Zededa

Zededa was founded in 2016 by CEO Said Uissala. The company is developing a cloud-based edge computing virtualization platform designed to monitor, visualize and protect edge applications in real time. The company's platform provides visibility, control, and security for distributed boundaries, and the deployment and management of any applications on any hardware at scale and with connectivity to any cloud or local systems, allowing organizations to gain full control over data within their virtual infrastructure and not become tied to providers regardless of the applications and clouds they choose to implement.

Zededa's office is located in San Jose, California. Among the founders of the startup are Eric Nordmark and Roman Shaposhnik. The latter is a graduate of St. Petersburg State University.

History

2024: Raising $72 million in investments

In February 2024, it became known about investing $72 million in Zededa. The funding round was led by Smith Point Capital, a venture capital fund created by former Salesforce CEO Keith Block.

Lux Capital, Chevron Technology Ventures and Porsche Ventures are named as investors. According to experts interviewed by Bloomberg, this investment deal demonstrated investor confidence in Zededa's approach and the startup's competence.

Zededa

We believe that peripheral computing has the potential to be a new wave of digital transformation, given its unique ability to solve many of the problems that arise in an increasingly interconnected world. Peripheral computing is capable of creating companies leading the market, such as Zededa, "said Keith Block.

Zededa specializes in so-called "peripheral computing" - a paradigm of computing within reach of end devices. This type of computation reduces network response and enables more efficient utilization of network bandwidth. This approach is especially important when applying artificial intelligence, which requires processing a huge amount of data. Startup technologies can be applied in areas from industrial robotics to self-driving cars.

{{quote 'The latest round of investments confirms our leadership and preferred contractor status for large corporations for their edge computing and operations. We have every opportunity to expand our infrastructure model everywhere and continue to please our customers and implement our vision, "said Said Ouissal, director and founder of the company^[1] }}

2022: Raising $26 million of investments, including from Almaz Capital Alexander Galitsky

In July 2022, American edge computing technology developer Zededa announced a $26 million investment. Coast Range Capital, Lux Capital, Energize Ventures, Almaz Capital Alexander Galitsky and a number of other funds took part in the financing round. The startup plans to use the funds received to accelerate research and development, as well as to expand sales and marketing.

Almaz Capital Partners invests in American edge computing technology developer Zededa

The customer base includes OEM work of the company from the Global 500 list, including the world's leading suppliers of virtualization software and one of the leading companies in the field of industrial automation.

Zededa uses an open partner ecosystem with the application market and uses an open architecture built on EVE-OS from. Linux Foundation EVE-OS is a lightweight engine based on Linux with. open source

The developing ecosystem around an open automation solution eventually attracted to strategic partnership and integration, Google,, and Microsoft. PTC SUSE^[2]

2018: First Investment Round - $3 million

The first round of investments in Zededa took place in 2018, then the company raised $3 million.

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