Coho Data is a technology company.
Coho Data has raised $65.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Coho Data has raised $65.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Coho Data is a technology company that develops scale-out storage solutions inspired by public cloud economics, delivering high-performance primary storage for enterprise VMware/ESX environments using commodity hardware and software-defined networking (SDN).[1][2] Its flagship product, the Datastream 1000 appliance, starts with 40TB capacity (including 3.2TB flash), 180,000 IOPS, and scales modularly via microarrays managed by an OpenFlow controller, offering linear performance scaling, twice the price/performance of all-flash arrays, and 18x the performance of traditional storage.[1] Targeting mid-to-enterprise businesses, it solves bottlenecks in legacy storage from vendors like NetApp, EMC, and HP by embedding storage intelligence in the network and optimizing for Intel PCIe flash, with direct sales and select VAR distribution.[1]
Founded in 2011 (as Convergent.io), the company raised $10M Series A and $25M Series B from Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Partners, employing about 40 people across Sunnyvale, CA HQ and Vancouver development.[1]
Coho Data emerged in 2011 as Convergent.io, founded by a team including CTO and co-founder Andy Warfield, who brought expertise in storage and networking challenges.[3][4] Warfield's background addressed enterprise storage pain points like performance bottlenecks and scalability limits in traditional systems, drawing inspiration from public cloud models to build rack-scale converged infrastructure using SDN and software-defined storage (SDS).[2][5] Early traction came via $10M Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz in 2012, rebranding to Coho Data, followed by $25M Series B with the same lead and Ignition Partners.[1] Pivotal moments included unveiling the Datastream architecture, optimized for VMware with NFS data paths for low-latency, high-bandwidth access, and forward-looking protocol innovations.[1][4]
Coho Data rode the early 2010s wave of software-defined everything (SDN/SDS), challenging monolithic storage giants amid the shift to cloud economics, flash adoption, and VMware virtualization dominance.[1][2][5] Timing was ideal post-2011, as enterprises sought on-premises private cloud scalability without public cloud lock-in, leveraging commodity hardware and Intel Xeon/PCIe flash for big data analytics.[1][6] Market forces like rising IOPS demands and cost pressures favored its innovations, influencing the ecosystem by pioneering network-embedded storage intelligence and inspiring scale-out alternatives to EMC/NetApp.[1][3] It contributed to SDN/SDS maturation, enabling BI from big data while bridging legacy apps to future protocols.[4][6]
Coho Data positioned itself as a disruptor in enterprise storage with SDN-driven scale-out, but search data caps at ~2013-2014, suggesting limited visibility on later trajectory—possibly acquisition, pivot, or fade amid intensifying competition from Pure Storage, Nutanix, and cloud natives.[1][2] Next could involve expanding beyond NFS/VMware to multi-protocol support, AI-driven tiering, or hybrid cloud integrations, shaped by flash price drops and edge computing trends.[4] Its influence may evolve through alumni impact (e.g., Warfield's expertise) or tech lineage in modern disaggregated storage, tying back to its core promise: cloud-like economics without compromise.[3][5]
Coho Data has raised $65.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Coho Data's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, ClimacticVC, Craft Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, Heavybit, Ignition Partners, Khosla Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, March Capital, Next47, North Bridge.
Coho Data has raised $65.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $30.0M Series C in May 2015.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2015 | $30.0M Series C | Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, ClimacticVC, Craft Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, Heavybit, Ignition Partners, Khosla Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, March Capital, Next47, North Bridge, SciFi VC, Sterling Equity, True Ventures, Biz Stone, Marc Benioff, Michael Birch | |
| Nov 1, 2013 | $25.0M Series B | Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, ClimacticVC, Craft Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, Heavybit, Ignition Partners, Khosla Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, North Bridge, SciFi VC, True Ventures, Biz Stone, Marc Benioff, Michael Birch | |
| Aug 1, 2012 | $10.0M Series A | Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Khosla Ventures, SciFi VC, Marc Benioff, Michael Birch |