Tech Company Financing Transactions

Avere Systems Funding Round

On 7/11/2012, Avere Systems landed $20 million in Series C funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
7/11/2012
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$20,000,000
Round
Series C
Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Lead Investor) (Christopher Schaepe)

Menlo Ventures (John Jarve)

Norwest Venture Partners (Matthew Howard)

Tenaya Capital (Brian Paul)

Proceeds Purpose
The funding will be used to advance the market penetration of the company's FXT Series Edge filers, which are an integral building block for an Edge-Core architecture for NAS that ensures enterprise IT is best positioned to leverage the performance benefits of Flash, the consolidation benefits of virtualization and the collaborative and economic benefits of the cloud.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Storage
Mailing Address
910 River Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
USA
Email Address
Overview
Avere Systems provides Demand-Driven Storage solutions that dynamically organize data in response to business demand. Our long-term vision is a storage network in which the delivery of data is no longer compromised by residing within the same storage tier as data retention functionality, both within the data center and out into the cloud.
Profile
Avere Systems LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Avere Systems Company Twitter Account
Company News
Avere Systems News
Facebook
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YouTube
Avere Systems on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Ronald Bianchini
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Chief Financial Officer
John Dean
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Chief Technical Officer
Michael Kazar
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VP - Bus. Development
Mike McMahon
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VP - Customer Service
Jeffrey Butler
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VP - Engineering
David Stephenson
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VP - Marketing
Rebecca Thompson
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VP - Sales
Chris Bowen
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