ZeroStack, Inc., a pioneer in
self-service and scale-out private cloud, today announced $16 million in
new funding. The Series B round was led by Formation 8 with
contributions from existing investor Foundation Capital and current
member of the company’s board of directors, Mark Leslie. ZeroStack also
announced that Shirish Sathaye, general partner at Formation 8, will
join its board of directors.
“This round of financing will help us meet the overwhelming demand
for an end-to-end solution that provides the agility and ease-of-use of
the public cloud combined with the control and performance of the
private cloud,” said Ajay Gulati, co-founder and CEO of ZeroStack.
The ZeroStack Cloud Platform couples on-premises, hyper-converged
infrastructure with a web portal handling management and operations,
which includes complete health monitoring and predictive analytics.
ZeroStack was founded on the premise that building and operating a
private cloud should be fast, simple and cost-effective without
sacrificing functionality.
The ZeroStack Cloud Platform provides:
- The ability to build a cloud in minutes with no prior experience necessary
- Universal view and governance of cloud services across sites, business units and projects
- Full control of sensitive data with a self-healing architecture hosted on-site
- Curated updates through automated patching and upgrades
“We’re firmly in the midst of the next fundamental shift in
datacenter architecture – from physical to virtual and now to the
cloud,” said Shirish Sathaye, general partner at Formation 8. “The
potential for a solution that democratizes the private cloud is
massive.”
“We’ve been excited about what ZeroStack is doing since Ajay and
Kiran started their entrepreneurial journey from our office. Combining
the speed and simplicity of the Public Cloud with the performance and
security of the Private Cloud brings significant innovation to market by
combining both models,” said Ashu Garg, general partner at Foundation
Capital.
“From inception to over ten customer deployments in a little over a year is a remarkable trajectory,” said Mark Leslie, managing general partner of Leslie Ventures and former founder, chairman and CEO of Veritas Software.
“Having observed the initial phase of the company as part of its board
of directors, I’m really excited to see the adoption of the ZeroStack
Cloud Platform accelerate as more organizations discover the elegance of
the solution.”