Cash-laden backers chuck $35 MEELLLION into the clouds

Cloud storage gateway, cloudy backup bods net new funding

Venture capitalists have been tossing money into the burgeoning cloud space with a $10m funding boost to cloud storage gateway upstart Nasuni and the chucking of $25m into cloudy backup firm Druva’s burlap sack.

Nasuni’s fresh $10m funding round takes its total funding to $53m. Here’s the funding history from Crunchbase:

• Founded April 2009
• December 2009 – A-round – $8m from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners
• December 2010 – B-round – $15m from North Bridge, Sigma and Flybridge Capital Partners
• October 2012 – C-round – $20m from Sigma, North Bridge and Flybridge
• August 2014 – D-round – $10m Flybridge, North Bridge and Sigma plus a strategic investor

Who is the strategic investor? It could be an existing storage supplier or cloud service provider wanting to keep its head down.

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