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SolidFire
Creates storage and data management solutions that are designed to help customers accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency
About SolidFire
SolidFire, acquired by NetApp for $870 million in February 2016, specializes in all-flash storage systems designed for next-generation data centers. Founded in 2010, the company addresses the challenges of delivering high-performance applications from multi-tenant infrastructures. SolidFire's solutions offer simple scaling, set-and-forget management, and assured performance, making it a market leader in the rapidly evolving storage sector. The company's architecture includes volume-level Quality of Service (QoS) controls, distributed self-healing, and webscale capabilities, ensuring guaranteed storage performance and seamless scalability. SolidFire serves a diverse range of clients, from large cloud infrastructures to enterprises transitioning to next-gen data centers. The business model focuses on providing scalable, high-performance storage solutions that integrate with cloud frameworks like OpenStack and VMware. Revenue is generated through the sale of storage systems and associated services, leveraging cloud economic models to drive market growth. SolidFire's active participation in the cloud community and its extensive integrated storage management capabilities further enhance its market position.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Acquired
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- Boulder, United States
- Employees
- 77
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 62.6/100
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Sector
- Other B2B Software, Analytics, Data Analytics, Storage, Cloud Services, Data Storage
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACQUISITIONOther financing | Dec 2015 | $870M | $870M | NetApp | — |
| SERIES DOther financing | Oct 2014 | $82M | $328M | Silicon Valley Bank · Greenspring Associates · Standard Treasury | — |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for SolidFire is 360 monthly website visits, up 89.5% over the last three months. SolidFire's team declined 51.9% over the past year.
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Investments and acquisitions
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Novak Biddle Venture Partners
Valhalla Partners
NEA
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
Samsung Ventures
Greenspring Associates
Standard Treasury
Silicon Valley Bank
Other known investors1 additional known investor
NetApp
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
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