SimpliVity Corporation, a US-based technology company which provides IT infrastructure delivered as building blocks through its OmniCube product, has raised $58m in series C funding co-led by existing investors, venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) Growth and DFJ Growth, and joined by venture capital firm Meritech Capital Partners and Swisscom Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of Switzerland-based leading telecom operator Swisscom, as well as existing investors, venture capital firms Accel and Charles River Ventures.
SimpliVity will use the C-round capital to support growth and specifically to bolster its engineering team.
John Doerr, general partner of Kleiner Perkins, said: “SimpliVity is one of the biggest innovations in enterprise computing since Vmware. Its OmniCube is radically simplifying IT infrastructure with systems that are better, faster, smaller and less expensive than competitive offerings. SimpliVity is well positioned to transform IT.”
SimpliVity emerged from stealth mode in August 2012 with the introduction of OmniCube, which is deployed as simplified building blocks whereby “each OmniCube delivers compute, hypervisor, storage, networking, cache accelerated performance, native VM-centric backup and replication for disaster recovery, and public cloud integration.”