Pluribus Networks, a Santa Clara, CA-based distributed cloud networking and SDN automation company, raised $20m in funding.
The round was led by investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, which added to existing portfolio of investors, including Ericsson, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Temasek, Menlo Ventures, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Data Collective Venture Capital and Mohr Davidow. Prior to this financing round, Pluribus had raised $125m in funding.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate R&D for multiple new product initiatives along with sales and marketing resources that will further accelerate penetration into the distributed cloud market, while supporting expansion into adjacent sectors.
Led by Kumar Srikantan, president and chief executive officer, Pluribus Networks delivers data center network solutions based on the principles of disaggregation and controllerless SDN automation. The Linux-based Netvisor® ONE operating system and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric™ controllerless SDN software have been purpose built to deliver automated networking along with enhanced economics by leveraging white box switches including the company’s own Freedom™ Series of switches. Pluribus is deployed by more than 350 customers, including more than 100 tier one mobile network operators, in mission critical networks around the globe.
Pluribus software is also available on a variety of high-performance hardware platforms, including Dell EMC PowerSwitch™and Edgecore Networks Open Cloud white box data center switches.
FinSMEs
11/10/2021