Start-Up's Profile: Cerabyte
Summary
Financial funding Public grants (2020) 1,2 million, seed round (2022) 6,5 million by 3 founders, Swiss VC Aeony (company owned by the founders, as investment vehicle for minor investors)Revenue No one yetMain executives They are specialized in material technology, long-term information storage, laser physics, engineering and IT. Christian Pflaum, co-founder and CEONumber of employees 10 FTE at Cerabyte, 20 FTE for Cerabyte at project partnersTechnology Permanent storage without energy and frequent replacement of media, using ceramic-based data carrier and fs-laser matrix for writing and high speed microscope cameras for reading, we are introducing a new storage technology using inorganic nano layers using ceramics that are 50-100 atoms thick to store information protected vs. most storage media threats. The technology roadmap is projected to scale from 100nm to 3nm bit sizes, corresponding to areal densities of GB/cm2 to TB/cm2 class. Laser beam matrices will enable datacenter rack storage densities scaling from initial 10PB systems to 100PB using CeraMemory cartridges (2025-2030) and 1EB using CeraTape (2030-2035).Product description New tier for long-term storage, for cold data, which in fact are 70+% of data in datacenters, as good as never retrieved but stored for decades without intention to be ever deleted, and permanently consuming energy and resources. Form factor is 19-inch rack-size.Cerabyte media technology is leveraging existing production capacities of hundreds of millions of square foot of ultra-thin display glass enabling a media cost scaling path to less than $1/TB by 2030.Price range Eventually 75% less cost than long-term storage on HDDDistributors Partners from Saas, later licensing to hyperscalersApplications Infinite and low cost storage, highly resilient to influences that destroy conventional memory media (water, fire, corrosion, magnetic pulses, etc.
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