Pavilion Data Raises $25 Million in Series C

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc. announced its series C funding of $25 million, bringing the total funding to $58 million.

New investors are Taiwania Capital and RPS Ventures.

All existing investors participated in the round.

The new investment will accelerate the delivery of the company’s NVMe-oF products, expanding to new markets, and growing the team to support customer demand.

“The adoption of NVMe-oF is increasing, and Pavilion provides differentiated technology in this market. Repeat sales and strong customer demand prove that its NVMe-oF platform can bring competitive advantages to large organizations, especially those that rely on analytics and ML,” said Huang Lee, managing partner, Taiwania Capital. “We are pleased to lead this round and look forward to bringing Pavilion to new markets such as Asia where the cloud-scale deployments require an NVMe-oF solution without the complexities and limitations of traditional storage.”

“Here at RPS, we appreciate the opportunity to join forces with Pavilion and the other investors to help the company expand to new verticals and other parts of the world,” said Kabir Misra, managing partner, RPS. “When we decided to invest, we looked at the large, diverse customer base, but also the strong intellectual property. We were equally impressed by its OPENCHOICE business model and how it is changing the way storage is sold today.”

“We are pleased with the series C oversubscribed round of funding and our ongoing customer progress,” said Gurpreet Singh, CEO, Pavilion Data. “In 2019, we have delivered a large number of systems to leading organizations worldwide. Many of these customers are now purchasing additional arrays as they continue to scale out. The platform is used in AI, ML and deep learning workloads spanning IBM Spectrum Scale, MySQL, and NoSQLdatabases, as well as Pivotal Greenplum. We are also providing unification of modern cloud and legacy enterprise applications, including the Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes with persistent K8s, and VMware. We solve their challenges with the immediate benefits of an NVMe-oF system and the procurement flexibility they need through our OPENCHOICE business model.”

Pavilion was just awarded Best of Show – Most Innovative Start-up at FMS 2019. Earlier this year, the company was named an IDC NVMe over TCP Innovator, a CRN Hottest Storage Start-ups to Watch, became first NVMe-oF solution for Spectrum Scale on IBM’s Global Solutions Directory, became a Dell Extended Technologies Partner for direct and channel resale, and was awarded 5 patents for a total of 16 to date.

The company is an active member of NVMexpress, SNIA, STAC Research, and TACC’s STAR Program.

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