Founders: Rob Mason & Andres Rodriguez
Founding: 2008
Mission: Unifying file storage through a single cloud solution
Employees: 400 & 60% Local
Workplace: Flexible
Stage & Capital Raised: Late Stage & $200M+ raised
Investors: Flybridge Capital, Goldman Sachs, North Bridge Venture Partners, Sixth Street Growth, Telstra Ventures
Key Customers: Alcoa, CBRE, ETrade, Electronic Arts, Mattel, Pwc, Western Digital, Williams Sonoma
Glassdoor Rating: 4.0
Valuation (estimated): $500M+, latest fundraise press release here
^ this is a useless number. There is no tangible valuation until the business is sold or goes public. Don’t forget it!
Nasuni is building a cloud native NAS (network attached storage) software platform. This late stage scale up helps large enterprises store & organize all of their data in a simplified, scalable way. Think of traditional network attached storage as a digital filing cabinet. When the cloud migration came, all the bits broke loose.
Nasuni was founded in 2008 by two former Hitachi colleagues Rob Mason & Andres Rodriguez. Rob served as the VP of Engineering and Andres as their CTO. Andres realized that just moving files to the cloud from on premise wouldn’t suffice. The file system (our digital filing cabinets) would need to migrate efficiently too. The initial team set out to build the world’s first cloud-native global file system, UniFS®, with enterprise scale capabilities to bring together isolated silos of file storage into a single digital location. “NAS Unified” = Nasuni!
In the almost 15 years since, a lot has changed. But a lot hasn’t. The cloud is still growing considerably fast. Nasuni is focused on disrupting the $15 billion enterprise NAS and $48 billion backup markets with an award-winning product customers love.
Companies have their core cloud storage relationships with AWS, Google Cloud & Microsoft Azure and Nasuni helps with componentizing and building the system to organize their data center. They help enterprises consolidate NAS & file silos, handle backup, data recovery, and collaboration in a single solution.
Customers can save up to 50% on costs compared to traditional file storage & data protection infrastructure boosting employee productivity, collaboration, and access speed. Their flagship File Data Platform offering leads with scalability, security, and speed across various public (and private) cloud environments. Powered by more than 30 patents, there are also plenty of add-on services like Ransomware protection and access & collaboration tools.
Nasuni has positioned themselves as the cloud-native replacement for traditional network attached storage (NAS) and file server infrastructure. Organizations in more than 70 countries rely on Nasuni to easily access and share file data globally, making management easy and flexible, without changes to apps or workflows. Synchronized access to file data everywhere ensures user productivity by supporting remote and hybrid work. By leveraging object storage, data is consolidated and optimized for content intelligence tools and AI workflows.
Nasuni customers span across industries like manufacturing, construction, technology, oil and gas, financial services, and the public sector. The team services numerous Fortune 500 enterprises, 25+ industry leaders, and 10,000+ locations with 27 billion files under management.
In 2022 the company surpassed $100M in ARR & 50%+ y/y customer growth, announced new integrations with Microsoft Sentinel, expanded partnership with solutions provider Presidio, and brought on additional leadership resources to help meet the growing needs of the business. Fortune magazine also named Nasuni as one of the 2023 Best Workplaces in Technology
Operators to Know (Locally):
- Christopher Arnold, Technical Software Engineering Manager
- Anne Blanchard, Senior Director Product and Customer Marketing
- Parrish Blaszka, Senior Director, Corporate Marketing
- Mrinalini Chavan, Engineering Manager
- Emily Carlucci Cody, Director, People Operations
- Kristin Concannon, Senior Public/Analyst Relations Manager
- Bob Curley, Senior Director of Engineering
- Matthew DeJohn, Director of Global Customer Support
- Tom Effler, Assistant Controller
- Stevie Farmer, Sales Operations Manager
- Leigh FitzGerald, Sr Manager of Customer Success
- Justin Gallo, Director, Account Management
- Tony Goodnough, Sr Director of Finance, Strategy & Operations
- Jenn Haskell, Director of Sales Enablement and Training
- Sheetal Kochavara, Director of Product Management
- Preeti Krishnan, Senior Director, Customer Experience
- Ryan de la Parra, Senior Manager, Channel and Alliance Marketing
- Dmitri Poustovalov, Director of Engineering
- Jim Plummer, Director of Platform Engineering
- Michael Shepanski, Software Engineering Director
- Jay Tolla, Engineering Manager
- Brian Viscariello, Director of Revenue
- Jack Vorwald, Tech Lead, Principal Software Engineer
My investigative powers continue to need work so apologies to the Nasuni team I know I missed many up & coming operators internally
Key Roles To Be Hired:
- Principal Software Engineer – Platform
- Technical Account Manager
- Sales Development Manager
- Sales Manager, Commercial
If I were interviewing here are some questions I’d ask:
- What are the key strategic growth areas for 2024?
- What are the biggest challenges in the marketplace headed into next year?
- What is the long term vision for the company?
- What are the most important roles you’ll be looking to add in 2024 // teams that need the most help?
We’re optimizing for readability here so to learn more about Nasuni you’ll have to D.Y.O.R. I’m excited to watch this team bring more storage environments into the cloud. All knowledge workers applaud your efforts. See you around town!