Do You Know Stealthy Storage Start-Up Cohesity?

Based in Santa Clara, CA, and founded in 2013, new stealth mode enterprise storage start-up Cohesity, Inc. only stated on its web site: “We are a group of passionate individuals working together to bring innovation to the storage landscape. Our group has employees from renowned companies such as Google, VMware, Oracle, Netflix, Aster Data, Nutanix and others in the heart of Silicon Valley.”

The company is supported financially by VCs Sequoia Capital and Wing Ventures.

 Founder and CEO Mohit Aron is passionate about building scalable products and services. He led the design and implementation of distributed systems at several major companies. He is the founder and former CTO of Nutanix where he worked for three years. He was the principal architect at Aster Data (acquired by Teradata) and one of the people who built the Google File System at Google. Formerly he was at Zambeel, IBM Research in Hawthorne, New York, and DEC Western Research Lab, Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from Rice University, and BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

In an email, he wrote: “We’re in stealth and therefore not yet ready to talk openly about our company.”