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What does Barefoot Networks do?
Barefoot Networks, is a company which sells ultrafast chips for switching systems. The company has a team of experienced visionaries, engineers and technologists who have designed a blueprint for designing and operating the fastest and most programmable networks in the world. The company’s aim is to make network programming as easy as CPU programming. The company has launched from stealth, revealing its pioneering technology and setting multiple networking records.
How much Barefoot Networks was funded?
The company raised $57M in Series C on June 14, 2016 from Anonymous Investor, Andreessen Horowitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hermes Growth Partners, Google, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs and Sequoia Capital.
Previous funding
$1.35M on December 25, 2013
$24M in Series A on May 14, 2014 from Goldman Sachs, John Vrionis, Google, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital
$50M in Series B on June 1, 2015 from Sequoia Capital
What is next for Barefoot Networks?
The company is announcing the fastest switch ever built, which is the 1st switches ever to be completely user programmable. This helps customers in building the world’s only completely programmable networks and for running those networks at record breaking speed.
More about Barefoot Networks
Barefoot Networks was founded in May, 2013 by Martin Izzard and Nick McKeown, Dan Lenoski and Pat Bosshart, who bring the company over 100 years of experience in building the biggest and fastest networking systems in the world. It has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The company launched in 2016 after 2 years of developing the most programmable and the fastest switches every built, two times faster the previous on the record. The company enables organization to define the network data plane in software and empowers network owners and their infrastructure partners in designing, optimizing and innovating in meeting their specific requirements and gaining competitive advantage.
