Tech Company Financing Transactions

SolidFire Funding Round

Greenspring Global Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Novak Biddle Venture Partners participated in a $82 million Series D capital raise for SolidFire. The funding round was recorded on 10/7/2014.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
10/7/2014
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$82,000,000
Round
Series D
Investors

Greenspring Global Partners (Lead Investor)

New Enterprise Associates (Harry Weller)

Novak Biddle Venture Partners (Philip Bronner)

Samsung Ventures (Jay Chong)

Valhalla Partners (Charles Curran)

Proceeds Purpose
Additional funding allows us to continue to extend SolidFire's technical advantages over the competition and will deepen our sales, marketing and channel enablement to meet the growing global demand for SolidFire's leading all-flash storage architecture.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Storage
Mailing Address
1620 Pearl St. 200
Boulder, CO 80302
USA
Email Address
Overview
Atlanta-based SolidFire is a next-generation storage platform for cloud computing providers and other enterprises that need scalable, reliable storage for thousands of servers. The Company's solution allows customers to take advantage of the performance of solid state storage at a price comparable to traditional spinning disk.
Profile
SolidFire LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
SolidFire Company Twitter Account
Company News
SolidFire News
Facebook
SolidFire on Facebook
YouTube
SolidFire on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
David Wright
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Chief Financial Officer
John Hillyard
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Chief Marketing Officer
James Whitemore
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President
RJ Weigel
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VP - Engineering
Daniel Berg
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VP - Marketing
Jay Prassl
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VP - Product Management
Adam Carter
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VP - Sales
Brian McCloskey
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