Volterra Raises Over $50M in Funding
Summary
Volterra, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based distributed cloud services company, launched from two years of stealth operations with over $50m in funding to date. Backers included venture capital firms Khosla Ventures, Mayfield and M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), as well as strategic investors/partners Itochu Technology Ventures and Samsung NEXT. Volterra provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and operate applications and data across multi-cloud and edge sites. Within this offering, the company integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers: 1) Fleet-wide management of distributed applications and data across heterogeneous infrastructure 2) Globally distributed control plane with Kubernetes APIs for application orchestration and multi-layer security for workloads and data 3) Comprehensive compute, storage, networking and security for distributed edge locations 4) Secure, high-performance global connectivity across edge sites, private clouds and multi-cloud The distributed cloud platform can be used across three sets of solutions to enable a wide range of use cases: Edge cloud — edge app management, secure edge gateway Multi-cloud — multi-cluster secure mesh, secure Kubernetes gateway, multi-cloud app management, app and network services consolidation Network cloud — application security and acceleration, network edge applications, secure cloud network with DMZ The launch comes during a period of rapid expansion for the company, during which it has grown to 100+ engineers and 30+ global customers.