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Develops scale-out NAS appliances for SMBs, offering OneBlox with object storage, BYOHDD, and inline deduplication for scalable data.
Exablox has raised $45.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Key people at Exablox.
Exablox has raised $45.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, Exablox develops scale-out network-attached storage appliances and a software-as-a-service management platform designed for small and medium businesses. The company's flagship OneBlox hardware utilizes an object storage backend and a bring-your-own-drive model, allowing enterprise customers to scale flexibly from three to 84 drives across up to seven nodes. This hardware is paired with OneSystem, a cloud-based management tool that provides continuous data protection, replication, and inline variable-length deduplication with ratios up to 10:1. Led by Chief Executive Officer Douglas Brockett and Senior Director of Product Management Sean Derrington, the firm successfully acquired over 300 customers within its first eighteen months of product availability. The enterprise has showcased its unstructured data and backup solutions at prominent industry events including Storage Field Day. Exablox was founded in 2011 by a group of storage industry veterans.
Exablox has raised $45.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Exablox's investors include Dell Technologies Capital, George Bouchaya, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Wing Venture Capital, DCM, Alan Atkinson, U.S. Venture Partners, Carl Amdahl, Matthew Howard, Christopher Rust.
Exablox has raised $45.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $7.0M Series C in May 2015.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2015 | $7M Series C | Dell Technologies Capital, George Bouchaya | — | Announced |
| Feb 1, 2015 | $16M Series C | — | Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Wing Venture Capital, DCM, Alan Atkinson, Norwest Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners | Announced |
| Dec 1, 2012 | $22M Series B | — | Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Wing Venture Capital, Carl Amdahl, Matthew Howard, Christopher Rust | Announced |
Key people at Exablox.
Exablox is a technology company that developed cloud-managed, scale-out, object-based storage solutions designed to simplify and reduce the cost of managing unstructured data for businesses. Its flagship product, OneBlox, combines hardware and enterprise-grade software to provide scalable, high-performance NAS storage that serves Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, healthcare, insurance, and legal sectors. Exablox addresses the problem of escalating storage costs and complex data management by offering an affordable, easy-to-use platform with features like inline deduplication, continuous data protection, and disaster recovery[1][3][4].
Founded in 2010 by Tad Hunt (CTO), Matthew Catino (VP Business Development), and Frank Barrus (Chief Architect), Exablox emerged from a team with backgrounds at Data Domain, Veritas, NetApp, and other notable tech firms. The idea arose from the need to disrupt the enterprise storage market, which was burdened by expensive, complex, and fragmented storage solutions. Early traction came from raising $22 million in funding from investors such as Norwest Venture Partners and DCM, validating their innovative approach to scale-out storage for mid-market businesses[2][3].
Exablox capitalized on the growing demand for scalable, affordable storage solutions amid exploding volumes of unstructured data. The trend toward cloud-managed infrastructure and the blurring lines between primary and secondary storage created a timely opportunity for their scale-out NAS approach. Their acquisition by StorageCraft in 2017 allowed the combined entity to offer a comprehensive data management portfolio, integrating storage, protection, and analytics, which aligns with market forces emphasizing data availability, protection, and business continuity[1][4][6].
Post-acquisition by StorageCraft, Exablox’s technology has been positioned to expand StorageCraft’s footprint from traditional backup and recovery into primary storage markets. Future trends shaping their journey include increasing demand for integrated data protection and storage solutions that are cloud-managed and scalable. As data volumes continue to grow and ransomware threats rise, solutions like Exablox’s OneBlox that combine performance, ease of management, and data protection will remain critical. Their influence is likely to evolve as part of broader integrated data management platforms that serve enterprise and mid-market customers alike[1][4][6].