Platform9, the
open-source-as-a-service company
making hybrid clouds easy, today announced it has raised $22 million in
Series C funding led by Canvas Ventures. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
(HPE) also participated in the round, as did existing investors Redpoint
Ventures and Menlo Ventures. The funding round, which brings
Platform9's total capital raised to date to $36.5 million, allows the
company to scale its pioneering cloud delivery model, which makes it
easy to deploy, manage and maintain hybrid clouds with popular cloud
frameworks, such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and Fission. 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.
"Enterprises
today are racing to adopt the cloud, but struggle with managing
numerous infrastructure silos, ranging from legacy virtualized data
centers to pockets of public cloud deployments," said Sirish Raghuram,
CEO, Platform9. "With our novel SaaS approach to complex cloud
frameworks, we enable infrastructure anywhere to be easily managed using
industry-leading open-source frameworks such as Kubernetes and
OpenStack. Today, Platform9 is enabling DevOps, reducing costs and
accelerating cloud transformation for more than 200 clouds worldwide."
Platform9 emerges as a hybrid cloud leader
The financing round caps a year of tremendous growth for Platform9, in
which it has emerged as the leader in hybrid cloud management, ahead of
established virtualization and cloud megavendors. A few highlights
include:
- Customer base growth of 360 percent and revenue growth of 300 percent
- Winning marquee enterprise customers
across industries, with 60+ enterprise customers including Cadence
Design, Autodesk, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Sony Playstation
- Net revenue retention of 125 percent, with existing customers increasing their annual subscription licenses
- With
more than 200 enterprise clouds managed worldwide, Platform9 has
emerged as the top enterprise cloud platform in terms of number of
clouds managed
- Product breakthroughs including the industry's
first Kubernetes-as-a-service solution that manages any infrastructure,
Fission, the leading open source serverless framework, and Omni,
open-source extensions for OpenStack to manage public clouds
- Partnerships
and joint solution validation with leading enterprise vendors,
including NetApp, Nutanix, Juniper, Dell/EMC, HPE and public cloud
providers
"Enterprises know they have to move to the
cloud sooner or later," said Gary Little, partner at Canvas Ventures.
"But getting there is no small feat. Platform9 simplifies the challenge,
helping companies migrate to cloud computing more quickly and cost
effectively than any other solution. It also helps customers avoid being
locked into a single cloud provider. That's something that resonates
with chief technology officers across industries."