Cohesity
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information technology Data security Disaster recovery Data management |
| Founder | Mohit Aron |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Sanjay Poonen (CEO and President)[1] |
| Products | DataProtect SmartFiles Helios FortKnox DataHawk |
| Revenue |  $1.7 Billion (2025)[2] |
Number of employees | [3][4] 6,000[5] |
| Website | www |
Cohesity, Inc. is an American privately held information technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California with offices in India and Ireland.[6] The company develops software that allows IT professionals to backup, manage and gain insights from their data across multiple systems or cloud providers.[7][8] Their products also include anti-ransomware features, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, and SaaS management.
Cohesity was founded in June 2013 by Mohit Aron.[9] Aron previously co-founded storage company Nutanix.[10] While still in stealth mode, it closed a Series A funding round of $15M.[10]
The company launched publicly in June 2015, introducing a platform designed to consolidate and manage secondary data.[11] In October, Cohesity announced the public launch of its data management products, DataPlatform and DataProtect.[12] As part of coming out of stealth mode, the company announced a Series B funding round of $55M, bringing its total at that point to $70M.[10]
In February 2016, the company announced the second generation of DataPlatform and DataProtect.[13] In June, the company launched its 3.0 products, expanding data protection to physical servers.[14] Also by June, the company had raised $70 million in venture funding in two rounds with Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.[15]
On April 4, 2017, Cohesity announced a $90 million Series C funding round, led by GV, the venture capital arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc., and Sequoia Capital.[16][17] In November 2017, Cohesity had 300 employees.[18]
On June 11, 2018, the company announced a Series D funding round of $250 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund.[19] In August, the company introduced a SaaS-based management console called Helios.[20]
In February 2019, Cohesity launched their online MarketPlace to sell applications that run on its DataPlatform.[21] In May, the company made its first acquisition by buying Imanis Data, a provider of NoSQL data protection software.[22] In July, the company announced it would be recognizing revenue predominantly from software, transitioning away from recognizing hardware revenue from the sale of backup appliances.[23]
In 2020, Cohesity raised $250 million in an E-round of funding.[24] By December 2021, the company had raised a total of $660 million.[24]
Cohesity filed for an IPO in December 2021.[25][24]
In April 2022, Cohesity partnered with Rackspace Technology.[26] Using Cohesity DataProtect as its foundation, Rackspace Technology is a multi-cloud managed backup and recovery software.[27]
In August 2022, the company announced that Sanjay Poonen would replace Mohit Aron as CEO and President of Cohesity.[28]
In December 2024, Cohesity completed its acquisition of data management company Veritas Technologies from The Carlyle Group for $3 billion.[29][30]