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Arcserve
Arcserve has spent more than four decades preparing for the day a company cannot open its own files. Its latest bet is that lean IT teams want one recovery system - with immutable storage, broader virtualization support and a little AI - more than another sprawling security console.
Lightbeam
Lightbeam is a San Jose-based data security and privacy company that converges DSPM, privacy operations, and AI governance into one identity-centric platform. Founded in 2020 by ex-Nutanix engineers, it uses AI to discover, classify, and map sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments, tying each data fragment back to the human it belongs to. Customers in banking, healthcare, insurance, and tech use Lightbeam to automate compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI while cutting data risk and controlling AI exposure through tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Google Gemini.
StoneFly, Inc.
StoneFly, Inc. is a Castro Valley, California enterprise storage company founded in 1996 that helped turn iSCSI into an industry standard - it registered iSCSI.com in March 1996 and shipped one of the first iSCSI storage appliances in 2002. Today it builds NAS, SAN, unified scale-out (USO), backup and disaster-recovery appliances, and cloud storage, all powered by its patented StoneFusion operating system and Air-Gapped Vault immutable, ransomware-resistant technology. A subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory (DNF), StoneFly serves 10,000+ customers from SMBs to Fortune 500 and government - including deployments aboard US Navy Littoral Combat Ships and Virginia-class submarines.
NetApp
NetApp is a San Jose-based data infrastructure company that helps enterprises store, manage, protect and move their data across on-premises systems and every major public cloud. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, it built its business on the ONTAP data management operating system and today sells all-flash storage arrays, cloud storage services and software that increasingly targets AI and machine-learning workloads. A Fortune 500 company trading on the Nasdaq as NTAP, it reported record fiscal-2026 revenue of roughly $6.93 billion.
Upfort
Upfort (formerly Paladin Cyber) is a San Francisco-based platform that unifies turnkey cybersecurity with cyber insurance, making cyber risk easy to manage and simple to insure for small and medium-sized businesses. Its Upfort Shield suite layers AI-driven email and web protection, risk monitoring, and security awareness training, while its insurance arm partners with leading carriers to embed coverage for ransomware, wire fraud, and data breaches - sold through brokers and MGAs rather than direct.
NIC (NIC IT Partner)
NIC, operating as NIC IT Partner, is a Los Angeles-based managed service provider (MSP) that has delivered IT support, cybersecurity, cloud hosting, and backup and disaster recovery since 2002. Built for small and mid-sized businesses across regulated industries - healthcare, legal, finance, construction, and nonprofits - NIC runs a 24/7/365 operation with a tiered technical team, helping clients meet compliance requirements like HIPAA and CMMC while keeping their networks running.
Panzura
Panzura is an enterprise hybrid cloud data management company whose flagship CloudFS turns object storage into a single, global file system - letting distributed teams edit the same files across continents as if they were sitting in the same office. Paired with its Symphony data services platform and the newer Nexus AI connector, Panzura consolidates sprawling unstructured data, defends it against ransomware with immutable storage, and is now positioning that data to feed enterprise AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot.
RackWare
RackWare builds enterprise-grade software that moves and protects workloads across any cloud, virtual, or physical environment. Its flagship RackWare Management Module (RMM) automates migration, disaster recovery, and backup so organizations can shift to the cloud, recover from outages, and avoid vendor lock-in - all from one policy-driven, agentless platform. Founded in 2009 and based in San Jose, California, RackWare has migrated over a million workloads and protects hundreds of thousands more for customers ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to SMBs across 60+ countries.
Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Networks is a cybersecurity company based in Campbell, California that protects more than 200,000 organizations worldwide. It packages email protection, application and network security, data protection and managed detection and response into the AI-powered BarracudaONE platform, sold largely through a global network of managed service providers and channel partners.
SentinelOne
SentinelOne is an American cybersecurity company that builds the AI-powered Singularity Platform, autonomous software that detects, hunts, and responds to attacks across endpoints, cloud, identity, and data in real time. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, it pioneered machine-learning-driven endpoint protection that works without human intervention and now competes head-to-head with CrowdStrike and Microsoft in the enterprise security market. After the largest cybersecurity IPO in history in 2021, the company crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in 2025.
Spin.AI
Spin.AI is an AI-powered SaaS security and data-protection company based in Palo Alto. Its SpinOne platform unifies SaaS Security Posture Management, ransomware defense, automated backup and recovery, and browser extension risk control for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Slack - serving more than 1,500 organizations across 100+ countries.
Poojan Kumar
Poojan Kumar is a serial entrepreneur and cloud infrastructure pioneer who co-founded Clumio, a cloud-native backup-as-a-service company that raised $261M before being acquired by Commvault in September 2024. A Stanford-educated IIT Bombay alumnus, Kumar previously co-founded PernixData (acquired by Nutanix in 2016) and was the founding engineer behind Oracle Exadata. At Clumio he built one of the leading AWS data protection platforms, amassing 1,000+ enterprise customers including Atlassian and LexisNexis, and now serves as Chief Product Innovation Officer at Commvault.