Druva

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Druva Inc.
Company type Private
Industry
Founded2008
FoundersJaspreet Singh, Milind Borate, Ramani Kothandaraman
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California, United States
Key people
Jaspreet Singh (CEO)
Milind Borate (CTO)
Products
  • Druva Phoenix
  • Druva inSync
  • Druva CloudRanger
RevenueIncrease2.svg $100.2 Million(2019) [1]
Number of employees
1,000+ [2]  (2022)
Website www.druva.com

Druva Inc. is an American privately-held software company based in Santa Clara, California. The company provides SaaS-based data protection and management products. [3] The company was founded in 2008, raised several rounds of funding, and grew to more than 800 employees.

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History

In 2008, Jaspreet Singh (CEO), Milind Borate (CTO), and Ramani Kothandaraman, who met working together at Veritas Software, [4] founded Druva in Pune, India. [5] [6] In Sanskrit, "druva" translates to "North Star". [7] Initially, Druva focused on providing data management software to financial companies before shifting to general enterprise data management. [5]

In 2010, the company received Series A funding. [4] In 2011, the company added smartphone support for its inSync app [8] and received Series B funding. [9] The next year, the company moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley, and again shifted focus to cloud-based data management and protection. [5] By 2013, the company had grown 194 employees. The company raised Series C funding the same year. [10]

In 2014, Druva released its Phoenix server backup product [11] and received Series D funding. [12] By 2016, the company had grown to 400 employees, [13] and set up a subsidiary in Japan and an office in Tokyo. [7] Druva received more funding [14] and FedRAMP authority to operate in 2017. [15] [16] In 2019, Druva grew to 750 employees and more than 4,000 customers, and opened an office in Singapore. [5] The company also received additional late-stage funding, [3] which brought its total amount invested to $328 million and its total valuation to more than $1 billion. [17]

In 2018, Druva acquired Letterkenny-based CloudRanger, a back-up and disaster recovery company. [18] In 2019, Druva acquired CloudLanes to supplement its on-premises to cloud performance. [19] [20] The following year it acquired sfApex, a Texas based backup and migration company focused on Salesforce data. [21] In April 2021, Druva raised $147 million in its eighth funding round, valuing the company at about $2 billion. [22] [23]

Products

Druva creates and sells data protection and management products.

All of Druva's products operate on same cloud-native backup platform built on Amazon Web Services that provides a centralized backup repository. [24] [25]

Druva is focused on storing data in backups and managing those backups for servers, Software-as-a-Service applications, and cloud-based software. [26] For example, in 2018 it introduced features that restore computer systems compromised by ransomware and specialized technology for backups of SQL servers, Azure directories, and network-attached storage. [26]

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References

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  2. ↑ Druva Fact Sheet (PDF), Druva
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