DriveNets

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DriveNets
Company type Private company
Industry Telecommunications
Founded2015;9 years ago (2015) [1]
Founders
  • Ido Susan
  • Hillel Kobrinsky
[2]
Headquarters
Ra'anana
,
Israel [3]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Ido Susan (CEO)
Hillel Kobrinsky (CSO) [4]
Products Network operating system, Software-defined networking
Number of employees
450 [5]
Website www.drivenets.com

DriveNets is a software company, vendor of a network infrastructure platform [6] that runs over a physical infrastructure consisting of white boxes. [7] Founded in 2015 by industry veterans Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky.

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History

DriveNets was founded in 2015 by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky. Susan is the co-founder of Intucell, which he sold to Cisco for $475 million in 2013. [8] Kobrinsky co-founded Interwise, which was acquired by AT&T for $121 million. [9] DriveNets was in a stealth mode [10] and was self-funded until 2019. [11] In 2019, DriveNets raised $110 million in series A round from Bessemer Venture Partners and Pitango Growth, [2] along with John W. Thompson and Stephen J. Luczo. [12] In 2021, DriveNets raised $208 million in series B funding led by D1 Capital Partners with follow-on investments from Bessemer and Pitango and investment by Harel Insurance. [13] In August 2022, DriveNets announced it completed Series C funding of $262 million led by D2 Investments, along with former investors Bessemer, D1 Capital, Pitango and Atreides Management and Harel Insurance. [14] The company's estimated value was $2.5 billion, [15] after raising total sum of $587 million. [16]

The company has 450 employees at offices in Israel, Romania, Japan and USA. [17] The company has about 100 customers, including AT&T [18] and KDDI. [19] Among its partners are Fujitsu, Broadcom Inc., [20] Itochu Techno-Solutions, Wipro, KGPCo and EPCglobal. [21]

In November 2023, DriveNets joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, an industry effort to build optimal Ethernet for high-performance networking. [22] [23]

Technologies

DriveNets markets a scalable network operating system (NOS) based on a cloud. [24] The network cloud architecture creates a software routing framework that can grow linearly to a large scale from a centralized cloud. [25] The company leverages Telco-hierarchy cloud design principles such as containerized microservices, shared facilities, and inexpensive white boxes. [26] Another product that the company sells is a network operating system that relies on Ethernet to connect AI-optimized systems in a distributed cluster. The approach applies the Open Compute Project Distributed Disaggregated Chassis architecture, which enables AI clusters to scale at an adequate performance while keeping JCT low. [27]

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  1. ↑ Matt Hamblen (February 15, 2019). DriveNets Pockets $110M to Pave Software Disaggregation Path. SDxCentral.
  2. 1 2 Alex Konrad (February 14, 2019). This Founder Sold A Startup To Cisco For $475 Million. Now He's Raised $110 Million To Take It On. Forbes.
  3. ↑ Rickey Ben-David (August 17, 2022). Israeli startup DriveNets secures $262m for cloud networking software. The Times of Israel.
  4. ↑ Yasmin Yablonko (February 15, 2019). Israeli telco network co DriveNets raises $110m. Globes.
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  12. ↑ (July 8, 2019). DriveNets expands financing round to $117m. Globes.
  13. ↑ Meir Orbach (January 27, 2021). DriveNets raises $208 million in series B round, attains unicorn status. Calcalist.
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