Infinidat

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Infinidat
Company type Private
IndustryData storage
Founded2011
Founder Moshe Yanai
Headquarters Waltham, MA
Herzliya, Israel
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Phil Bullinger (CEO)
Shahar Bar-Or(CPO)
Alon Rozenshein(CFO)
Website www.infinidat.com

Infinidat is an Israeli-American data storage company.

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History

Infinidat was founded by Moshe Yanai [1] [2] in 2011. [3] By 2015 it was valued at $1.2 billion, [1] and in 2017 it was valued at $1.6 billion. [4] The company has offices in 17 countries and two headquarters: one in Waltham, MA and one in Herzliya, Israel. [5]

InfiniBox

In 2013 the company filed for thirty-nine patents, [2] and later that year released its flagship product, the InfiniBox. Each system initially managed about five petabytes of data. [4]

As of October 2017, the company had shipped about two exabytes worth of storage to its customers. [6] [7] The company uses conventional and flash storage, and has a better than one million IOPS performance and 99.99999 percent reliability. [8] The product is used by large corporations and clients including cloud service providers, telecoms, financial services firms, healthcare providers, and others that require large amounts of data storage. [9]

Funding

In 2015 the company received $150 million in funding during its Series B round led by TPG Growth. [10]

In 2017, the company received $95 million in funding, [4] in a Series C round led by Goldman Sachs. At this stage it had received $325 million in total funding. [5]

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