Druva has received $80 million of growth equity funding, bringing the total raised to approximately $200 million. The latest funding investment was led by Riverwood Capital, with strong participation from Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital, and most other existing venture investors. Druva will leverage this late-stage investment to dramatically accelerate research and development, expand go-to-market efforts worldwide, and lead the industry in redefining how enterprises protect, manage, and use their data. Druva’s success is fueled partially by the rapid expansion of the data protection market, with market size expected to be $28 billion in 2022 for both cloud-based and on-premises servers,[1] in addition to the rapid cloud data protection and management adoption by Global 5000 organisations. In May, the company announced its leadership in the cloud server data protection market, realising over 300 percent year-over-year growth in infrastructure data protection revenue. Additionally, Druva Cloud deployments now span more than 4,000 enterprise customers, including 10 percent of the world’s Fortune 500 companies. “Cloud Data Protection and Management solutions are massively disrupting the secondary storage industry,” said Jeff Parks, co-founder and general partner at Riverwood Capital. “Druva delivers an as-a-service protection and management solution for all enterprise data encompassing infrastructure, endpoints, and cloud applications. We are impressed by Druva’s ability to help organisations re-define their data protection and management strategy in a cloud first world leveraging the performance, scale, ease of use and TCO benefits of the public cloud and SaaS. The effectiveness of Druva’s technology has been lauded by a large list of customers. With high customer satisfaction, strong brand loyalty, proven technology innovation and seasoned leadership team, Druva is best positioned to drive the as-a-service transformation of enterprise data protection and management.
“We see today’s digital transformation as a data transformation, and protecting data in today’s cloud connected environment requires a fresh approach,” said Jaspreet Singh, co-founder and chief executive officer at Druva. “Druva’s as-a-service solution eliminates costly and complex infrastructure to quickly and seamlessly protect, govern, and gain intelligence from their data when and where it’s needed.”
Druva Drives High Value with Druva Cloud Platform
Earlier this month, Druva announced the Druva Cloud Platform Tech Preview, which delivers a single-pane-of-glass view for protection and management of endpoints, servers, and cloud applications. The platform converges the award-winning Druva Phoenix and Druva inSync cloud solutions, and offers a unified view into services and data. Simplified global search and centralised visibility and control reduces costs and complexity for managing enterprise data. “With the proliferation of ransomware and the need for governance and compliance around initiatives like GDPR, Druva’s innovations are well positioned to serve this growing market. Druva Cloud Platform is the next generation of cloud data protection and management, completely delivered as a service,” said Milind Borate, co-founder and chief technology officer at Druva. “Druva’s unique, patented technology including time-indexed metadata, global scale-out deduplication, instant access, auto-tiering, and advanced search and analytics are critical capabilities that enable true scale and simplicity for customers that want peace of mind for their businesses critical data.”
