Best Enterprise Storage Companies in England, United Kingdom
The 60 best Enterprise Storage companies in England, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SoftIron.
Ranked: Best Enterprise Storage companies in England
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SoftIron Provider of enterprise grade distributed storage platform | $41M | 75 mo ago | Series B | Norman Fraser Co-Founder | 2012 | — | 80 patents Secure, software-defined data center hardware management and storage media protection | — |
| 2 | Assured Data Protection Cloud data security solutions provider 57Talent top 24%Innovation top 34%Product top 36%Funding top 37% All 10 signals ▾Talenttop 24% Innovationtop 34% Producttop 36% Fundingtop 37% Globaltop 38% Newstop 47% Growthtop 48% Moattop 48% Techbottom 46% Marketbottom 41% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Innovation: 11 product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $34M | 4 mo ago | Series A | Stacy Hayes Co-Founder | 2016 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+16 | — | 2 partnerships · 1 expansion · 1 award |
| 3 | Sunlight Cloud based hyper converged infrastructure software provider | $20M | 41 mo ago | Series A | — | 2018 | — | 4 patents Integrated circuit SAN controller ASICs with multiple logic paths for storage networking | — |
| 4 | Arweave Decentralized data storage protocol for enterprises | $14M | 64 mo ago | Series A | Alyssa Kies Executive Assistant to Founder | 2017 | GitBookNode.jsReact+13 | — | — |
| 5 | Irys 48Funding top 36%Tech top 48%Moat top 48%Talent bottom 49% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 36% Techtop 48% Moattop 48% Talentbottom 49% Growthbottom 48% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 39% Funding: Raised $8.9M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) Tech: 21 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $9M | 10 mo ago | Series A | Josh Benaron Founder & CEO | 2010 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+13 | — | — |
| 6 | CESS Network Blockchain-powered decentralized cloud storage network infrastructure | $8M | 22 mo ago | Series A | Joseph Li Co-Founder | 2019 | Three.jsMapLibre GL JSMapbox GL JS+12 | — | — |
| 7 | StarWind Software Hyper converged infrastructure provider | $5M | 146 mo ago | Acquired | Anton Kolomyeytsev Co-Founder & CEO | 2008 | PHPJavaLaravel+19 | — | — |
| 8 | Green Edge Platform offering Decentralized cloud storage solutions | $4M | 58 mo ago | Series A | Mariza Wesley Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Dataslide Hard Rectangular Drive - 2D parallel storage solutions | $500K | 251 mo ago | Deadpooled | Charles Barnes Founder & CEO | 2002 | — | — | — |
| 10 | StorMagic Cloud-based virtual SAN management software provider | — | 23 mo ago | Seed | — | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | 13 patents Optimizing data caching and memory load balancing in storage and server systems | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 11 | Redstor Provider of data management software for cloud backup and disaster recovery | — | 53 mo ago | Seed | Paul Evans Co-Founder | 1998 | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+31 | — | — |
Top 12 Enterprise Storage companies in England
#1
Series A · Leeds, England · founded 2016 · 21 employees$34.1Mraised▾
Cloud data security solutions provider. The features of the product include data recovery, elimination of labour Intensive, manual tasks, disaster recovery, cloud data management, and more. It offers backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions to SME and enterprises.
- Mar 2026Conventional Debt—
- Oct 2024Series A$34.1M
- Oct 2023Seed—
#2
Series A · London, England · founded 2010$8.9Mraised▾
- Aug 2025Series A$10M
- Jun 2024Seed$3.5M
- May 2022Seed$5.2M
#3
Series A · Manchester, England · founded 2019$8Mraised▾
Blockchain-powered decentralized cloud storage network infrastructure. It enables secure and scalable data sharing and storage for web3 applications. The platform utilizes a decentralized architecture to provide a scalable and storage solution for users and creators. With its native technology, It enables the sharing of data on-chain, while also providing a secure and tamper-proof storage solution for sensitive data.
- Aug 2024Series A$8M
#4
Series A · Cambridge, England · founded 2018 · 39 employees$20Mraised▾
Cloud based hyper converged infrastructure software provider. Its offerings include software-defined storage, software-defined networking, and more. Its features include cacheable datasets management, analytics management, big data management, and hyper-converged infrastructure suite management.
- Jan 2023Series A—
- Dec 2020Series A$6M
#5
Series B · London, England · founded 2012 · 15 employees$41Mraised▾
Provider of enterprise grade distributed storage platform. It provides product, HyperCloud, offers a comprehensive set of building blocks for server virtualization, enabling users to deploy, manage, and scale infrastructure components. It offers solutions for IT infrastructure focusing on private cloud experiences.
- Mar 2020Series B$34M
- Sep 2017Series A$7M
#6
Series A · London, England · founded 2017 · 1 employees$14.4Mraised▾
Decentralized data storage protocol for enterprises The platform follows a self-organising decentralised algorithm that allows the network to adapt autonomously to the most efficient routes of information distribution. Offers REST APIs, that allow developers to create Arweave apps in any programming language.
- Feb 2021Series A—
- Mar 2020Series A$8.3M
- Nov 2019Series A$5M
- 2018Seed$1.1M
#7
Series A · London, England · founded 2018 · 2 employees$4.4Mraised▾
Platform offering Decentralized cloud storage solutions. The platform offers cloud computing and storage capacity on the threefold network. It automatically encrypts all data at its source, and then splits it into chunks that are stored across the distributed network. It has data centres across various countries.
- Aug 2021Series A$1.5M
- Jan 2019Series A$2.6M
- Jun 2018Seed$372.8K
#8
Acquired · Wakefield, England · founded 2008 · 281 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Hyper converged infrastructure provider. It is a software-based hypervisor-centric virtual machine storage. It creates a storage pool that is built for the virtualization workload by mirroring inexpensive internal storage between hypervisor hosts.
- Apr 2014Series B$3.2M
- Feb 2009Series A$2M
#9
Deadpooled · Newhaven, England · founded 2002$500Kraised▾
DataSlide is a provider pf 2D parallel storage solution called that doesnt use read-write head on HDD but uses a 2D array of readers running parallel with recording surface oscillating rectangularly. The HRD solutions claims to use 60 percent lower power than HDD solution and more shock-resistant as well.
- Jul 2005Seed$500K
#10
Seed · Bristol, England · founded 2006 · 45 employees—raised▾
Cloud-based virtual SAN management software provider. Its product SvSAN is a software-defined storage solution designed to run on two or more servers. Its software solution synchronously mirrors storage across multiple servers eliminating single points of failure and deploys and configures across multiple and distributed sites. This helps in reducing the downtime.
- Jul 2024Seed—
#11
Seed · Reading, England · founded 1998 · 38 employees—raised▾
Provider of data management software for cloud backup and disaster recovery. It offers custom data management software for cloud backup and disaster recovery. It provides products for cloud data management, cloud backup, disaster recovery, cloud archiving, analytics, and security. The cloud storage is automated, scalable, and secure, and the recovery technology is suitable for automating the recovery of systems to VMware or Hyper V format. It also offers file sync and share, centralized management, and extensible APIs.
- Jan 2022Seed—
- Nov 2017Seed—
#12
Funding Raised · Cheshire, England · founded 2007 · 10 employees—raised▾
Provider of a cloud-based file management platform. It provides users with a file upload and sharing platform. It also provides users with a platform for storing and selling their content like photos, videos, music, podcasts, and documents.
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
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
How research on Memory & Storage Tech is moving in the United Kingdom
A read on the academic research around Memory & Storage Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 449 United Kingdom-affiliated papers.
- Institute of Physics52
- University of Cambridge41
- University of Southampton36
- Imperial College London22
- University of Glasgow20
- Neuromorphic engineering3→18
- Ferroelectricity11→22
- Transistor7→15
- Scalability4→9
- Memristor5→10
- Neuromorphic engineering2→7
- Crossbar switch2→7
- Polarization (electrochemistry)2→4
- Scalability3→4
- Magnetoresistive random-access memory3→4
- Non-volatile memory14
- Flash (photography)8
- Embedded system7
- Dram6
- Flash memory6
Where memory storage is researched across United Kingdom
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing memory storage patents in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom memory storage patent filing is cooling — 206 filings from 153 assignees (2016–2025), led by Advanced RISC MACH, IBM, IBM UK; annual filings 13→4.
- Advanced RISC MACH110
- IBM60
- IBM UK60
- Gorobets Sergey Anatolievich45
- Sandisk29
- Bennett ALAN David27
- Sandisk Technologies20
- IBM China Investment19
Common questions
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