UltiHash Secures $2.5 Million

Founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, CA, UltiHash, Inc., in high-performance and sustainable storage solution, raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding.

The round was led by Inventure, with participation from PreSeedVentures, Tiny VC, Futuristic VC, The Nordic Web, Antti Karjalainen, founder, and angel scout for Sequoia Capital, and other private investors.

The start-up is entering a market where data growth is skyrocketing, and the environment is being taxed for the fuel. According to IDC’s Data Storage 2025 report, digital data is expected to reach 175ZB by 2025 with an annual growth rate of 19.2% from 2020 (and each of those zettabytes generates the carbon emissions of roughly two million people every year). This rising tide of data will lift only the boats with the storage to facilitate high-performance applications like process optimization and product development.

Existing storage solutions often force a compromise between high-cost and low-performance, which causes acceleration to become almost impossibly cost-prohibitive. This is a particular challenge for companies working in hybrid cloud infrastructures, where data transfer rates and multi-vendor setups increase complexity. The impact of data goes beyond the business world. Data is drowning more and more of the world’s resources, so UltiHash is cutting down on the environmental toll of data growth by reducing the overall amount of data that needs to be preserved.

To shake up the existing paradigms around storage, the company facilitates data growth without the need for a proportional storage capacity increase. Its technology brings byte-level de-dupe independent of data types to every data infrastructure matching binary fragments per and across datasets from terabytes to exabytes. Its technology is able to decrease companies’ storage needs by up to 50%, helping them save millions on unnecessary storage and network costs; users only store and migrate the data they truly need without compromising speed, thus, breaking the logjam between scalability and affordability that companies face when expanding their data operations.

By condensing the amount of data stored, UltiHash advances the growth of high-performance data-driven applications, such as ML models and AI, business intelligence, product engineering, and more, in a sustainable and cost-effective way. Every byte is fully utilized, and the environmental impact is kept at an absolute minimum.

Rebecka Löthman Rydå, investor at Inventure, added: “We live in a world where the exponential growth of data is looked at as the new oil, but just like oil the negative environmental impacts are becoming substantial. UltiHash leads a tectonic shift in sustainable storage with a solution able to eliminate unnecessary data and highly increase efficiency in your data operations. We are proud to back this ambitious team and support this shift.“

“The exponential increase in storage resources is not sustainable from either a business or environmental perspective,” said Tom Lüdersdorf, co-founder and CEO. “Resource optimization is the only way forward to manage data growth and continuously use data as the lever to solve challenges. In this industry, speed is a must, and we’re here to make hot storage resource-efficient.“