All Storage Start-Ups Historically Known So Far: 1,056, and 508 Alive

Here we are reporting on how many storage start-ups were born each year from 1966 to 2021.

At this time, we discovered no one in 2022.

Note that, for the most recent years, there will be more than that as others are up to know unknown because they are currently in stealth mode and didn’t reveal their existence.

97 is the record number of emergences of new start-ups, in 2010. Later, since 2013, this number constantly decreased as it’s clear that there are less and less dramatic advancements in storage able to revolutionize this business.

The total number of storage star-ups discovered is 1,056, including 45 where born date is unknown, explaining why only 1,011 are listed below.

Start Ups All

(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)

From which countries?
Not surprising, the large majority (75%) is born in USA, historically the country of storage.

Country	Number	%
USA	792	75%
France	43	4%
UK	36	3%
Canada	35	3%
Israel*	31	3%
China	13	1%
Belgium	12	1%
Switzerland	9	0.8%
Germany	9	0.8%
Australia	8	0.8%
India	8	0.8%
Others	60	5%
Total	1,056	100%

* Several start-ups were funded in Israel but transferred HQs in USA
(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)

By business when known

Business	Number	%
Software	533	56%
Hardware	331	35%
Fundamental technology	47	5%
Infiniband	19	2%
Security	14	1%
Total	944	100%

Some companies are listed in more than one category
(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)

Among the 1,058 known storage start-ups, only 508 are alive, more of them with no future or hoping for an acquirer or an eventual rare IPO:

Situation	Number	%
Remaining start-up	508	48%
Acquired	321	30%
Closed	191	18%
Public via IPO	36	3%
Total	1,056	100%

(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)

All start-ups known so far born in 2020

Name (HQs)	Web	CEO	Total investment ($)	Business
Ionir (Tel Aviv, Israel)	ionir.com	Mike Wall		cloud native storage and data platform for Kubernetes; formerly Reduxio Systems
GRAID Technology (Santa Clara, CA)	graidtech.com	Leander Yu	18	NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card
Tsecond (San Jose, CA)	tsecond.us	Sahil Chawla	4.6	technologies that reimagine how enterprises and organizations activate big data to drive insights and innovation, Bryck Portable Media Device to capture, process, move and store data from anywhere
Speedb (Tel Aviv, Israel)	speedb.io	Adi Gelvan	4	embeddable solution compliant with RocksDB storage engines

(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)

Start-up known so far born in 2021

Name	Web	CEO		Business
Solidigm (San Jose, CA)	solidigmtechnology.com	(Rob) B. Crooke		SSDs, subsidiary of SH hynix following acquisition of Intel