$2 Million Seed Round for UK Start-Up StorageOS

StorageOS Ltd., a software start-up providing application-centric and platform-agnostic storage for containers and cloud, announced a $2 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures, an investor in high-growth enterprise start-ups.

The start-up will use the capital infusion to expand global product development, marketing and sales efforts for its storage software.

Enterprise container adoption is rapidly increasing. In this agile, fast-paced container ecosystem, traditional storage cannot keep up with the needs of modern development teams. StorageOS addresses this issue by transforming commodity and cloud-based storage into a full-featured, application-centric storage platform at lower costs and with greater flexibility.

“To fully match the speed and agility of containers and cloud, modern storage needs to be application-centric,” said Salil Deshpande, MD, Bain Capital Ventures. “To realize the cost savings and time-to-market promised by containers, a container-native and application-centric storage solution such as StorageOS is critical.”

StorageOS delivers policy-driven, infrastructure-agnostic storage that integrates with Docker and Kubernetes to deliver enterprise storage features for persistent container workloads. It is simple, extensible, low cost and suitable for a set of enterprise use cases.

“The StorageOS vision is a paradigm shift in storage design and delivery,” said Chris Brandon, CEO, StorageOS. “Storage should be application-centric, platform-agnostic, API-driven, self-managed, agile, secure, performant and consistently available. This investment by Bain Capital Ventures, with its stellar track record of funding some of the most successful enterprise IT start-ups, further proves the requirement for application-centric, enterprise storage for containers and cloud.”

The StorageOS public beta is available.