Big Switch Networks Raises $48.5M

What does Big Switch Networks do?

Big Switch Networks, is a Bare Metal SDN company. It is a provider of Software Defined Networking and bare metal solutions inspired by hyper scale design. Its SDN Fabric solutions embrace industry standards, open source and vendor neutral support for the physical and virtual networking infrastructure. It supports a wide range of networking apps, including P+V Cloud Switching and Monitoring.

How much Big Switch Networks was funded?

Big Switch Networks raised $48.5M in Series C on January 19, 2016 from Morgenthaler Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Silver Lake Waterman, Index Ventures, TriplePoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures

Previous funding

• $1.5M on July, 2010 from Morgenthaler Ventures, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners and Mark Leslie,Bill Meehan
• $13.8M in Series A on April 22, 2011 from Morgenthaler Ventures, Index Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures and Khosla Ventures
• $30.5M in Series B in 2012 from Morgenthaler Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Intel Capital and Index Ventures.

What is next for Big Switch Networks?

The company has raised a total of $94.3Min 4 rounds. The latest round of funding comes as it continues to drive adoption, including over 300% growth in 2015 with customer wins across APAC, US and EMEA regions, in verticals including financial services, technology, higher education and government service providers. The company plans to scale and introduce its core products to new consumers in more markets globally.

The company has named Dan Warmenhoven, former NetApp CEO and Gary Morgenthaler, seasoned venture capitalist to its Board of Directors.

More about Big Switch Network

Big Switch Network was founded in 2010 by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster. It has its headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. This company is the market leader in brining hyper scale kind of networking technologies to a mainstream data centre audiences. It has 3 key hyper scale technologies, OEM/ODM bare metal and Open Ethernet switch hardware, core and pod data centre designs and sophisticated SDN control software.