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Skyera Funding Round

Skyera, based in San Jose, received $51.6 million in investment from Dell Technologies Capital and Western Digital.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
2/22/2013
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$51,600,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Dell Technologies Capital (Lead Investor) (James Lussier)

Western Digital

Proceeds Purpose
The investment will be used to accelerate the integration of the latest-generation flash technology and drive broader adoption of Skyera's enterprise solid-state storage solutions.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Storage
Mailing Address
1704 Automation Parkway
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
Email Address
Overview
Skyera Inc. is an emerging provider of enterprise solid state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems.
Profile
Skyera LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Skyera Company Twitter Account
Company News
Skyera News
Facebook
Skyera on Facebook
YouTube
Skyera on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Frankie Roohparvar
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Chief Technical Officer
Radoslav Danilak
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Co-Founder
Rod Mullendore
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VP - Bus. Development
Farshid Tabrizi
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VP - Finance
Mitch Nishi
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VP - Operations
Ken Tan
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VP - Sales
Dave Ferretti
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