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.
Reference
1. Sarimul Islam Choudhury (6 April 2010) Vc circle.
2. 8 August 2019 Druva-Expands-Executive-Team-Company-Continues-Phase Bussines Wire.
3. Narinder Kapur (19 July 2019) sequoia-nexus-backed-unicorn-druva-acquires-cloud-data-firm-cloudlanes VC Circle
4. Peerzada Abrar (20 June 2019) Bussines Standard .
5. 11 June 2019 New-Druva-Global-Headquarters-Marks-Major-Milestone Business Wire.
6. Priyanka Sangani (20 June 2019). ETtech.
7. J Vignesh ( 23 August 2017 ) Economic Times.
8. Priyanka Sangani ( 21 June 2019 ). Economic Times.
9. Sadhana Chathurvedula, Ashna Ambre ( 7 September 2016 ) www.livemint.com Livemint.
10. https://googleweblight.com/i?uhttps://m.economictimes.com/small-biz/startups/enterprise-software-maker-druva-raises-51-million-in-funding-led-by-sequoia/articleshow/54565249.cms&hlen-IN
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.
Reference
1. Sarimul Islam Choudhury (6 April 2010) Vc circle.
2. 8 August 2019 Druva-Expands-Executive-Team-Company-Continues-Phase Bussines Wire.
3. Narinder Kapur (19 July 2019) sequoia-nexus-backed-unicorn-druva-acquires-cloud-data-firm-cloudlanes VC Circle
4. Peerzada Abrar (20 June 2019) Bussines Standard .
5. 11 June 2019 New-Druva-Global-Headquarters-Marks-Major-Milestone Business Wire.
6. Priyanka Sangani (20 June 2019). ETtech.
7. J Vignesh ( 23 August 2017 ) Economic Times.
8. Priyanka Sangani ( 21 June 2019 ). Economic Times.
9. Sadhana Chathurvedula, Ashna Ambre ( 7 September 2016 ) www.livemint.com Livemint.
10. https://googleweblight.com/i?uhttps://m.economictimes.com/small-biz/startups/enterprise-software-maker-druva-raises-51-million-in-funding-led-by-sequoia/articleshow/54565249.cms&hlen-IN
Deepak Singhal (born 21 January 1959) was Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India from 2015 to 2019. He took over charge from K K Vohra on 1st November 2015. He is currently an independent director of IDBI Bank.
Early life and education
Deepak Singhal was born on 21st January 1959. He went to University of Allahabad for his bachelor’s degree in Economics. He has also a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from Jaipur, besides being a certified associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
Singhal has spoken for sustainable and scalable financial inclusion, and took several initiatives for easier KYC norms for pushing financial inclusion in Mission Mode. In 2016 he was one of the contenders for the post of RBI Deputy Governor, but Viral Acharya was selected for the post by Government of India.
He was instrumental in releasing of guidelines for Basel III implementation in India.
Positions
* Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India New Delhi<ref name=":0" />
* Director, IDBI Bank<ref name="IDBI" />
* Director, Union Bank of India
* Officer in Charge, RBI Belapur
Early life and education
Deepak Singhal was born on 21st January 1959. He went to University of Allahabad for his bachelor’s degree in Economics. He has also a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from Jaipur, besides being a certified associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
Singhal has spoken for sustainable and scalable financial inclusion, and took several initiatives for easier KYC norms for pushing financial inclusion in Mission Mode. In 2016 he was one of the contenders for the post of RBI Deputy Governor, but Viral Acharya was selected for the post by Government of India.
He was instrumental in releasing of guidelines for Basel III implementation in India.
Positions
* Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India New Delhi<ref name=":0" />
* Director, IDBI Bank<ref name="IDBI" />
* Director, Union Bank of India
* Officer in Charge, RBI Belapur
Tai Pun Residents Association is a Chinese American home town association of Dapengnese in the United States of America. The majority of Dapengnese have lived in New York City. The organization is a member of Lin Sing Association. The association building is situated at 51 Bayard Street 1/F in New York. The organization organise annually a meeting at Chinese New Year. They use Dapeng dialect to communicate with each other. Tai Pun Residents Association was founded in 1919 and is the oldest Dapengnese association. Chinese nationalism, respect for the young and old are the main ideas of Tai Pun Residents Association. Therefore, every year they celebrate the national day of Republic of China on October the tenth. And they organise a day for elderly in summer. The Tai Pun Yook Ying Association is a suborganization. It was founded as a charity fund for Chinese schools
Jerome S. Arkenberg is an American historian. He is a History Professor at Columbia College Chicago, and Waubonsee Community College, the Associate Editor for H-Net's H-Law from 1999 - 2016, and the author of entries in Reader's Guides, Historical Dictionaries and Specialist Encyclopedias. He is primarily known for being the Contributing Editor for the Internet History Sourcebooks Project since 1998, responsible for contributing hundreds of primary sources to this pedagogically highly important site.
Education
Jerome Arkenberg was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent his early boyhood in Melrose Park, Illinois before his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, where he went on to graduate from Oak Park and River Forest High School. He first studied at Loyola University of Chicago, completing a B.A. with a Double Major in History and Political Science, then going on to receive a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Illinois College of Law. After several years of legal practice in Oak Park and Chicago, he returned to Loyola University of Chicago and completed an M.A. in Ancient and Medieval History. He went on to study Medieval History, Manuscripts and Lawbooks at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
He has taught at California State University, Los Angeles, Cypress College, Chaffey College, Chapman University, Concordia University, Irvine, California State University, Fullerton, Northern Illinois University, University of St. Francis, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dominican University, Lake Forest College, Waubonsee Community College, Triton College, DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, McHenry County College, and Marmion Academy.
In addition he has worked as a Law Librarian, Law Clerk, and Attorney at Law in Illinois in State and Federal Courts, and more recently as a Law Clerk in California. He has also worked as a Researcher for the Loyola University of Chicago Department of History and the University of California, Los Angeles Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
He was the first Adjunct Faculty elected to serve as a member of the California State University, Fullerton Academic Senate in the years 2002-2005, and was the first Adjunct Faculty to ever serve on a college-wide committee, the Library Committee, at California State University Fullerton from 2004 - 2005. Additionally, also at California State University, Fullerton, he served on the World History Board from 1999 to 2005, and the Committee on Faculty Merit Increase from 1999 to 2001. He also founded California State University, Fullerton History Teaching Group, which met from 2002 to 2005.
He has been the Department Representative for the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences since 2014, a member of the Curriculum Committee since 2016, and a member of the External Chair Search Committee for 2017 - 2018, all at Columbia College Chicago.
He has also received the British Academy Neil Ripley Ker Memorial Award; a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; a Ball Foundation Fellowship at the Lilly Library, Indiana University; a Lilly Foundation Fellowship on Teaching at Hope College in Holland, Michigan; and a Certificate in Teaching Mastery from the Teaching and Learning Academy at California State University Fullerton. Additionally, he was a Faculty Fellow at the Andrew Carnegie Foundation Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the year 2000.
Publications
In addition to publishing his own work, he has digitized and edited hundreds of historical works that are made available by the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. He has also edited the 'Guide to Medieval Terms and "A List of Fiction For Students of History: Ancient and Medieval".
Entries
;2005:
The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, ed.
* "Constantine the Great"
;2003:
A Reader's Guide to British History, ed.
* "The Statutes of Quo Warranto to 1485"
* "The General Eyre to 1485"
* "The Thirteenth Century Statutes of Westminster"
* "Law Enforcement in England to 1536".
;2002:
The Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485.
* "Quia Emptores, Statute of (1290)"
* "Chief Justice Ralph de Hengham, Jurist (d.1311)"
* "Quo Warranto Proceedings and Statutes to 1535."
The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World,
* "Fulvia (80-40 B.C.E.)"
* "Ælle, King of the South Saxons (450-491 C.E.)"
* "Lucius Licinius Lucullus (117-56 B.C.E.)"
;2001:
Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary.
* "Thomas Bourgchier, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury (1411-1486)"
* "Nicholas Hereford, Oxford Theologian & Lollard (1355? - 1420?)"
* "Philip Repyngdon, Cardinal, Bishop of Lincoln, and Lollard (1360?- 1424)"
* "Ranulf Higden, Historian (fl. 1299-1364)"
* "John of Fordoun, Historian (d. 1384-87?)"
* "Andrew of Wyntoun, Historian (1350? - 1420-25?)".
Reviews
* Garth Fowden’s "Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2002) 57-61.
* Jan Bremmer's "The Early Greek Concept of the Soul" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), in The Pomegranate: A Journal of Pagan Studies 15 (2001): 55-56.
Articles
* "The Proletariat's Proletariat", Senate Forum, XVIII:2 (Spring 2003), 15.
* "We can beat terrorists, but they can’t whip U.S.," Orange County Register, October 14, 2001.
* "The Story Behind a Stray Medieval Manuscript Leaf" Harvard Library Bulletin (Winter 1997) New Series, v. 8, no. 4, p46-54.
* "Licinii Murenae, Terentii Varrones, and Varrones Murenae. II: The Enigma of Varro Murena," Historia 42:4 (1993): 471-491.
* "Licinii Murenae, Terentii Varrones, and Varrones Murenae. I: A Prosopographical Study of Three Roman Families," Historia 42:3 (1993): 326-351.
Books
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, East Asian Edition, 2019.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Indic Edition, 2016.
* Editor. The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, American Dream Edition, 2019.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Medieval Civilization, Third Edition, 2018.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Modern Times, Sixth Edition, 2018.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Ancient Civilization, Third Edition, 2018.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Western Civilization, New Edition, 2008.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, World History, Third New Edition 2008.
* Editor, Africa: Now and Forever, 2007.
* Author, The Naked Past Uncovered: A Course of Lectures, 2 Vols. 2002.
Education
Jerome Arkenberg was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent his early boyhood in Melrose Park, Illinois before his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, where he went on to graduate from Oak Park and River Forest High School. He first studied at Loyola University of Chicago, completing a B.A. with a Double Major in History and Political Science, then going on to receive a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Illinois College of Law. After several years of legal practice in Oak Park and Chicago, he returned to Loyola University of Chicago and completed an M.A. in Ancient and Medieval History. He went on to study Medieval History, Manuscripts and Lawbooks at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
He has taught at California State University, Los Angeles, Cypress College, Chaffey College, Chapman University, Concordia University, Irvine, California State University, Fullerton, Northern Illinois University, University of St. Francis, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dominican University, Lake Forest College, Waubonsee Community College, Triton College, DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, McHenry County College, and Marmion Academy.
In addition he has worked as a Law Librarian, Law Clerk, and Attorney at Law in Illinois in State and Federal Courts, and more recently as a Law Clerk in California. He has also worked as a Researcher for the Loyola University of Chicago Department of History and the University of California, Los Angeles Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
He was the first Adjunct Faculty elected to serve as a member of the California State University, Fullerton Academic Senate in the years 2002-2005, and was the first Adjunct Faculty to ever serve on a college-wide committee, the Library Committee, at California State University Fullerton from 2004 - 2005. Additionally, also at California State University, Fullerton, he served on the World History Board from 1999 to 2005, and the Committee on Faculty Merit Increase from 1999 to 2001. He also founded California State University, Fullerton History Teaching Group, which met from 2002 to 2005.
He has been the Department Representative for the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences since 2014, a member of the Curriculum Committee since 2016, and a member of the External Chair Search Committee for 2017 - 2018, all at Columbia College Chicago.
He has also received the British Academy Neil Ripley Ker Memorial Award; a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; a Ball Foundation Fellowship at the Lilly Library, Indiana University; a Lilly Foundation Fellowship on Teaching at Hope College in Holland, Michigan; and a Certificate in Teaching Mastery from the Teaching and Learning Academy at California State University Fullerton. Additionally, he was a Faculty Fellow at the Andrew Carnegie Foundation Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the year 2000.
Publications
In addition to publishing his own work, he has digitized and edited hundreds of historical works that are made available by the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. He has also edited the 'Guide to Medieval Terms and "A List of Fiction For Students of History: Ancient and Medieval".
Entries
;2005:
The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, ed.
* "Constantine the Great"
;2003:
A Reader's Guide to British History, ed.
* "The Statutes of Quo Warranto to 1485"
* "The General Eyre to 1485"
* "The Thirteenth Century Statutes of Westminster"
* "Law Enforcement in England to 1536".
;2002:
The Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485.
* "Quia Emptores, Statute of (1290)"
* "Chief Justice Ralph de Hengham, Jurist (d.1311)"
* "Quo Warranto Proceedings and Statutes to 1535."
The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World,
* "Fulvia (80-40 B.C.E.)"
* "Ælle, King of the South Saxons (450-491 C.E.)"
* "Lucius Licinius Lucullus (117-56 B.C.E.)"
;2001:
Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary.
* "Thomas Bourgchier, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury (1411-1486)"
* "Nicholas Hereford, Oxford Theologian & Lollard (1355? - 1420?)"
* "Philip Repyngdon, Cardinal, Bishop of Lincoln, and Lollard (1360?- 1424)"
* "Ranulf Higden, Historian (fl. 1299-1364)"
* "John of Fordoun, Historian (d. 1384-87?)"
* "Andrew of Wyntoun, Historian (1350? - 1420-25?)".
Reviews
* Garth Fowden’s "Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2002) 57-61.
* Jan Bremmer's "The Early Greek Concept of the Soul" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), in The Pomegranate: A Journal of Pagan Studies 15 (2001): 55-56.
Articles
* "The Proletariat's Proletariat", Senate Forum, XVIII:2 (Spring 2003), 15.
* "We can beat terrorists, but they can’t whip U.S.," Orange County Register, October 14, 2001.
* "The Story Behind a Stray Medieval Manuscript Leaf" Harvard Library Bulletin (Winter 1997) New Series, v. 8, no. 4, p46-54.
* "Licinii Murenae, Terentii Varrones, and Varrones Murenae. II: The Enigma of Varro Murena," Historia 42:4 (1993): 471-491.
* "Licinii Murenae, Terentii Varrones, and Varrones Murenae. I: A Prosopographical Study of Three Roman Families," Historia 42:3 (1993): 326-351.
Books
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, East Asian Edition, 2019.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Indic Edition, 2016.
* Editor. The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, American Dream Edition, 2019.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Medieval Civilization, Third Edition, 2018.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Modern Times, Sixth Edition, 2018.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Ancient Civilization, Third Edition, 2018.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, Western Civilization, New Edition, 2008.
* Editor, The Naked Past: Revealing Records of Human History, World History, Third New Edition 2008.
* Editor, Africa: Now and Forever, 2007.
* Author, The Naked Past Uncovered: A Course of Lectures, 2 Vols. 2002.