Komprise

About Komprise

Komprise, Inc. operates as a provider of analytics-driven unstructured data management and mobility solutions. The company was founded in 2014 by Kumar Goswami, Krishna Subramanian, and Michael Peercy, a team of serial entrepreneurs with extensive experience in distributed computing and data management. Their collective background, which includes leadership roles at companies like Citrix and HP, and successful ventures such as Kaviza (acquired by Citrix), informed their approach to solving the challenges of explosive unstructured data growth. The founders identified a critical market gap for a storage-agnostic platform that could provide insights into data across disparate systems without creating vendor lock-in.

Komprise's business model is centered on a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, serving enterprises in data-intensive sectors such as life sciences, healthcare, financial services, and media. The company's revenue is generated through recurring fees for its data management suite, which helps organizations significantly reduce storage, backup, and cloud costs—often by over 70%. The platform operates by analyzing data across a client's entire storage ecosystem—including on-premises NAS, file servers, and multi-cloud environments—to identify 'hot' and 'cold' data based on usage, age, and other policies set by the user. This allows clients to make informed decisions about data placement.

The core of Komprise's offering is its Intelligent Data Management platform. A key feature is the patented Transparent Move Technology (TMT), which allows cold data to be moved to more cost-effective secondary storage, such as cloud object storage, without disrupting user or application access. The data remains accessible as files from the original location while existing in its native format in the cloud, a concept Komprise calls file-object duality. Other features include a Global File Index for searching across petabytes of data, Elastic Data Migration for accelerated and reliable data transfers, and Smart Data Workflows to automate the curation and delivery of data to AI and machine learning pipelines. The platform is storage-agnostic, partnering with major cloud and storage vendors like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, HPE, NetApp, and IBM, ensuring it can operate across heterogeneous IT infrastructures. Since its inception, the company has raised a total of $85 million over four funding rounds, with the latest being a $37 million Series C round in January 2023.