Start-Up’s Profile: Pure Storage

This start-up in stealth mode didn’t answer to our questions, but here what we got about it:

Company
Pure Storage, Inc. (formerly using code name Os76, Inc.)

Headquarters
Mountain View, CA

Founded in
October 2009

Financial funding
$5 million in Series A funding in 2009 and $20 million in Series B in 2010; initial funding came apparently from Sutter Hill Ventures, led by its MD Mike Speiser, this VC formerly investing in several storage companies including Data Domain, Data Robotics, LSI Logic, NetApp and ProStor; other investors are Aneel Bhusri of Greylock Partners and Mark Leslie

Known executives and directors

• Scott Dietzen, CEO: most recently interim SVP, applications at Yahoo!, where he helped look after Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra; joined Yahoo with the acquisition of Web 2.0 and Web 2.0/open source messaging and collaboration start-up Zimbra, where he was president and CTO
• Mike Speiser, executive director: served as a VP and technical advisor to Symantec CEO and chairman John Thompson; previously VP of product marketing and product management at Veritas
• John Colgrove, founder: founding engineer at Veritas where he was behind VxFS File System and VxVM Volume Manager; Symantec fellow and VP of technology strategy for the company’s Data Center Management Group; at the advisory board of ParaScale
• Craig Harmer, founder: founding engineer at Veritas working on VxFS and VxVM and then at Symantec
• Aneel Bhusri, board’s director: former chairman of Data Domain
• Mark Leslie, board’s director: a legend of the storage industry who was the founding chairman and CEO of Veritas; on the board of NetApp and Xsigo

Number of employees
Around 12 and currently hiring an engineering, software and technical staff

Products description
Not known but apparently the company is working on an SSD-based NAS and developing software to enhance the performance and dependability of these storage systems