Tintri Raises $75 Million With Total Now Reaching $135 million

Tintri, Inc. has closed an oversubscribed $75 million Series E funding round led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture, Menlo Ventures and NEA.

The new funding brings the company’s total capital raised to $135 million and puts the industry’s only application-aware storage pioneer on-track for a future initial public offering.

The funding will accelerate continued global expansion and technology innovation as well as help the company further scale operations and support its rapidly growing customer base.

Tintri also announced that Jeff Horing, co-founder and MD of Insight Venture Partners has joined the Tintri board of directors.

“We meet with thousands of companies each year, selecting a handful to invest in,” said Horing. “Tintri stands out as a company that has turned a bold thought-leading vision into an exceptional market-leading product. We are pleased to partner with Tintri to help the company scale and make application-aware storage ubiquitous in the data centre and the cloud.”

“Much has been said about how flash is the disruptive technology in the storage industry these days,” said David Cheriton, a Tintri investor who is also renowned as one of the earliest investors of Google and VMware. “Flash is great, but it’s only one of the ingredients to making storage more useful to end-users. Far more important is whether flash-powered storage has the intelligence to make applications run better. This is where the Tintri application-aware storage is in a league of its own. As the only application-aware storage platform, Tintri storage is intelligent, self-learning and adaptive to the needs of the virtualised applications it supports.”

Since launch, Tintri has consistently exceeded triple digit growth year over year and has an expanding global enterprise customer base of hundreds of companies, close to half of which have revenues of $1 billion or more. The company completed 2013 with 115% year over year growth while more than doubling its enterprise customer base worldwide.  

Tintri achieved 99.999%  uptime in 2013.

With a 330% increase in number of VMs in one year, customers have deployed more than 100,000 VMs.

Storing more than 7PB of user data, these VMs are running large scale private cloud deployments, business critical databases, enterprise applications and VDI environments that host tens of thousands of desktops and mobile devices.

Additionally, close to 70% of Tintri customers made repeat purchases averaging 2.5x of their initial order.

“We are honored to be partnering with such a high-quality investor group that has previously invested in category setting companies such as Box, Salesforce.com and Twitter,” said Ken Klein, chairman and CEO, Tintri. “It’s our strong belief that applications drive business and infrastructure exists only to support applications. The concept of application-aware storage goes way beyond merely replacing some disks with flash. As more customers discover the yellow brick road to freeing them from traditional storage or generic flash solutions, there is no going back. For Tintri customers, the unmistakable passion they have expressed for our products borderlines NPS perfection. With the additional funding, we are excited to offer our solutions to an ever larger audience.”

Tintri is expanding its global presence and establishing operations in numerous new countries. In a separate announcement, Tintri and the Victorian Government in Australia announced the company’s new Australian HQs in Melbourne.

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