Dhruva software

Dhruva software is a cloud data protection and management software company based in Pune.It specialities in endpoint backup,data loss prevention,secure file sharing, cloud server backup and archiving,server backup and disaster recovery.
History
It was founded by an alumnus of IIT-Guwahati Jaspreet Singh along with Milind Borate and Romani Kothandaraman who were his colleagues at tech company Veritas.The three engineers pooled saving of about RS 300,000 to launch the company rented out a room in Suburban Pune in 2008.
They successful built a data security and retrieval software company. After realising the core portion of this market would remain with large firms.The company focused on protecting endpoint devices including smartphones,laptop and tablets.
Bussiness
It is built on Amazon Web Service platform. It has 4000 customers including Marriott, US space agency NASA and drugmaker Pfizer.
It offers software as a service for backup,disaster recovery, archival and analytics on the cloud.It is investing in new solution around data intelligence using machine learning analytics and providing more workload coverage. It has a team of about 700 people and will expand that to 1000 by the end of 2019.It also has a R&D facility in Pune.It is present in seven countries and planning to expand in other countries also.Its revenue is nearly $100million in 2019 and is growing at 50% per year.
In 2019 it acquired usa based cloud protection firm Cloudlane in an undisclose sum of money.
Funding
In 2010 it raised $5million in series A funding led by Sequoia capital India, Angel investor Indian Angel Network (IAN).
In 2011 it raised $12million in series B funding led by Nexus Venture Partner and existing Sequoia capital India.
In 2013 it raised $25million in series C funding led by Sequoia capital India,Nexus Venture partner and Temaya capital.
In 2014 it raised $25million in series D funding.
In 2016 it raised $51million in a funding from Sequoia capital India,EDBI,Blue cloud Venture and Hercules capital.
In August 2017 it raised $80million in a funding led by US based Riverwood capital.
In 2019 it raised $130million in a new funding led by Viking Global Investors.
Award and Recognition
* Recognised in Deloitte's technology fast 500 in three consecutive years.
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