Who will be the next EMC? A tour of financing for 32 storage startups!

The storage market has been stable for many years, and the top six vendors in the market are stable. However, in recent years, with flash memory becoming the biggest innovation point in the storage field, A large number of storage start-ups have started to rise and attracted the attention of a large amount of capital. To some extent, the financing event can determine whether the capital is optimistic about the storage industry and Storage Start-ups. Perhaps the next EMC will be created by many storage start-ups. Lists the landmark financing events of the most representative 32 storage startups in the current storage market, showing the financing time and financing quota of the 32 companies (from left to right in chronological order, the Length indicates the amount of financing, in the unit of millions of dollars .) .

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These 32 storage and storage companies currently have invested $2.6 billion in total, mainly in flash, object storage, and data management, full-flash array vendor purestorage, fusion system vendor nutanix, Object Storage vendor cleversafe, and data replication vendor actifio are typical representatives of these startups. Purestorage and nutanix are among the top financial lines of all vendors, with US $0.47 billion and US $0.312 billion respectively.

In the classic financing model of storage startups, storage manufacturers often need to go through four rounds of financing, and each round of financing is larger than the previous scale, usually ending with an IPO or acquisition, in this process, the VC can generally get a return of four to five times, and the storage company has already had a self-survival ability and a clear profit path at this stage. If a storage company has more than four rounds of financing, You need to analyze the market situation and performance of the company. If the financing scale decreases, it will give people doubts about their growth in the market.

In fact, many storage startups can make excellent products and gain a certain market share and market awareness. However, they still need to face fierce competition from their respective fields of expertise, taking the flash field as an example, fusion-Io and vilinmemory are the most shining stars in the past few years. After going public, they are facing increasing competition pressure from traditional vendors such as EMC, the performance was weak, while companies such as verident and whiptail chose to invest directly in large manufacturers before the IPO.

Currently, from the perspective of product innovation and development, purestorage and nuntanix are considered to be the most promising vendors to subvert the traditional landscape, but do pure and nutanix investors have enough foresight and patience to witness their growth? Let's stay tuned! (Click the original article link)

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Who will be the next EMC? A tour of financing for 32 storage startups!