Nutanix, a US-based IT infrastructure company backed by software provider SAP, has begun talks with banks over a prospective initial public offering that would value it at $2.5bn, Reuters reported today.
The company has interviewed banks about prospective underwriting positions for the offering later this year, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Founded in 2009, Nutanix provides server and storage services for data centres through a single turnkey system, and mainly services medium and large businesses.
Nutanix has accumulated more than $310m in venture funding, including $140m secured from Wellington Management and Fidelity Investments in August 2014 at a $2bn valuation.
The company’s other investors include Sapphire Ventures, the venture firm backed by, and spun out of SAP, as well as Riverwood Capital, Khosla Ventures, Battery Ventures, Greenspring Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.
Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix’s chief executive, told Reuters in November that the company would seek a “substantially better valuation” than $2bn in an IPO. Another IT storage company, Pure Storage, is reportedly preparing for an IPO that would value it at about $3bn.