AlephCloud, a US-based provider of technology that manages content privacy and provenance in public clouds, has raised $7.5m in its series B round and joined the accelerator managed by phone operator Orange.
Venture capital firm Handbag led the B round for AlephCloud, which has now raised $9.5m in aggregate.
Jieming Zhu, former chief technologist at HP Storage, and Roy D’Souza, an architect at Microsoft Azure Trust Services, founded AlephCloud in 2011.
AlephCloud is one of six start-ups to be selected for Orange Fab, a technology accelerator program managed by Orange Silicon Valley, a subsidiary of France Telecom.
The others in this inaugural class are Virtrue, ReChar, Fenix Intl, Phone Halo and TalkDesk.