Sep 30, 2019 one of druvas core values is to have a challenger mentality and our team continually pushes the envelope to find new solutions tuned to cloudnative technologies, said milind borate, chief technology officer, druva. With public cloud, unlike onpremise data centers, you can bring up. Milind borate, druvas cto, said thousands of laptops were lost at us airports last year and 60% of them probably had no backup of their data. Druvas key executives are jaspreet singh, milind borate and mahesh patel. Success story of milind borate co founder druva pune.
Druva was started by jaspreet singh and milind borate, two former punebased employees of. He graduated from iit bombay and later went on to work in the corporate sector for ten years before starting up. Patent and trademark office uspto for its deduplication technology and data search capabilities. Borate has over 20 years of experience in enterprise product development and delivery. A single platform that unifies data protection and. Backup software packages ran in gigabytes, would take.
Startup by iitians sells data security software to nasa, pfizer and louis vuitton working out of pune, the three engineers have since successfully built a data security and retrieval software company. Druva software private limited company, directors and. Reimagining data protection with saas startup druva. Druva is a saas solution in a market dominated by legacy hardware vendors, enabling customers to eliminate complexity and drive down costs by up to. Founded in 2008 by jaspreet singh, milind borate, and ramani kothandaraman, druva offers cloud data protection and information management, leveraging the public cloud to offer a single pane of. Competitors of druva include commvault, cobalt iron and rubrik.
Indian angel network invests in druva software druva. Druva was founded in 2008 by jaspreet singh, borate and ramani kothandaraman. Founded in 2008, the californiaheadquartered firm has grown from a team of seven to more than 700. The privately held company was founded in 2008 by jaspreet singh, milind borate and ramani kothandaraman. Milind worked at veritas software as technical director for sanfs and served on board of veritas patent filter committee. Druva software pvt ltd company profile and news bloomberg. Read article by milind borate while there are many benefits of public cloud, metered billing is one of the key ones. Aug 05, 2019 directors of druva software private limited are sanjeev upadhyay, milind vithal borate.
Milind borate the man building the north star of data. Indian startups druva, ittiam, serial innovations, mistral. Druva software private limiteds corporate identification number is cin u72200pn2007ptc129533 and its registration number is 129533. View amit pundes profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Druvas software is currently being used by nasa to provide a backup for their data.
The key investors in druva are vikig global investors, riverwood capital, nexus venture partners, sequoia capital and tenaya capital. Prior to druva, he served as vice president of engineering at druva software pvt. Druva is cloud data protection and management startup founded by jaspreet singh, milind borate and ramani kothandaraman in 2008. Druva jobs, benefits, business model, founding story. Druva software private limited develops enterprise backup and retrieval software. Druva was founded in 2008 by two former veritas software india software engineers named jaspreet singh singh and milind borate borate. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. We are here to provide softwareasaservice saas platform for data.
Cloud data protection and management company druva has doubled down on. We had two choices for running our software on public cloud. Milind borate founded druva along with jaspreet singh and ramani. Chief technology officer druva org chart create an alert to follow the career of milind borate. The company offers laptop and server backup products consisting of simple backup, pointintime restores, security. Milind borate founded druva along with jaspreet singh and ramani kothandaraman, in 2007 photos. Milind started a services company to build software that was being. Druvas insync is a cloudbased unified solution for managing endpoint data in a mobile world. Apr 28, 2014 druva was founded in 2007 by jaspreet singh, ramani kothandaraman and milind borate. Startup by iitians sells data security software to. A company that builds product for backups and data protection aimed at enterprises that work in a wide variety. Using cloud native technology was a critical decision for druva. Druva is a cloud data protection and information management provider for both end user and server data.
Founded by jaspreet singh and milind borate, druva cloud platform is built on amazon web services aws and currently has more than 700 employees. Information on valuation, funding, cap tables, investors, and executives for druva. Druva was started by jaspreet singh and milind borate, two former punebased employees of usbased data management major veritas, in. Milind holds several patents in storage technology and coauthored the book undocumented windows nt in 1998. Milind borate is the cofounder and cto of druva, which provides data protection and management for businesses. The startup, founded in 2007 by jaspreet singh, ramani kothandaraman and milind borate, now sells its products to over 1,200. News druva funding in indian startups this week 17 june22 june june 22, 2019 this week 17 continue reading druva news. Druva was founded in 2007 by jaspreet singh, ramani kothandaraman and milind borate. Good data management practices is the key to successful ai. Druvas specialties include enterprise endpoint backup, data loss prevention, secure file sharing, cloud server backup and archiving, server backup and disaster recovery dr. After graduation, i had a yearlong stint as a software developer with persistent systems in pune. Mar 18, 2020 read article by milind borate while there are many benefits of public cloud, metered billing is one of the key ones. Milind borate has over years experience in enterprise product development and delivery.
We were both building systems to manage largescale data. The latest funding investment was led by riverwood capital, llc with participation from sequoia capital india, nexus venture partners, tenaya capital, and most other existing venture investors. Its software is built on to amazon web services and is used by more than 4000 companies around the world. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover milinds connections and jobs at similar companies. View milind borates profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional. Druvas patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency. Jul 11, 2019 when singh started druva in 2008 with milind borate and ramani kothandaraman kothandaraman moved on from the startup a few years ago the three met as colleagues at data management firm veritas software saas was barely part of the indian startup ecosystems lexicon. Buy or sell druva stock pre ipo via an equityzen fund. We are very excited by druva s technology agenda and series of game changing products under development.
Indian financial services sector key growth area for us. Borate has also worked at veritas software as technical director for sanfs. Saas unicorn druva gets three us patents for data services. Milind was technical director at veritas softwar, and software exports india at software engineer. Dec 16, 20 the 31yearold ceo founded druva when he was just 26 in 2008 in india with his cofounder milind borate. Use the pitchbook platform to explore the full profile.
We think this could be one of the first potential big indian it winner in the huge global enterprise product space says milind borate, cofounder and cto. Milind borate the man building the north star of data protection. View milind borate s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Cloud data security firm druva acquires usbased cloudlanes. These innovations are already being made available to customers and enable enterprises to optimize data protection through lower network bandwidth demands and intelligent storage tiering, resulting in lower consumption needs. A company that builds product for backups and data protection aimed at enterprises that work in a. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover milind s connections and jobs at similar companies. The 31yearold ceo founded druva when he was just 26 in 2008 in india with his cofounder milind borate. Druva saw the early signs of saas being the preferred model of software consumption. A survey conducted by druva across the us says that over 64% of respondents do not have a laptop backup policy. One of druvas core values is to have a challenger mentality and our team continually pushes the envelope to find new solutions tuned to cloudnative technologies, said milind borate, chief technology officer, druva. Nov 22, 2019 milind borate in 2011, when druva decided to pursue data protection as a service model. Explore endless possibilities with serverless software. Special arrangement we got recognised by gartner worlds leading research and advisory company as the number one data protection and recovery product in 2014, says borate, 46, who founded druva along with two other software programmers.
Druva company profile office locations, competitors. A single platform that unifies data protection and management. Directors of druva software private limited are sanjeev upadhyay, milind vithal borate. Jun 20, 2019 druva will be the second saas software as a service. Druva will be the second saas software as a service. After graduation, i had a yearlong stint as a software developer with. Druva is a saas solution in a market dominated by legacy hardware vendors, enabling customers to eliminate complexity and drive down costs by up to 50 per cent.
Amit punde principal product manager druva linkedin. Among the firms customers are french fashion brand louis vuitton, xerox and the us marine corps, which uses druvas software to secure laptops in conflict zones like afghanistan. While icertis also joined the unicorn club this year, druvas story, led by cofounders jaspreet singh, milind borate, and ramani kothandaraman, is one of the most intriguing. When singh started druva in 2008 with milind borate and ramani kothandaraman kothandaraman moved on from the startup a few years ago the three met as colleagues at data management firm veritas software saas was barely part of the indian startup ecosystems lexicon. Druva cloud platform is built on aws and offered asaservice. Druva is a story of three pivots before reaching the. We talked to milind borate, the cofounder and cto of druva, a sunnyvale, california based computer software firm, about how leadership is. Druva was founded in 2008 by jaspreet singh, borate and. Jan 15, 2020 druvas patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency.
Milind borate in 2011, when druva decided to pursue data protection as a service model. The two cofounders continue to serve in senior executive positions at the company. Druva enables a simple, oneclick restoration of any file or backup volume. Druvas patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain. View milind borates profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. In this interview, jaspreet singh, founder and ceo, explains how the product differentiates in its market and how it provides value for enterprises. In this weeks techie tuesdays, we bring to you the story of milind borate, cofounder and cto of druva, one of the biggest tech startups of india. Prior to cofounding druva, he worked at veritas software as technical director for sanfs and served on the board of the veritas patent committee. Companies like, oracle, mulesoft, adobe, sap, microsoft and many more have begun to move in that. Druva s key executives are jaspreet singh, milind borate and mahesh patel. Druva s specialties include enterprise endpoint backup, data loss prevention, secure file sharing, cloud server backup and archiving, server backup and disaster recovery dr.
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