DriveNets
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- Ido Susan
- Hillel Kobrinsky
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| Company type | Private company |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2015[1] |
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| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ido Susan (CEO) Hillel Kobrinsky (CSO)[4] |
| Products | Network operating system, Software-defined networking |
Number of employees | 500[5] |
| Website | www |
DriveNets is a networking company that designs and sells infrastructure[6] to telecommunications providers, networks, and organizations building AI systems, including hyperscaler organizations and NeoClouds (GPU-as-a-Service providers).[7] Products include a networking operating system running on a White box, and an Ethernet-based AI Fabric used for backend, compute, and storage networks.
DriveNets was founded in 2015 by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky. Susan is the co-founder of Intucell, which he sold to Cisco for $475 million in 2013.[8] Kobrinsky co-founded Interwise, which was acquired by AT&T for $121 million.[9] DriveNets was in a stealth mode[10] and was self-funded until 2019.[11] In 2019, DriveNets raised $110 million in series A round from Bessemer Venture Partners and Pitango Growth,[2] along with John W. Thompson and Stephen J. Luczo.[12] In 2021, DriveNets raised $208 million in series B funding led by D1 Capital Partners with follow-on investments from Bessemer and Pitango and investment by Harel Insurance.[13] In August 2022, DriveNets announced it completed Series C funding of $262 million led by D2 Investments, along with former investors Bessemer, D1 Capital, Pitango, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance.[14] In 2025, AT&T acquired a 15% stake (approximately $750 million) in shares from DriveNets' employees and investors. The company's estimated value in 2025 was $5 billion.[15]
The company has approximately 100 customers, including AT&T [16] Comcast,[17] and KDDI.[18] Among its partners are Fujitsu, Broadcom Inc.,[19] Itochu Techno-Solutions, Wipro, EPCglobal,[20] and Accton.[21] The company has 500 employees[5] with offices in Israel, the USA, Japan, and Romania.[22] In November 2023, DriveNets joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, an industry initiative aimed at developing optimal Ethernet for high-performance networking.[23][24]
Products
DriveNets has two product lines - Network Cloud and Network Cloud-AI. Both are based on a Disaggregated, modular network architecture deployed on commodity white box hardware. The company’s Network Cloud product line is a cloud-native software-based solution that applies the architectural model of cloud shared infrastructure to communication service providers' networking, for a range of network use cases – from the core to peering to aggregation and to the edge,[25] provisioned as microservices and containers.[26] The company’s Ethernet-based GPU-to-GPU networking fabric product line is planned for hyperscalers and enterprises as a scalable replacement for InfiniBand in GPU cluster interconnections.[27]