Zerto is a company.
Zerto has raised $163.0M across 7 funding rounds.
Key people at Zerto.
Zerto has raised $163.0M in total across 7 funding rounds.
Zerto has raised $163.0M in total across 7 funding rounds.
Zerto's investors include 83North, Battery Ventures, CRV, Harrison Metal, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, IVP, Mango Capital, Mayfield, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital Israel.
Key people at Zerto.
Zerto is a data protection and mobility company that builds software for disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and workload mobility across virtualized infrastructures and cloud environments.[2][5][6] Its flagship product, Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR), uses hypervisor-based continuous data protection to enable fast recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs), serving enterprises in sectors like financial services, healthcare, and managed service providers by solving downtime, data loss, and migration challenges in on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud setups.[1][2][5][6] Acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in 2021 for $374 million after raising $183.4 million, Zerto now operates as an HPE subsidiary headquartered in Spring, Texas, with over 2,000 customers worldwide and strong growth in cloud DRaaS, analytics for threat detection, and SaaS backup.[2][3][4][5]
Zerto was founded in 2009 by brothers Ziv Kedem (CEO) and Oded Kedem (CTO), storage industry veterans who previously co-founded Kashya—a continuous data protection startup acquired by EMC in 2006 for $153 million, which became part of EMC's RecoverPoint software.[1][3][4][5] The idea emerged from frustrations with traditional array-based replication's limitations in virtualized environments; Zerto pioneered hypervisor-based replication to simplify disaster recovery for VMware (and later Hyper-V).[1][4][5] ZVR launched in 2011, gaining early traction with backing from VCs like Battery Ventures, 83North, IVP, and USVP; by 2016, it achieved 100% sales growth, 2,200 customers, and a $70 million funding round, though later faced 2020 layoffs amid a shift to backup and cloud.[3][4]
Zerto rides the hybrid/multi-cloud and ransomware surge trends, where enterprises demand resilient IT amid rising cyber threats and cloud migrations—its timing aligned with virtualization's rise post-2009 and cloud adoption in the 2010s.[1][4][5][6] Market forces like exponential data growth, zero-downtime expectations, and DRaaS demand favor its software-only, hypervisor-agnostic approach, which integrates natively and scales without hardware lock-in, influencing ecosystems by becoming the de-facto standard for cloud recovery/migration and enabling "datacenters without boundaries."[3][6] As an HPE asset, it bolsters enterprise IT resilience, powering 2,000+ customers in 38 countries and shifting BC/DR from reactive to proactive.[3][5]
Under HPE, Zerto will likely expand AI-driven analytics, deeper SaaS/multi-cloud integrations, and ransomware recovery amid escalating threats, capitalizing on its CDP leadership for edge computing and sovereign clouds.[1][5][6] Trends like zero-trust architectures and regulated data mobility will shape its path, potentially evolving influence through HPE's hardware-software synergy to dominate IT resilience. This builds on Zerto's foundational innovation in simplifying DR, ensuring uninterrupted technology as cloud complexity grows.[1][6]
Zerto has raised $163.0M across 7 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $33.0M Series F in June 2020.
