Silk Platform

Short description: American cloud storage company

SilkType| Private

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Founded| 2008; 18 years ago (2008)
Headquarters|

Needham, Massachusetts

United States

Key people

| Dani Golan (Founder, CEO)
/>Itay Shoshani (COO)
Products| Silk Platform
Website| www.silk.us

Silk is a technology company headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, United States . Silk offers a cloud platform for enterprise customers with mission-critical applications. The company has offices in Boston and Israel.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Products
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

CEO, Dani Golan, founded Silk in 2008. Originally called Kaminario, after the Japanese god of lightning. The company was a flash storage start-up.

The company's first venture capital funding round was announced in May 2011 with a $15 million investment from Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Pitango Venture Capital.[1] Silk received $25 million in series D funding in June 2012 from Tenaya Capital and existing investors. In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a series E round from Lazarus Hedge Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, and existing investors.[2][3][4]

In 2017, the company evolved to focus purely on storage software in a Storage as a Service model. It partnered with Tech Data[5] to offer customers inexpensive hardware to run their storage software on.

In 2020, the company rebranded itself as Silk.[6]

## Products

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The Silk Cloud Data Platform gives demanding workloads up to 10x faster performance in the cloud. Without refactoring, applications can run in the public cloud without compromising on performance or overspending to mitigate risk. Industry leaders in ecommerce, SaaS, FinTech, and healthcare trust Silk with their business-critical workloads to get the ultra-fast speed customers demand. Silk is headquartered outside Boston, MA.

## References

1. ↑ Gregory T. Huang (May 2, 2011). "Kaminario Collects $15M for Storage Grid". Xconomy. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2011/05/02/kaminario-collects-15m-for-storage-grid/. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
2. ↑ Jordan Novet (December 2, 2014). "With this $53M, flash storage startup Kaminario will keep challenging incumbents". Venture Beat. https://venturebeat.com/2014/12/02/kaminario-funding/. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
3. ↑ "Newton storage firm Kaminario raises another $15M, bringing total funding to $143M". Boston Business Journal. January 22, 2015. http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2015/01/newton-storage-firm-kaminario-raises-another-15m.html. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
4. ↑ Michael Davidson (January 22, 2015). "$68M Round Puts Kaminario Back in the Flash Data Storage Mix". Xconomy. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2015/01/22/68m-round-puts-kaminario-back-in-the-flash-data-storage-mix/. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
5. ↑ Todd R. Weiss (July 1, 2019). "Kaminario Delivers Storage as a Service Through Tech Data Deal". Channel Partners. https://www.channelfutures.com/data-centers/kaminario-delivers-storage-as-a-service-through-tech-data-deal.
6. ↑ "Kaminario Announces Company Name Change to Silk". Business Insider. July 6, 2020. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/kaminario-announces-company-name-change-to-silk-1029369208.

## External links

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