Minio Raises $3.3M in Seed Funding
Summary
Minio, the Woodside, CA-based startup behind Minio, an open source distributed object storage software, raised $3.3M in seed funding.The round was led by General Catalyst and Nexus Ventures with participation from Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Index Ventures, Mark Leslie, Brian Stevens, Ben Golub, Lanham Napier and Andrew Feldman.Founded in November 2014 by Anand Babu Periasamy, Harshavardhana, Frederick Kautz and Garima Kapoor, Minio enables application developers to build their own cloud storage and scale to millions of users.Application developers can access hosted Minio server at http://play.minio.io:9000 for testing and development.It is API compatible with Amazon S3 storage service.
Funding
Amount
$3.3M
Total raised
Date
June 17, 2015
Announcement date
Investors
General Catalyst, AME Cloud Ventures
Lead investors
Company
http://www.minio.io
Funded company
Classifications
industries
No industries detected
applications
Networking and Cloud
AskAI Classifications
Labels
Cloud Storage
Object Storage
SaaS
Linked Companies
MinIO, Inc.
$1M to $5M