Silk Platform
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Dani Golan (Founder, CEO) |
| Products | Silk Platform |
| Website | www |
Silk is a technology company headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, United States. The company has offices in Boston and Israel.
History
[edit]CEO Dani Golan founded Silk in 2008. Originally called Kaminario, after the Japanese god of lightning. The company was a flash storage start-up.
The company's first venture capital funding round was announced in May 2011 with a $15 million investment from Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Pitango Venture Capital.[1] Silk received $25 million in series D funding in June 2012 from Tenaya Capital and existing investors. In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a series E round from Lazarus Hedge Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, and existing investors.[2][3][4]
In 2017, the company evolved to focus purely on storage software in a Storage as a Service model. It partnered with Tech Data[5] to offer customers inexpensive hardware to run their storage software on.
In 2020, the company rebranded itself as Silk.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory T. Huang (May 2, 2011). "Kaminario Collects $15M for Storage Grid". Xconomy. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ Jordan Novet (December 2, 2014). "With this $53M, flash storage startup Kaminario will keep challenging incumbents". Venture Beat. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ "Newton storage firm Kaminario raises another $15M, bringing total funding to $143M". Boston Business Journal. January 22, 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ Michael Davidson (January 22, 2015). "$68M Round Puts Kaminario Back in the Flash Data Storage Mix". Xconomy. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ Todd R. Weiss (July 1, 2019). "Kaminario Delivers Storage as a Service Through Tech Data Deal". Channel Partners.
- ^ "Kaminario Announces Company Name Change to Silk". Business Insider. July 6, 2020.