Nirvanix, a US-based provider of online storage services backed by Intel Capital, has raised $10m in its latest round of funding and hired Scott Genereux as its executive president.
Nirvanix has raised $33m in total since launch in 2007 and the latest funding came from repeat investors Intel Capital, the corporate venturing unit of semiconductor company Intel, and venture capital firms Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners and Windward Ventures. It also raised an undisclosed sum from the Samwer brothers’ European Founders Fund in April 2008.
Genereux joins Nirvanix from QLogic, where he was senior vice president of sales and marketing. Genereux succeeds Jim Zierick, who will continue to serve on Nirvanix’s advisory council having become chief executive in January last year.