Radar · Enterprise Storage in California
Best Enterprise Storage Companies in California, United States
The 339 best Enterprise Storage companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Cohesity.
By Riya SenguptaFinancials
339companies tracked
$10.4Bdisclosed funding
7unicorns
158have raised
Ranked: Best Enterprise Storage companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cohesity 🦄 Cloud and AI based enterprise data backup and management solutions | $810M | 27 mo ago | 2,270 | 2013 | Mohit Aron Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+35 | 341 patents Enterprise data backup, storage orchestration, and snapshot recovery technologies | 1 launch |
| 2 | Dropbox Cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform for enterprise file sharing | $607M | 60 mo ago | 2,316 2,316 → 4,234 (+83%) | 2007 | Anjali Shiyal Co-Founder | Adobe Experience ManagerApple iCloud MailJava+40 | 1,789 patents Cloud-based file storage, content management, automated classification, and unified hybrid search. | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 3 | Rubrik 🦄 Provider of cyber resilience platform for data and identity security | $553M | 58 mo ago | 1,715 | 2014 | Bipul Sinha Co-Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspacePHP+31 | 599 patents Enterprise data backup, recovery, and migration across cloud and on-premise storage | 1 award |
| 4 | Pure Storage 🦄 Provider of data storage platforms and subscription services | $528M | 129 mo ago | 422 | 2009 | Charles Giancarlo CEO and Chairman | Adobe Experience ManagerApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+41 | 2,172 patents Flash storage systems: data placement, deduplication, replication, and autonomous block management | — |
| 5 | Druva 🦄 Provider of cloud-based platform for data protection, security, and governance | $475M | 62 mo ago | 697 | 2008 | Jaspreet Singh Co-Founder & CEO | Adobe Experience ManagerApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | 75 patents Cloud-based data backup, recovery, and compaction with snapshot and container management | — |
| 6 | Quantum Provider of data management solutions designed for the AI era | $360M | 89 mo ago | 850 850 → 955 (+12%) | 1980 | — | SentryApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+27 | 2,282 patents RF-based material detection and identification sensors for security and media handling | — |
| 7 | Nutanix AI powered cloud management software for enterprises | $317M | 69 mo ago | 8,416 8,416 → 9,925 (+18%) | 2009 | Rajiv Ramaswami President and CEO | Apple iCloud MailAlgoliaSalesforce+28 | 789 patents Hyper-converged infrastructure: distributed storage, file services, and virtual networking automation | 1 launch |
| 8 | Clumio Platform offering cloud data security solution | $261M | 27 mo ago | 126 | 2017 | — | Apple iCloud MailSalesforceVercel+26 | 26 patents Cloud-based data backup, restoration, and time-series data lake integration services | — |
| 9 | Tintri Smart storage for virtualization & cloud | $260M | 95 mo ago | 445 | 2008 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 41 patents High-performance deduplication, snapshot, and recovery for virtualized storage systems | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 10 | Cloudian Cloud object storage and converged infrastructure foe enterprises | $233M | 41 mo ago | 123 123 → 197 (+60%) | 2011 | Michael Tso Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | 8 patents Scalable object storage with advanced hashing, metadata partitioning, and hybrid data management | — |
| 11 | BlueArc Unified network storage systems | $221M | 190 mo ago | 65 | 1998 | — | — | 17 patents Advanced data storage management, including deduplication, allocation, replication, and hardware-accelerated file systems. | — |
| 12 | Datrium IO processing & active data converging storage devices provider | $170M | 93 mo ago | 183 | 2012 | — | — | 43 patents Virtualized storage management: encryption, migration, replication, bandwidth control, and monitoring | — |
| 13 | Panzura Provider of hybrid cloud file and data management platform services | $168M | 49 mo ago | 107 107 → 193 (+80%) | 2008 | Dan Waldschmidt Chief Executive Officer | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+39 | 41 patents Hybrid cloud distributed file system storage, caching, and real-time anomaly mitigation | 1 launch |
| 14 | Primary Data Software for Data Center Evolution | $155M | 106 mo ago | 82 | 2013 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Panasas Parallel file system based storage solutions provider | $149M | 88 mo ago | 59 | 1999 | — | — | 22 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 16 | Scality Cloud based platform offering software defined storage solutions for enterprises | $149M | 36 mo ago | 214 | 2009 | Jérôme Lecat CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 22 patents Object storage scalability and erasure-coded data protection across multi-cloud environments. | 2 launchs |
| 17 | Violin Systems Secure IT asset disposition, data destruction, and electronics recycling services | $129M | 141 mo ago | 26 26 → 35 (+35%) | 2005 | Ebrahim Abbasi CEO | — | — | — |
| 18 | Minio 🦄 Platform offering object storage solutions | $126M | 52 mo ago | 68 | 2014 | — | HugoMathJaxKaTeX+32 | — | 2 partnerships · 1 award |
| 19 | Virident Systems Enterprise storage products provider | $116M | 160 mo ago | 1 | 2006 | — | — | 157 patents Flash memory controller architectures optimizing write performance and asymmetric memory management | — |
| 20 | Lucidlink Provider of Cloud NAS based on object storage technology | $115M | 30 mo ago | 120 | 2016 | Peter Thompson Co-Founder & CEO | SentryAtlassian StatuspageZendesk+30 | — | 2 launchs |
| 21 | Pavilion Storage solutions for real-time data analytics and AI workloads | $107M | 52 mo ago | 86 | 2014 | Eric Sanders Owner | — | 3 patents Precise medical fluid infusion using stored energy and adjustable flow resistance | — |
| 22 | SpaceBelt Space-based network infrastructure for cloud service provider, enterprises and governments with security | $105M | 89 mo ago | — | 2015 | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | CNEX NVMe controller for SSDs with PCIe | $102M | 63 mo ago | 26 | 2013 | — | — | 62 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 24 | Lightbits Cloud and NVMe based SSD software provider | $100M | 47 mo ago | 105 | 2016 | George Agasandian Co-Founder & VP of Solutions Engineering | WordPressMySQLMariaDB+43 | — | 1 launch · 2 partnerships · 1 award |
| 25 | Datto Cloud based platform offering continuity management software | $100M | 127 mo ago | 1,650 | 2007 | Rania Succar CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+23 | 113 patents Cloud data backup, disaster recovery, and adaptive network traffic management solutions. | — |
| 26 | Coraid Simple, high-performance, and inexpensive storage area network (SAN) solutions | $100M | 149 mo ago | 9 | 2000 | — | — | 18 patents Enterprise SAN management, fault‑tolerant storage networking, and cloud‑scale data access solutions. | — |
| 27 | Hypergrid Hyper-converged infrastructure as a service | $93M | 93 mo ago | 48 | 2009 | — | — | 2 patents Performance scoring and evaluation methods for cloud computing services | — |
| 28 | Teneros Data continuity Software | $92M | 199 mo ago | 90 | 2003 | — | — | 28 patents Autonomous microservice management, backup/migration, and state-aware network traffic routing | — |
| 29 | TenaFe Platform offering storage solutions and SSDs | $87M | 55 mo ago | 75 | 2019 | Mike Lee Executive Chairman & Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | 3 patents Advanced LDPC decoder algorithms for error correction in digital communication systems | — |
| 30 | Komprise Provider of unstructured data management and artificial intelligence data workflow solutions | $85M | 40 mo ago | 128 | 2014 | Mike Peercy Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | 4 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 3 launchs |
| 31 | Troika Networks Storage virtualization platform | $81M | 251 mo ago | 75 | 1998 | Bill Terrell Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 32 | Chelsio Provider of high-performance Ethernet adapters and ASICs for networking solutions | $79M | 48 mo ago | 24 | 1997 | Kianoosh Naghshineh President | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — | — |
| 33 | Cavium Networks Intelligent networks using ARM and MIPS processors | $71M | 183 mo ago | 1,189 | 2001 | Syed A CEO and President | — | 77 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 34 | Nexenta Cloud-based software-defined storage solutions provider | $69M | 102 mo ago | 57 | 2005 | Tarkan Maner CEO | DrupalPHPSalesforce+14 | — | — |
| 35 | Coho Data Digital marketing and web development agency specializing in tailored online strategies | $66M | 130 mo ago | 5 | 2011 | — | — | 23 patents High‑performance, locality‑aware data storage and compression with virtualized interfaces | — |
| 36 | ScaleFlux Enterprise NAND flash based storage solutions provider | $66M | 68 mo ago | 260 | 2014 | Hao Zhong CEO & Co-Founder | ZohoNginxZoho Mail+3 | 75 patents Energy-efficient self-managed DRAM and adaptive compression/error correction for SSDs | 1 job opening |
| 37 | Hedvig Cyber resilience solutions for continuous business across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise | $65M | 111 mo ago | 31 | 2012 | Avinash Lakshman Founder & CEO | — | 24 patents Advanced virtual disk management: reservations, multi-protocol writes, cloning, snapshots. | — |
| 38 | Hammerspace Provider of storage management solutions 48Funding top 25%Moat top 31%Tech top 37%Product top 41% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% Moattop 31% Techtop 37% Producttop 41% AItop 45% Partnerstop 45% Marketbottom 48% Growthbottom 47% Talentbottom 42% Innovationbottom 37% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 31% Funding: Raised $56.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $57M | 3 mo ago | 74 | 2018 | David Flynn CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — | 1 award |
| 39 | Drobo Data Storage | $56M | 128 mo ago | 9 | 2004 | — | — | 23 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 40 | NGD Systems Developer of SSD storage systems | $45M | 76 mo ago | 34 | 2013 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+16 | — | — |
| 41 | InCountry Provider of data residency as a service for applications and identity 37Funding top 24%Moat top 31%News top 34%Growth top 35% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 24% Moattop 31% Newstop 34% Growthtop 35% Patentstop 48% Producttop 49% Innovationbottom 49% Techbottom 42% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 25% Funding: Raised $40.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 7 yrs (0.6/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 8 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $40M | 8 mo ago | 10 | 2019 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | 8 patents Edge computing platforms for localized data storage and compliance-driven processing | 1 launch |
| 42 | Open Drives Enterprise data management and storage solutions provider enabling data-intensive workflows | $35M | 4 mo ago | 72 72 → 41 (-43%) | 2011 | Trevor Morgan CEO | — | 8 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 award |
| 43 | Infrascale Cloud-based data protection solutions for backup, disaster recovery, and data security | $34M | 76 mo ago | 63 | 2006 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+23 | — | — |
| 44 | Alcion Provider of data protection and cyber security solutions for enterprises | $29M | 33 mo ago | 21 | 2022 | Niraj Tolia Co-Founder & CEO | — | 3 patents Resource-level anomaly detection using entropy metrics for IT/cloud infrastructure monitoring | — |
| 45 | SwiftStack Developer of platforms and software for artificial intelligence and data centers | $26M | 28 mo ago | 50 | 2011 | — | — | 4 patents Distributed storage reliability, data durability, and secure multi-tenant service discovery/routing | — |
| 46 | Spin Systems Provider of SaaS security solutions protecting data from threats and risks 55Growth top 35%Tech top 36%Funding top 38%Moat top 39% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Techtop 36% Fundingtop 38% Moattop 39% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 39% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Tech: 38 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $18M | 3 mo ago | 67 | 2017 | Dmitry Dontov Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+34 | — | — |
| 47 | Archil Provider of cloud volume storage solution for data-intensive applications 29Funding top 29%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 48%Tech bottom 44% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 29% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 44% Marketbottom 31% Funding: Raised $17.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $18M | 1 mo ago | — | 2024 | Hunter Leath Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Node.js+12 | — | — |
| 48 | DDN 🦄 Platform offering big data and HPC storage appliances for businesses | $10M | 16 mo ago | 456 | 1998 | Paul Bloch President and Co-Founder | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+21 | — | — |
| 49 | Internxt Provider of secure cloud storage, antivirus, VPN, and cleaner applications 55Growth top 24%Tech top 30%Funding top 37%Customers top 37% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 24% Techtop 30% Fundingtop 37% Customerstop 37% Producttop 46% Moattop 48% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 33% Newsbottom 31% Growth: Web rank 500,000 → 100,000 YoY · App-install growth +54% YoY Tech: 41 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $5M | 11 mo ago | 17 | 2017 | Fran Segarra Founder & CEO | Node.jsHeadless UITailwind CSS+19 | — | 1 partnership |
| 50 | Acromove Provider of portable NAS system | $3M | 13 mo ago | 17 | 2001 | Artemios Achillopoulos Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | — | — |
Top 12 Enterprise Storage companies in California
#1
Series B · Los Altos, California · founded 2018 · 74 employees$56.7Mraised▾
Series B · Los Altos, California · founded 2018 · 74 employees
Provider of storage management solutions. The platform offered by the company leverages machine learning, data virtualization, and Metadata. It provides storage solutions such as cloud analytics, NAS, SAN, object data management, and hybrid cloud management.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 48how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 25%Moat
top 31%Tech
top 37%Product
top 41%AI
top 45%Partners
top 45%Funding: Raised $56.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) · Last round Series B (Feb 2026)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
Tech: 50 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Devops: Nginx
Audience (LinkedIn): 35k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Feb 2026Series B—
- Apr 2025Series B$100M
- Jul 2023Series A$56.7M
Founders & team
Investors
Prosperity7 Ventures, Pier 88 Investment Partners, ARK Investment Management, Altimeter Capital, Ark Invest ETFs, SK Square
Tech stack
6SenseBricksCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementComplianzGoogle Analytics
#2
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$17.7Mraised▾
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024
Provider of cloud volume storage solution for data-intensive applications. The solution offers scalable performance and integration with existing data infrastructure. It provides compatibility with applications, supporting POSIX semantics. The storage solution allows simultaneous access from multiple instances, eliminating the need to partition large data sets.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 29how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 29%Talent
bottom 49%Global
bottom 48%Tech
bottom 44%Market
bottom 31%Funding: Raised $17.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Apr 2026)
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Global: Investors from 2 countries beyond United States
Audience (LinkedIn): 1k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series A$11M
- Jun 2025Seed$6.7M
Founders & team
Investors
Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, General Catalyst, Lombardstreet Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareHstsMicrosoft 365Next.JsNext.Js App Router
#3
Series B · Santa Monica, California · founded 2011 · 72 employees$35Mraised▾
Series B · Santa Monica, California · founded 2011 · 72 employees
Enterprise data management and storage solutions provider enabling data-intensive workflows. The company specializes in providing high-performance, scalable, and flexible data solutions. Their offerings include software-defined NAS platforms, dynamically scalable data services, and fully managed cloud services. These products are designed to address evolving data challenges, simplify complexity, and provide freedom in architecting workflows. The company emphasizes openness, high performance, ease of use, flexibility, interoperability, and cost predictability. They cater to industries with high-bandwidth, low-latency requirements, offering solutions for cloud, hybrid, and remote environments, data protection, backup, and containerization. They operate with a channel-first philosophy and prioritize customer service, working closely with partners and customers to solve complex challenges. Their solutions aim to empower businesses to manage and leverage their data effectively.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jan 2026Series B—
- Jan 2021Series B$20M
- Feb 2018Series B$12M
- 2016Series A—
Founders & team
Investors
IAG Capital Partners, Tull Investment, Bonfire Ventures, Double M Partners, Percy Capital, UCEA
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpNginxJquery MigrateJquery
#4
Series A · Palo Alto, California · founded 2017 · 67 employees$18Mraised▾
Series A · Palo Alto, California · founded 2017 · 67 employees
Provider of SaaS security solutions protecting data from threats and risks. The company offers a platform that provides security posture management, ransomware detection and response, and data loss prevention. It delivers tools for risk assessment, misconfiguration management, and insider threat protection. The platform integrates with applications to provide security for professionals.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 35%Tech
top 36%Funding
top 38%Moat
top 39%Talent
bottom 49%Market
bottom 45%Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 38 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront · Devops: Nginx
Funding: Raised $18.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series A (Mar 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 5k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series A—
- Aug 2022Series A$16.1M
- Dec 2018Seed$1.5M
- Sep 2017Seed$500K
Founders & team
Investors
Blueprint Equity, Santa Barbara Venture Partners, Blu Venture Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, AVentures Capital, bValue Fund
Tech stack
All In One SeoAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#5
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 10 employees$40Mraised▾
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 10 employees
Provider of data residency as a service for applications and identity. The company offers services to integrate data residency into existing applications. It provides web services proxy, a REST API, and mail proxy to isolate data. The company’s point-of-presence securely stores and processes data with auditable logging and encryption options.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 37how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 24%Moat
top 31%News
top 34%Growth
top 35%Patents
top 48%Product
top 49%Funding: Raised $40.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 7 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series B (Sep 2025)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 8 patents · Soonicorn
News: 3 BI events in 12 mo (of 13 tracked, 3 types) · Top themes: Funding
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Sep 2025Series B$10M
- Sep 2020Series B$18M
- Jul 2019Series A$15M
- May 2019Seed$7M
Investors
Caffeinated Capital, Mubadala, Accenture, Arbor Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Bloomberg Beta
Tech stack
A3 Lazy LoadAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCdnjsCloudflareContact Form 7
#6
Cohesity 🦄Series F · San Jose, California · founded 2013 · 2270 employees$810Mraised▾
Cohesity 🦄
Series F · San Jose, California · founded 2013 · 2270 employees
Cloud and AI based enterprise data backup and management solutions. It provides a hardware data platform encompassing potent data storage and management with analytics for actionable insights that can be used by DevOps. It also offers solutions such as data protection and deduplication cloning, ransomware recovery, data management solutions, and more.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 470k LinkedIn followers — 14.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Mar 2024Series F$150M
- Apr 2020Series E$250M
- Jun 2018Series D$250M
- Apr 2017Series C$90M
Founders & team
Investors
Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Cisco Investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Accel, Battery Ventures
Tech stack
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Client Data LayerAdobe Experience ManagerAdobe TargetAkamaiAngular
#7
Series B · Santa Monica, California · founded 2017 · 17 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Series B · Santa Monica, California · founded 2017 · 17 employees
Provider of secure cloud storage, antivirus, VPN, and cleaner applications. The company offers encrypted cloud storage with file management capabilities. It provides antivirus software, VPN services, and cleaner applications. The platform emphasizes data protection through encryption and open-source transparency.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 24%Tech
top 30%Funding
top 37%Customers
top 37%Product
top 46%Moat
top 48%Growth: Web rank 500,000 → 100,000 YoY · App-install growth +54% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 41 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Devops: Nginx
Funding: Raised $4.6M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 9 yrs (0.9/yr) · Last round Series B (Jul 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 9k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Internxt) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jul 2025Series B$3.8M
- May 2024Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Jan 2024Series A$3.3M
- Apr 2022Series A—
Founders & team
Investors
SociosInversores, Delwik Group, Esade Alumni, Caixa Popular, Angels Capital, TheVentureCity
Tech stack
AddshoppersCloudflareCloudflare Rocket LoaderCore-JsEmotionExpress
#8
Acquired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2017 · 126 employees$261Mraised▾
Acquired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2017 · 126 employees
Platform offering cloud data security solution. It provides protection to Amazon S3 data and Microsoft 365. It secures objects, data lakes, warehouses, exabyte-scale S3 buckets, application data, VMware Cloud data, etc. It provides backup solutions and helps in cost reduction
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 51k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Feb 2024Series D$75M
- Nov 2019Series C$135M
- Nov 2018Series B$40M
- Oct 2017Series A$11M
Investors
Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, Altimeter Capital, NewView Capital, Human Capital, Human Capital Development
#9
DDN 🦄Series B · Chatsworth, California · founded 1998 · 456 employees$9.9Mraised▾
DDN 🦄
Series B · Chatsworth, California · founded 1998 · 456 employees
Platform offering big data and HPC storage appliances for businesses. It provides storage arrays, file systems, and object storage appliances for the cloud and data intensive environments and big data applications. It offers IME, a burst buffer, IO and application accelerator, Scalar, a parallel file system appliance, and WOS, a high performance object storage solution. The company offers products that provide data management, network-attached storage, block data storage, clustered file systems, and object storage. The company serves the entertainment, internet media, surveillance, and HPC vertical markets.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 92k LinkedIn followers — 2.9% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- Jan 2025Series B$300M
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$583.8K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Jan 2002Series A$9.9M
Founders & team
Investors
ClearLight Partners, Digital Coast Ventures, Blackstone, Europa
#10
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2001 · 17 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2001 · 17 employees
Acromove is a provider of portable NAS systems. It builds portable NAS systems. The device can be used for big data migration, disaster recovery, business continuity, edge computing, and digital productions. The company offers two main products which are ServerPack 35 and ThunderPack Mini. It is a hyper-converged software defined system that combines physical and virtualized storage, compute, network, and manage them as a single system.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Orro Group) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- May 2025Series A$3.4M
Founders & team
Investors
EFA VENTURES, Odyssey Venture Partners
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpGoogle MapsPhloxAddtoany Share Buttons
#11
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 120 employees$115Mraised▾
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 120 employees
LucidLink is a provider of Cloud NAS based on object storage technology. It provides the facility to stream files from cloud object stores directly to clients. The solution is suitable for all types of cloud infrastructures such as private, public, and hybrid. It supports Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 15k LinkedIn followers · 23 engagements/post (2.0× cohort median)
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Nov 2023Series C$75M
- May 2022Series B$20M
- May 2021Series A$12M
- Sep 2018Seed$900K
Founders & team
Investors
Headline, Baseline Ventures, CAP Venture Capital, Adobe, BrightCap Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAmazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAmplitude
#12
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 214 employees$149Mraised▾
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 214 employees
Cloud based platform offering software defined storage solutions for enterprises. It provides a storage platform that delivers high IO under parallel load and high throughput for large files with features that are traditionally found on high end SAN, such as data persistence through replication and checksum, geo redundancy, snapshot, automatic tiering, and automatic garbage collection. In addition, It supports multiple ways to connect to applications, including HTTP REST, RS2 API, and FUSE.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 20k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jun 2023Series E—
- Apr 2021Series E—
- Apr 2018Series E$60M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$426.3K
Founders & team
Investors
BroadBand Tower, Menlo Ventures, Omnes Capital, IRIS, Galileo Partners, Idinvest Partners
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDiviDocusignElementor
Funding & investor landscape
$10.4Btotal disclosed funding
167companies funded
465disclosed rounds
1rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Sequoia Capital10 rounds
Notable founders
David Flynn
CEO · Hammerspace
Hunter Leath
Founder & CEO · Archil
Trevor Morgan
CEO · Open Drives
Dmitry Dontov
Co-Founder & CEO · Spin Systems
Mohit Aron
Founder · Cohesity
Sanjay Poonen
CEO · Cohesity
Fran Segarra
Founder & CEO · Internxt
Paul Bloch
President and Co-Founder · DDN
Alex Bouzari
Co-Founder & CEO · DDN
Artemios Achillopoulos
Co-Founder & CEO · Acromove
Evangelos Achillopoulos
Co-Founder & CTO · Acromove
Peter Thompson
Co-Founder & CEO · Lucidlink
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,069,130 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Enterprise Storage coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH IN CALIFORNIA · Hardware
How research on Memory Storage in California is moving
A read on the academic research around Memory Storage in California — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 440 papers.
UC Los Angeles, Berkeley, and San Diego lead California's memory-storage research, focusing dominantly on Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, with an optimistic tone (mean stance 0.59, breakthroughs prevailing).
440 papers · stance +0.59 · 53% breakthrough · 15% concern
top institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles74
- University of California, Berkeley71
- University of California, San Diego60
- University of California, Santa Barbara52
- California Institute of Technology47
leading researchers
Steven Swanson · Paul H. Siegel · Eitan Yaakobi · Jehoshua Bruck · Anxiao Jiang · Laura M. Grupp
prism intelligence · tone & topics
91% positive · 1% critical tone
Computer ScienceElectronicsHardwareMaterials ScienceArtificial IntelligenceComputing
▲
Breakthroughs220 · 50%
▲ 46%→56% share
▲1.2× share momentum14 median citations21% since 2021mostly methods-led
Ferroelectricity research is intensifying — papers rose from 6 to 9, driving breakthroughs segment to 56% field-share.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Ferroelectricity6→9
- Bottleneck1→4
- Semiconductor memory1→3
- Content-addressable memory1→3
- Magnetoresistive random-access memory3→4
Newly emergingComputer data storage 0→3 · Robustness (evolution) 0→3
Landmark Non-volatile memory based on the ferroelectric photovoltaic effect · 488 cites
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Advancements131 · 30%
▼ 34%→30% share
▼0.9× share momentum9 median citations19% since 2021mostly methods-led
Neuromorphic engineering is surging — papers jumped sixfold from 1 to 6 within advancements.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Neuromorphic engineering1→6
- Ferroelectricity3→5
Landmark Low-power non-volatile spintronic memory: STT-RAM and beyond · 534 cites
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Concerns61 · 14%
▲ 11%→13% share
▲1.2× share momentum14 median citations18% since 2021mostly empirical
DRAM reliability concerns are rising sharply — papers quadrupled from 1 to 4, with memory hierarchy newly emerging at 3 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Dram1→4
Newly emergingMemory hierarchy 0→3
Landmark The mechanism of electroforming of metal oxide memristive switches · 847 cites
Common questions
How many Enterprise Storage companies are there in California, United States?
Radar tracks 339 indexable Enterprise Storage companies headquartered in California, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Enterprise Storage companies in California, United States?
The Enterprise Storage companies in California, United States on this list have raised a combined $10.4B in disclosed equity funding across 167 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Enterprise Storage company in California, United States?
Cohesity is the highest-funded Enterprise Storage company in California, United States, with $810M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Enterprise Storage companies in California, United States are funded?
167 of the 339 Enterprise Storage companies in California, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Enterprise Storage unicorns are there in California, United States?
7 Enterprise Storage companies in California, United States on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in California, United States Enterprise Storage companies?
The most active investors in California, United States Enterprise Storage companies on this list include Intel Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Western Technology Investment, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures.
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