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Best IT Operations Companies in Sunnyvale, United States

The 33 best IT Operations companies in Sunnyvale, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Clumio.

33companies tracked
$903.5Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
16have raised

Ranked: Best IT Operations companies in Sunnyvale

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Clumio
Platform offering cloud data security solution
$261M32 mo agoAcquired126—Apple iCloud MailSalesforceVercel+2643 patents
Cloud backup and recovery for key-value and time-series data using incremental storage
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2Infinera 🦄
Provider of networking, infrastructure, and communications solutions across various industries
$235M35 mo agoAcquired1,314David Welch
Founder
—1,454 patents
Coherent optical transport networks, subcarrier multiplexing, Raman amplification, and signal quality optimization
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3Datrium
IO processing & active data converging storage devices provider
$170M97 mo agoAcquired183——43 patents
Optimizing virtualized storage systems: encryption, migration, replication, bandwidth, and monitoring
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4Zetta
Enterprise-grade Online Backup
$45M143 mo agoAcqui-Hired35——31 patents
Efficient data replication, backup, and distributed storage with bandwidth optimization
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5Anagran
Flow-based traffic management solutions
$35M217 mo agoDeadpooled7Dr. Lawrence Roberts
Founder & CEO
—5 patents
Network traffic engineering: IP flow routing and output port utilization optimization
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6OpsClarity
Monitoring and Anomaly detection for web-scale apps
$22M131 mo agoAcquired22——12 patents
Network topology generation, monitoring, and context-aware anomaly detection for network management
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7Aduva
Patch management tool for Linux and Solaris platforms
$22M297 mo agoAcqui-Hired—Zev Laderman
ex - Chairman & CEO
———
8Pepperdata
Cloud based platform offering application performance management solutions
$21M138 mo agoSeries B49Chad Carson
Co-Founder
—13 patents
Optimizing and dynamically allocating resources in big‑data cluster computing environments.
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9Neumob
VPN for mobile internet
$15M133 mo agoAcquired19——7 patents
Optimizing mobile network traffic via software-defined filtering and acceleration technologies.
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10Last9
Provider of cloud‑native observability platform for businesses
$13M54 mo agoSeries A16
16 → 30 (+88%)
Nishant Modak
Co-Founder & CEO
Tailwind CSSVercelAmazon Web Services+11——
11Zmanda
Cloud based data backup and recovery software
$13M233 mo agoAcquired15—WordPressMySQLPHP+22——
12Saisei
Network Performance Enforcement Solutions
$12M132 mo agoAcquired15Bill Beckett
CSO & Founder
———
13RapidFort
Cloud based platform offering patch management solutions
50News top 30%Funding top 35%Moat top 37%Talent top 38%
All 10 signals ▾
Newstop 30%
Fundingtop 35%
Moattop 37%
Talenttop 38%
Techtop 40%
Innovationtop 41%
Patentstop 43%
Growthtop 45%
Globalbottom 37%
Marketbottom 35%
News: 4 BI events in 12 mo (of 6 tracked, 3 types) · Top themes: Funding, Capital raise
Funding: Raised $9.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100
$9M9 mo agoSeries A28Rajeev Thakur
Co-Founder & CTO
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+2411 patents
Runtime software instrumentation and performance profiling tools for code execution analysis.
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14wirex cube
WireX Cube offers network forensics services that enables businesses to resolve cyber-attacks.
$9M135 mo agoSeries A19—WordPressMySQLPHP+28——
15SignifAI
Machine intelligence for technical operations teams
$9M99 mo agoAcqui-Hired20——6 patents
AI-driven network traffic monitoring and security analytics for computer systems
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16FogLogic
AIOps platform for SAP operations, automation, observability, and intelligent operations
$7M114 mo agoSeries A17Chandy Nilakantan
Co-Founder & CTO
———
17OpsCruise
Cloud native application performance monitoring solutions provider
$5M68 mo agoAcquired46Shridhar Venkatraman
Co-Founder
———
18Relvy
Developer of AI-powered debugging notebooks designed to accelerate incident resolution
$500K28 mo agoSeed—Bharath Bhat
Co-Founder & CEO
WebflowAmazon Web Servicescore-js+12——

Top 12 IT Operations companies in Sunnyvale

#1
Series A · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2020 · 28 employees
$9.4Mraised
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Cloud based platform offering patch management solutions. It provides a release management platform that offers solutions for securing and optimizing the cloud by eliminating vulnerabilities and managing patch management backlogs. It offers a solution that integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, targeting both development and security teams. The platform is available on the subscription based pricing model.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 50how this company ranks against its industry peers
News
top 30%
Funding
top 35%
Moat
top 37%
Talent
top 38%
Tech
top 40%
Innovation
top 41%
News: 4 BI events in 12 mo (of 6 tracked, 3 types) · Top themes: Funding, Capital raise
Funding: Raised $9.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Series A (Feb 2026)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 11 patents · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 27k LinkedIn followers — 27.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2026Series A$42M
  • Mar 2022Seed$9.4M
Founders & team
Rajeev ThakurCo-Founder & CTOMehran FarimaniCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Felicis Ventures, ForgePoint Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Global Founders Capital, Plug and Play Tech Center, GIT1K
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookie ScriptCore-JsDocusign
#2
Acquired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2017 · 126 employees
$261Mraised
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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 — 51.4% of this cohort's audience
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
#3
Acquired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2000 · 1314 employees
$234.9Mraised
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Provider of networking, infrastructure, and communications solutions across various industries. The company delivers network solutions, including optical, data center, and security options. It offers services, such as network design, deployment, and operation, across mobile, fixed, and transport networks. The company provides resources like documentation, training, and support for its offerings.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$14M
  • Aug 2022Post IPO$325M
  • Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$695.7K
  • Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$392.7K
Founders & team
David WelchFounder
Investors
Europa, Accel, Benchmark, Mobius Venture Capital, Venrock, Sutter Hill Ventures
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpYoast Seo PremiumYoast SeoNginx
#4
Acquired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2012 · 183 employees
$170Mraised
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Datrium provides a converged infrastructure device under its model known Open Convergence Model. Its DVX hypervisor splits server-powered speed and data services from appliance-based durable capacity, dramatically simplifying storage management. This improves performance compared to All-flash and provides more flexibility than hyper-converged infrastructure. Clients include Gartner Peer Insights, Ultra Petroleum, Ashion, and Orange County Transportation Authority.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2018Series D$60M
  • Dec 2016Series C$55M
  • 2013Series B—
  • 2012Series A—
Investors
New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Icon Ventures
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpNginxWp Engine
#5
Acqui-Hired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2007 · 35 employees
$45.4Mraised
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Zetta.net delivers an enterprise-grade online backup and disaster recovery solution for small and mid-sized businesses, enterprises, and MSPs. Zetta DataProtect is a 3-in-1 simple online backup service that integrates local, offsite, and remote office backup, archiving and disaster recovery. It doesn’t require appliances for on-premise backups.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2014Series B$3.1M
  • Jun 2013Series B$8M
  • Sep 2011Series B$9M
  • Nov 2010Series B$11.6M
Investors
Sigma Partners, Foundation Capital, Industry Ventures, Marlin Equity Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, Amidzad Partners
#6
Series A · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2020 · 16 employees
$13Mraised
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Provider of observability software for monitoring logs, traces, and metrics. This platform enables engineering teams to collect and analyze telemetry data from various infrastructure and application sources. It is an observability platform designed for engineering teams to monitor, debug, and improve software systems. The software includes tools for managing data ingestion, filtering, and routing to optimize storage and visibility. It allows users to access dashboards and alert features to track system behavior and identify anomalies. The system integrates with open standards to support compatibility with existing technical stacks.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 9.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Series A$11M
  • Apr 2020Seed$2M
Founders & team
Nishant ModakCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Surge, Better Capital, Peak XV Partners, Mars Shot Ventures, Luminaire Capital, Alpha JWC Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAstroCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGatsby
#7
Deadpooled · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2004 · 7 employees
$34.6Mraised
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Anagran provides flow-based traffic management solution. Its products eliminate the potentially crippling effects of network congestion to enable video, voice, data and wireless traffic to economically scale with flawless quality over converged IP networks. It dynamically manages all network traffic regardless of application, protocol, or format, without using invasive, performance-limiting deep packet inspection(DPI) techniques.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2008Series D$8.6M
  • Jan 2008Series C$12M
  • Nov 2005Series B$14M
Founders & team
Dr. Lawrence RobertsFounder & CEO
Investors
Advanced Technology Ventures, DFJ, ArrowPath Venture Capital, Argon Venture Partners
#8
Seed · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2024
$500Kraised
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Developer of AI-powered debugging notebooks designed to accelerate incident resolution. It enables software engineers to investigate and resolve incidents faster through AI-powered debugging notebooks that analyze telemetry data. The platform executes natural language runbooks for on-call and incident response, providing faster incident resolution and reduced downtime. It automates issue discovery and debugging, helping teams streamline incident response processes.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 683 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • 2024Seed$500K
Founders & team
Bharath BhatCo-Founder & CEOSimranjit SinghCo-Founder & CTOTim SeagerCo-Founder & Product & GTM
Investors
Y Combinator
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGodaddyGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiLinkedin Insight Tag
#9
Acquired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2013 · 22 employees
$22.1Mraised
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OpsClarity platform maintains an Operational Knowledge Graph of the application infrastructure which includes information about the set of hosts and containers, and the services that run on them. OKG automatically configures agents with the set of plugins to collect data from the services. Anomaly detection engine automatically baselines metrics, and identifies regions where a metric behaves in an anomalous manner.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2015Series A$11M
  • Dec 2014Series A$11.1M
Investors
New Enterprise Associates, AME Cloud Ventures, Morado Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Milliways Ventures, Inspovation Ventures
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpYoast SeoGoogle Font ApiCloudflare
#10
Series B · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2012 · 49 employees
$20.8Mraised
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Cloud based platform offering application performance management solutions. It monitors the use of CPU, memory, disk I and O, and network for every job and task, by user or group in a multi-tenant cluster in real time. It provides tools to easily prioritize tasks or diagnose problems and automatically maintain SLAs. It claims to improve cluster throughput by 30 to 50 percent. It is an alternative to Apache Ambari in a Hadoop cluster and complements the Hadoop scheduler and resource manager.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 4.9% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2015Series B$15.8M
  • Sep 2014Series A$5M
  • Series A—
Founders & team
Chad CarsonCo-Founder
Investors
Sri Venkataramana Degree College, Signia Venture Partners, Wing Venture Capital, Citi Ventures, Morado Ventures, Webb Investment Network
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpContact Form 7Yoast Seo PremiumNginx
#11
Acqui-Hired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 1999
$21.8Mraised
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Developer of software applications for maintaining Linux computer systems. The company's product, Aduva OnStage, is a life-cycle management application which is used to detect, analyze, and resolve any deviation, conflicts or drift from compliance. The application ensures security and system compliance in supporting the build, test, stage, deployment, and production stages.

Founders & team
Zev Ladermanex - Chairman & CEO
Investors
BMC Software, Intel, Capital Group, CAP Ventures, Qumra Capital
#12
Acquired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2014 · 19 employees
$15Mraised
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Neumob provides VPN for mobile internet use. Its VPN was used in markets where phone plans are expensive and prohibitive for mobile internet use. However, company got shutdown in early 2017 as the business became unsustainable as many new customers started using the product. Company was then acquired by Cloudflare in Nov 2017 to enter into VPN market. Cloudflare plans to relaunch the VPN product to consumers for free.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2015Series A$12.7M
  • May 2015Seed$2.3M
Investors
Accel, Menlo Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Shasta Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Lightbank

Funding & investor landscape

$903.5Mtotal disclosed funding
18companies funded
44disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
AME Cloud Ventures2 rounds
Accel2 rounds
Felicis Ventures2 rounds
Icon Ventures2 rounds
Morado Ventures2 rounds
New Enterprise Associates2 rounds
Plug and Play Tech Center2 rounds
Shasta Ventures2 rounds
Sutter Hill Ventures2 rounds
500 Global1 rounds

Notable founders

Rajeev Thakur
Co-Founder & CTO · RapidFort
Mehran Farimani
Co-Founder & CEO · RapidFort
David Welch
Founder · Infinera
Nishant Modak
Co-Founder & CEO · Last9
Dr. Lawrence Roberts
Founder & CEO · Anagran
Bharath Bhat
Co-Founder & CEO · Relvy
Simranjit Singh
Co-Founder & CTO · Relvy
Chad Carson
Co-Founder · Pepperdata
Zev Laderman
ex - Chairman & CEO · Aduva
Shridhar Venkatraman
Co-Founder · OpsCruise
Bill Beckett
CSO & Founder · Saisei
Chandy Nilakantan
Co-Founder & CTO · FogLogic
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 10,028,795 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of IT Operations coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many IT Operations companies are there in Sunnyvale, United States?
Radar tracks 33 indexable IT Operations companies headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by IT Operations companies in Sunnyvale, United States?
The IT Operations companies in Sunnyvale, United States on this list have raised a combined $903.5M in disclosed equity funding across 18 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded IT Operations company in Sunnyvale, United States?
Clumio is the highest-funded IT Operations company in Sunnyvale, United States, with $261M in disclosed equity funding.
How many IT Operations companies in Sunnyvale, United States are funded?
18 of the 33 IT Operations companies in Sunnyvale, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many IT Operations unicorns are there in Sunnyvale, United States?
1 IT Operations company in Sunnyvale, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Sunnyvale, United States IT Operations companies?
The most active investors in Sunnyvale, United States IT Operations companies on this list include AME Cloud Ventures, Accel, Felicis Ventures, Icon Ventures, Morado Ventures.
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