Company Profile: Cohesity
Confirming its leadership position in backup and recovery software for enterprises
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 21, 2025 at 2:02 pmCompany name (and legal name):
Cohesity Inc.
HQ and offices:
2625 Augustine Dr, Santa Clara, California, USA
Full location offices list available here
Website:
Cohesity
Date founded:
June 2013
Founders & current leaders:
Mohit Aron, Founder
LinkedIn profile
Mohit has over 20 years of experience in building scalable, high-performance distributed systems, and has been attributed as the father of hyperconvergence. Mohit founded Cohesity in 2013 and has grown the company into a leading provider of next-gen data management. He also co-founded Nutanix as the CTO, now a public company and leader in hyperconverged technology, in 2009. He currently serves as Founder Emeritus.
Sanjay Poneen, CEO and president
LinkedIn profile
Sanjay Poonen joined Cohesity compelled by its leadership in cybersecurity, cloud, and data management.
Previously COO at VMware, where he doubled revenue to $12 billion and spearheaded key cloud partnerships, and President at SAP, Poonen brings a track record of significant growth and strategic vision.
He is driven by Cohesity’s best-in-class technology, protecting Fortune 500 data, and its customer-centric, innovative team, eager to collaborate with founder Mohit Aron to drive further success.
Financial funding:
Backed by Nvidia, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, and Google Cloud. Additional investors can be found on this corporate page.
Employees numbers:
+5,800
Revenue:
Cohesity has become the fastest data protection company to cross $1.5 billion in revenue in the data protection industry, reaching that milestone in 11 years. On a pro forma adjusted basis for the fiscal year ending July 2024, the combined entity had revenue of over $1.7 billion, annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $1.5 billion.
Technology:
Information Technology, Data Security, Data Management, Disaster Recovery
Products:
Cohesity’s Data Platform revolutionizes data management, seamlessly unifying its three core pillars into an AI-powered solution for unparalleled data management.
- Data Protection: protect all data and guarantee recovery
- Data Security: quickly bounce back from any cyber-attack and prevent data theft
- Data Insight: drive growth and profit with unstructured data using GenAI.
It provides extensive capabilities through a large product offering including : Cohesity Data Cloud, Data Protect, Cohesity Gaia, DataHawk, NetBackup, NetBackup Appliances, FortKnox, SmartFiles, IT Analytics.
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Release and Roadmap:
Cohesity’s product roadmap, significantly bolstered by the Veritas acquisition, focuses on delivering a unified, high-speed data management platform. For customers, this means seamless integration of NetBackup and DataProtect onto a single Zero Trust platform, accessible via a unified Helios management console.
The combined engineering teams, the largest of any modern competitor, are rapidly expanding connector capabilities, covering private, public, and SaaS clouds, while driving new innovations. This accelerated innovation also brings advanced security applications like cyber-vaulting and AI-powered data intelligence, ensuring faster recovery, enhanced protection, and simplified data management for all Cohesity and former Veritas clients.
Pricing model and price:
Cohesity’s sales team evaluates each request on a case-by-case basis, providing customized proposals and pricing aligned with the unique requirements and scale of each enterprise.
GTM:
Cohesity’s go-to-market strategy mainly combines direct sales with a robust partner ecosystem, exemplified by its Data Security Alliance, to deliver comprehensive data security and management solutions. This dual approach ensures both direct engagement with customers and broad market reach through strategic alliances that address evolving cyber threats and data complexities.
The Data Security Alliance was founded in November 2022 and counts 21 members, including BigID, Cisco, CyberArk, Mandiant, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, PwC UK, Qualys, Securonix, ServiceNow, Splunk, TCS, and Zscaler.
Customers:
Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500.
Workloads/Use cases/Applications:
- Cloud – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes
- Virtual – VMWare, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV
- Physical – Windows, NAS
- Database – SQL, NoSQL and Hadoop
- SaaS – Microsoft 365, Salesforce
Target market:
Cohesity’s solutions are designed to meet the pressing needs of Commercial, Enterprise, and Global Multi-national clients, enabling them to effectively counter cyber threats, maintain data sovereignty, harness the power of AI, and enhance overall business resilience.
Competition:
Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam, HYCU
Comments
Mohit Aron has worked also for IBM, Zambeel, Google and Aster Data and is, for a long time, focused on scalability and resiliency. He was obviously the original CEO of Cohesity then moved to CTO, CPO and chief strategy position. He currently develops a new startup in stealth mode around AI, no surprise.
Sanjay Poonen has spent some time at Veritas, at that time it was VERITAS Software in 2004, before Symantec move and he continued after the merger until 2006. So we can easily say that he knows for 2 decades the power of Veritas Software and the established and solid market footprint of NetBackup. Coming back in the data protection software segment, he had to look at ti seriously to manage Cohesity's growth and trajectory.
According to Crunchbase, the company has raised $955 million in 10 rounds. And of course the company is listed in the Coldago Research Storage Unicorn for several editions.
Beyond Veritas Technologies, Cohesity has acquired Imanis Data in 2019 in the hype of application data protection a few years ago following Rubrik's acquisition of Datos.IO.
The mission doesn't change it is just confirmed and even more promoted.
During the recent IT Press Tour session, Sanjay Poonen unveiled this slide below that show the progress made since the official date of merger between Cohesity and Veritas, December 10th, 2024.
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The company also has a significant gan AI initiative around GAIA.
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Following the S1 filled confidentially in December 2021, and some difficulties to reach the next step, Cohesity had finally found in with the help of Carlyle and Veritas a new period that immediately means that the company is #1 in enterprise backup and recovery software and we obviously expect now an IPO in the next 18 months depending on market conditions. All of this was possible thanks to a great product and technology foundation and Sanjay Poonen or at least since he joined the company, we saw many events happening...
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