Silk

The cloud database visualization platform.

About

Founded

2008

Headquarters

Needham, Massachusetts

Industry

Cloud, Data

Company Description

The Silk Data Virtualization Platform gives demanding workloads 10x faster performance on the cloud compared to native cloud alone. It is a virtualization layer that sits between the underlying cloud infrastructure and customers’ workloads. Without refactoring, workloads such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and industry-specific applications can move onto Google Cloud and Azure while massively improving user experience. Industry leaders in e-commerce, SaaS, FinTech, and healthcare trust Silk with their mission-critical workloads to get the ultra-fast speeds their customers demand.

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Funding

Total Raised

$136 million

Valuation

Undisclosed

Significant Investors

Sequoia Capital, Pitango, Ibex, Globespan, Vintage, S Capital VC, Tenaya Capital

Company Traction

  • Silk’s annual recurring revenue grew 50% in FY2022.
  • Silk’s customers include Optima Health, SimCorp, and WEX Inc.
  • Silk has demonstrated up to 16.4GB per second and 2 million transfers per second from a single Data Pod.
  • Silk won the 2022 Product of the Year Award from Cloud Computing Magazine.

Leadership Team

  • Dani Golan: Co-Founder & CEO of Silk. Former CEO of Kaminario.
  • Tom Murphy: Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Silk. Former CMO at Turbonomic.
  • Adik Sokolovski: Chief R&D Officer at Silk. Former VP of Research and Development at Kaminario.
  • Eran Mann: Chief Architect at Silk. Former Architect at Kaminario.

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