter of 2014. In July and August, Nutanix signed distribution agreements with
Arrow and Avnet. Combined these partnerships
significantly augment existing routes to market and will help extend the
Company's rapid growth.