Start-Up Profile: Aparavi

Company:
Aparavi Software Corporation (name comes from the Latin Apparare, which means to prepare)

HQs:
Santa Monica, CA, 90401

Date founded:
January 10, 2016, out of stealth mode on October 25, 2017

Financial funding:
$3 million seed round from private investor at $30 million valuation.

Main executives:

Chairman Adrian Knapp, was in 1991 one of the founders of Dicom AG (Kofax PLC today), a Swiss VAD for imaging products. Dicom had its IPO on the AIM-London Stock Exchange in 1995. He was also co-founder of COPE AG, a storage system integrator in Central Europe that had a Nasdaq IPO in 1998. Later, he was involved with Mount10, a Swiss-based managed service firm that went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2000. Currently he is on the board of different firms and serves as chairman of NovaStor.
CTO Rod Christensen was previously CTO and VP of engineering at NovaStor. He served as VP of software development at CA, where he oversaw the 250 person team for sustaining engineering for all CA enterprise software, as well as overseeing development of the ARCServe Replication and HA and ERwin Data Modeler products. Prior to CA, he co-founded Yosemite Technologies, acquired by Barracuda Networks
VP of business development Jonathan Calmes started his career an entrepreneur, building and selling surf skateboards. Then he joined NovaStor. After several years he joined the founding team of MobileCause and become the director of customer success overseeing several hundred customer’s mobile fundraising success. For the last three years he has been back at NovaStor in a management role ultimately becoming VP sales.
VP of product management Jay Hill was the founder of CreekLow and previously at Informatica, Applimation, Gamma Enterprise Technologies and SAP.

Number of employees:
Under 20

Technology:
Storage agnostic software as a service for long-term data retention

Product:
A software as a service platform which can easily and affordably be implemented in order to protect organizations data long term leveraging multiple clouds and premises. It uses a web-based interface and patented recovery methods to ensure data is available, accessible and compliant, no matter how many storage locations exist.

Released date:

Soft launch: October 25, 2017
Availability: January 152018

Price:
First terabyte of protected data for free, $0.030/GB/month thereafter (billed monthly or annually) on source data protected

Roadmap:
Expanding certified storage locations, providing tools for true archival, as well as deepening the integration with e-discovery and analytics partners to provide more power to data that is being retained for decades.

Partners:
Wasabi, Multicom Systems, Scality

Distributors and OEMs:
No one up to now

Customers:
15 private beta partners

Applications:
Data protection, multi-cloud storage flexibility, hybrid cloud data protection, compliance, data management

Target market:
Compliance burdened mid-market companies from 50-500 employees.

Competitors:
Include Komprise, Druva, StrongBox Data, Veritas, Arcserve

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