Alluxio Closed $8.5 Million in Series B

Alluxio, Inc., developer of software system that unifies data at memory speed, announced that it has closed $8.5 million in series B funding led by Seven Seas Partners with participation from existing investor Andreessen Horowitz, bringing the total funding raised to date to $16 million.

Jack Xu, managing partner, Seven Seas, joins the company’s board of directors. The former president and CTO of China Internet giant SINA, he brings more than two decades of Internet and enterprise computing experience to Alluxio, including stints as corporate VP at Cisco and VP of engineering and research at eBay.

“Alluxio has developed core technologies for the next era of real-time computing, making it possible to run workloads anywhere – on premises or across public clouds at petabyte scales of data,” he said. “This breakthrough, allowing the separation of computing and storage and bringing economies of scale for massive datasets, creates new business opportunities that we believe will transform a wide range of industries.”

In addition, Veritas founder and former CEO Mark Leslie joined the investment round and will serve as a board observer.

“Alluxio has enjoyed tremendous early customer traction and shows the critical qualities of what I call an ‘opportunity-driven’ organization,” he said Leslie who served on a range of public and private boards, including Pure Storage, NetApp, Nutanix. “The key to enduring growth is strategic transformation and I am excited to help the leadership team at Alluxio to accelerate growth and embrace the challenges and rewards of building a true opportunity-driven business.”

Alluxio is pioneering a new era of unifying data for powering modern data-driven applications and workloads like real-time analytics and machine learning that have been consistently growing in scale, with its technology in production at some of the world’s largest financial services companies, e-commerce destinations and more, including Alibaba, Baidu, Barclays, Comcast, Development Bank of Singapore, ESRI, JD.com, Lenovo, Oracle, Paypal, Tencent and Wells Fargo.

“Alluxio is seeing incredible momentum, developing into a mature platform used in production by thousands of organizations, and that’s allowing us to attract world-class leadership and investment,” said Haoyuan Li, CEO and founder. “Companies from all sectors are looking to evolve their data architecture to enable real-time data analytics at massive scale. With this new funding, we’ll be able to accelerate the development of Alluxio and expand the platform to enable all new classes of workloads.”