PALO ALTO, Calif., – January 15, 2019 — /BackupReview.info/ — Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management Company, today announced a $261 million Series E investment at a $3.3 billion valuation with new investor Bain Capital Ventures, and with strong participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, and IVP. This brings total equity raised to more than $553 million.
Photo of Founders of Rubrik: Sitting (L to R) – Arvind Nithrakashyap, CTO; Arvind Jain, VP of Eng’g; Standing (L to R) – Soham Mazumdar, Architect; Bipul Sinha, CEO
“Rubrik has won the trust and loyalty of large enterprise customers around the globe by offering a simple and reliable solution that solves the challenge of protecting and managing data in a hybrid cloud world,” said Enrique Salem, former CEO at Symantec and Partner at Bain Capital Ventures. “When we met Bipul, we were instantly impressed with his vision as well as the skill and tenacity of his team. Given my experience leading the largest enterprise data protection company, we are confident that Rubrik is positioned to win and be the market leader in enterprise cloud data management.”
“Our previous fundraising in 2017 was focused on global expansion and increasing our reach into the enterprise market. Now, with thousands of customers around the world, industry-leading customer satisfaction ratings, and numerous analyst and industry awards, we have customers asking us to solve new challenges,” said Bipul Sinha, Co-founder and CEO at Rubrik. “This new capital will speed the introduction of exciting new products in 2019 that will solve those customer challenges and significantly expand our strategic footprint in the enterprise.”
Rubrik will use the new funding for general corporate purposes, continued future innovation and to support the launch of major new products planned for 2019. These new products will further capitalize on the sweeping enterprise transition to public cloud and the explosion of data. IDC estimates the overall data management market spend at $48 billion. Rubrik will also expand investment in go-to-market activities with the Company’s partners including: Microsoft, Cisco, AWS, SAP, Nutanix, Oracle, VMware, Google Cloud, Pure Storage, and others.
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“Rubrik has differentiated itself as the industry pioneer and leader in the large and growing cloud data management market at an unprecedented speed,” said Ravi Mahtre, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. “We believe Rubrik will fundamentally change the way enterprise IT operates over the next decade. That’s why it is one of the capstone investments in Lightspeed’s global portfolio.”
“In less than five years, Rubrik has delivered on its vision to simplify how businesses around the world keep and use their data, resulting in unprecedented growth,” said Asheem Chandna, Partner at Greylock Partners. “We’re proud to continue to closely partner with Rubrik on their journey ahead, towards continued rapid business scaling and further extending their leadership position in cloud data management.”
Resources
[PRESS RELEASE] Rubrik Announces Andes 5.0 Release, Enabling Global Enterprises to Protect, Automate, and Govern Mission-Critical Applications and Data Across Hybrid Clouds
[PRODUCT VIDEO] Introducing Rubrik Andes 5.0
[PRESS RELEASE] Rubrik Launches Polaris, the Industry’s First SaaS Platform for Data Management Applications
[CUSTOMER VIDEO] Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Saves Time and Drives Automation with Rubrik
About Rubrik
Rubrik delivers a single software platform to manage and protect data in the cloud, at the edge, and on-premises. Enterprises choose Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management software to simplify backup and recovery, accelerate cloud adoption, and enable automation at scale. As organizations of all sizes adopt cloud-first policies, they rely on Rubrik’s Polaris SaaS platform to unify data for security, governance, and compliance. For more information, visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter.
About Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures partners with disruptive founders to accelerate their ideas to market. The firm invests from seed to growth in startups driving transformation across industries, from security and cloud infrastructure to logistics and e-commerce to finance and healthcare. The firm has helped launch and commercialize more than 240 companies, including DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, Rent the Runway, SendGrid, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, TellApart and Turbonomic. Bain Capital Ventures has $4.9 billion in assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Palo Alto. Follow the firm via LinkedIn or Twitter.
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