Tracxn - Data Center Infrastructure Startup Landscape

JULY 2018
DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE

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Contents
Feed Summary
Investment Trends
Market Details
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
2
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Contents
Feed Summary
Investment Trends
Market Details
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
3
Feed Summary
Investment Trend Summary
Exit Outlook Summary
BlueBox
Summary of Key Markets
Notable Companies in the Sector
Recent News

Note: Mega Companies includes IPO’d companies, Mega Acquisitions and Unicorn. Data is taken from Tracxn Platform as on July 10, 2018.
Data Center Infrastructure Feed Summary
4
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary
Facilities that house hardware servers and tools that help in designing and monitoring them
• Inclusions: All Companies that manufacture servers,
house servers and provide products that monitor the data
center environment. All companies that design and
manufacture solutions(cooling, UPS and power) that are
used in data centers, equipment that are used to interlink
servers in data centers (Network connectivity). Companies
that provide designing solutions for a data center are also
included.
• Exclusions: Companies that construct data centers and
companies that provide real estate for data centers.
• Excludes funding information of Chinese companies
Feed in Numbers
Overview
$11.4B
Funding
87
Mega
Companies
325922
FundedCovered on
Tracxn
9
Unicorns
10
Soonicorns
2
Minicorns
36
IPO’d Cos
171
Late Stage Cos
76
81
Acquisitions
28
DeadPooled
99
Acquihired
Series A+ Cos
Dell
(1984, Round Rock, Acq)
Equinix
(1998, Foster City, $175M, Acq)
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise
(1939, Palo Alto, Public)
Top Companies

Investment Trend Summary
Summary of Funding Activity in Data Center Infrastructure
5
$400M - PE
AirTrunk (2014, Singapore, $400M)
$41M - Series D
Cloudian (2011, Foster City, $107M)
$130M - PE
LogicMonitor (2008, Santa Barbara, $152M)
$32.5M - Series A
Fungible (2015, Mountain View, $32.5M)
$90M - Series B
Pi DATACENTERS (2014, Hyderabad, $118M)
$25.7M - Series C
Nautilus Data Technologies (2013,
California, $35.7M)
$90M - Series B
ROOT Data Center (2013, Montreal, $115M)
$25M - Series D
$67.2M - Series G
Pivot3 (2003, Austin, $230M)
$23M - Series A
Top Geos of InvestmentEntrepreneurial Activity Global Funding Trend
*YTD *YTD
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Investment Trend Summary
Seed
360 Capital Partners (#1), ABR Capital Management (#1), Alpine
Meridian (#1)
Series A/B Intel Capital (#5), KPCB (#2), Artiman Ventures (#1)
Series C+
ABS Capital (#1), Argonaut Private Equity (#1), Balance Point
Capital (#1)
Incubators Alchemist Accelerator (#1) Gener8tor (#1) Techstars (#1)
Other Notable
Investors
ABRY Partners (#4), Bank of America(#4), Goldman Sachs (#4)
Debt Investors
Western Technology Investment (#5), Connecticut Innovations
(#3), Providence Equity Partners (#2)
Most Active InvestorsRecent Investments
36 43 36 32 28 10
$310M $412M
$556M
$687M $774M
$2.8B
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018*
$ Funding # Rounds
$5.8B
$3.8B
$400M
$304M
$291M
US
Europe
SEA
Canada
Australia
$ Funding
46 46
38
14
7
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018*
Y-o-Y # of Companies Founded

Summary of exit outlook in Data Center Infrastructure
Exit Outlook Summary
66
Most Active AcquirersTop Investors in Exits
Battery Ventures 4
Zayo Group (2007, Boulder, $825M)
Nutanix (2009, San Jose, $340M)
Silver Lake 3
Vantage Data Center Services (2010, South
Jordan, $125k)
Dell (1984, Round Rock)
Oak Investment
Partners
3
ADVA Optical Networking (1994, Martinsried)
Western Technology
Investment
3
Equinix (1998, Foster City, $175M)
Fusepoint Managed Services (1999,
Mississauga, $39M)
Bregal Sagemount 3
ViaWest (1999, Greenwood Village, $34M)
iWeb (1996, Montreal, $4.3M)
Sep 2017
DuPont Fabros Technology Acq by Digital Realty for
$5B
Jan 2016 TelecityGroup Acq by Equinix for $3.8B
May 2015 TelecityGroup Acq by Equinix for $3.8B
Sep 2013 Dell Acq by Silver Lake for $24.9B
Apr 2011 Savvis Acq by CenturyLink for $2.5B
Apr 2011 Savvis Acq by CenturyLink for $2.5B
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Exit Outlook Summary
Equinix 5
TelecityGroup (May 2015, $3.8B), TelecityGroup (Jan 2016,
$3.8B), Metronode (Dec 2017, $793M)
Cisco 3
Topspin Communications (Apr 2005, $250M), JouleX (May
2013, $107M), Skyport Systems (Jan 2018)
Iron Mountain 3
IO.com (Jan 2018, $1.3B), Evoswitch (May 2018, $237M), MAG
Datacenters (Jul 2017, $128M)
CyrusOne 3
Sentinel Data Centers (Mar 2017, $490M), Zenium
Technology Partners Limited (Dec 2017, $442M), Cervalis
(Apr 2015, $400M)
EMC 2 Smarts (Dec 2004, $260M), Kashya (May 2006, $153M)
Recent IPOs Top Acquisitions
Zayo Group Oct 2014
Colocation and communication infrastructu…
IPO MCap: $4.5B Current MCap: $8.5B
Asetek Aug 2014
Energy efficient cooling systems
IPO MCap: - Current MCap: -
Atlas Cloud Jul 2014
Tier 2 data center and cloud services pro…
IPO MCap: $977k Current MCap: -
Manx Telecom Feb 2014
telecommunications services and data cent…
IPO MCap: $263M Current MCap: -
Switch Oct 2017
business telecom and data center solution…
IPO MCap: $4.2B Current MCap: -
Nutanix Sep 2016
Converged Compute and storage infrastruct…
IPO MCap: $2.2B Current MCap: $9.6B
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Oct 2015
Enterprise Products and Services
IPO MCap: - Current MCap: $27.4B
Over the Wire Mar 2015
Data center and telecommunication service…
IPO MCap: $33.1M Current MCap: -

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FACTSHEET
Marketmap: Data Center Infrastructure Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > BlueBox
FIBER OPTIC CONNECTIVITY
DATA CENTER PROVIDERS
COLOCATION
MODULAR*
SDDC*
MANAGEMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
DISASTER RECOVERY
AUTOMATION & ANALYTICS
ENERGY & POWER
PERFORMANCE MONITORING
EQUIPMENT
CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
SERVERS
PERIPHERALS
Overview
Companies 922
Funded 325 Series A+ 171
Funding $11.4B Last 2 yrs $9.8B
Most Active Investors
Seed 360 Capital Partners (1)
Series A/B Intel Capital (5)
Series C+ ABS Capital (1)
Others ABRY Partners (4)
Incubators Alchemist Accelerator (1)
Top Cities
London 32 Cos $2.9B
Bay Area 71 Cos $1.4B
Feed in Numbers
Unicorns 9 Soonicorns 10
Minicorns 2 Editor Picks 29
Acquihired 99 Deadpooled 28
Top Companies
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise
(1939, Palo Alto)
Exits
IPOs 36 Zayo Group, Switch
Acquisitions 81 Dell, DuPont Fabros
Technology
Top Acquirers Equinix, Cisco

Key Sub Sectors in Data Center Infrastructure Sector
Summary of Key Markets
8
Top Markets of Investment Activity
# Cos on
Platform
Last 2 Years
$ Invested # Round
Data Center Providers >
Colocation 555 $3.4B 22
Equipment >
Converged Infrastructure 32 $193M 6
Data Center Providers >
Modular Data centers 34 $42M 5
Connectivity >
Fiber Optic Networks 63 $21.2M 4
Sub Sectors
# Cos
Tracked
#
Funded
Total
Funding
Data Center Providers
Companies that provide facilities that house servers
593 157 $7.3B
Equipment
Companies that design and manufacture accessories
and equipment for data centers
103 52 $1.5B
Connectivity
Companies that offer products that provide
connectivity in a data center
64 25 $1.3B
DC Infrastructure Management
Companies that develop tools that manage energy
consumption, environment, power, capacity...
114 64 $994M
Disaster Recovery
Companies that offer disaster recovery solutions
18 15 $231M
SDDC
Companies that offer virtualized storage, network and
compute with software defined policies
4 4 $55.7M
Listing
Companies that provides a listing of data centers in a
particular geographical area.
9 2 $4.8M
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Summary of Key Markets

List of Notable Companies in Data Center Infrastructure
Notable Companies in the Sector (1/2)
9
Note: *(Founded Year, Location, Total Funding)
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Notable Companies in the Sector
Public
Zayo Group
(2007, Boulder, $825M)*
Switch
(2000, Las Vegas)
Nutanix
(2009, San Jose, $340M)
CoreSite
(2001, Denver, $420M)
QTS
(2005, Overland Park, $25M)
CyrusOne
(2000, Carrollton)
Manx Telecom
(1986, Douglas)
Silicon Graphics
International Corp
(1999, Milpitas, $21M)
Super Micro
(1993, San Jose)
Asia Pacific Data Centre
(2013, Deal)
Public
Qualstar
(1984, Simi Valley)
NEXTDC
(2010, Brisbane)
Over the Wire
(2012, Spring Hill)
Macquarie Telecom
(1992, Sydney)
Atlas Cloud
(2013, Vancouver)
Asetek
(2000, Aalborg, $34M)
RiT Technologies
(1989, Tel Aviv, $24.4M)
CenturyLink
(1968, Monroe, $20M)
Rackwise
(2007, Folsom, $5.1M)
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise
(1939, Palo Alto)
Public
ADVA Optical
Networking
(1994, Martinsried)
EasyCall
Communications
(1989, Manila)
Promise Technology
(1988, Hsinchu)
Acer
(1987, Taipei)
Afranet
(1997, Tehran)
Black Box
(1976, Washington Boro)
Etasis Electronics
Corporation
(1996, Taipei)
Hexatronic
(1993, Gothenburg)
Ibercom
(1996, San Sebastian)
Public
KDDI
(1984, Tokyo)
Keppel Telecom
(1965, Singapore)
LanTro
(1999, Ayer Raja New Town)
One Stop Systems
(1998, Escondido)
Uniserve
(1988, Vancouver)
Vocus Communications
(1996, Sydney)
Acquired
Dell
(1984, Round Rock)
APC
(1981, West Kingston)
DuPont Fabros
Technology
(1997, Washington D.C.)
TelecityGroup
(1997, London)
TelecityGroup
(1998, Istanbul)
Savvis
(1992, Sarasota, $30M)
Savvis
(1995, St. Louis)
Interoute
(2003, London)
Interxion
(1998, Amsterdam, $568M)
Telx
(2000, New York City, $43.5M)

List of Notable Companies in Data Center Infrastructure
Notable Companies in the Sector (2/2)
10
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Notable Companies in the Sector
Acquired
ViaWest
(1999, Greenwood Village,
$34M)
Opsware
(1999, Sunnyvale, $141M)
Terremark
(1982, Miami)
IO.com
(2007, Phoenix, $311M)
Vantage Data Center
Services
(2010, South Jordan, $125k)
BladeLogic
(2001, Houston, $32M)
Metronode
(2002, Sydney)
Exodus
Communications
(1994, Santa Clara)
Sonic
(1994, Santa Rosa)
Acquired
Switch and Data
(1998, Tampa)
Q9 Networks
(1995, Toronto, $74.4M)
Latisys
(2007, Boulder)
SimpliVity
(2009, Westborough, $276M)
Peer 1 Hosting
(1999, Toronto)
Wilcon
(1998, Los Angeles)
Nextgen Group
(2003, Melbourne)
Eltek
(1971, Drammen)
Sentinel Data Centers
(2001, New York City)
Zenium Technology
Partners Limited
(2012, London)
Acquired
Neotel
(2005, Midrand)
Cervalis
(2000, Shelton)
Stratus Technologies
(1980, Maynard)
RagingWire
(2000, Sacramento)
Smarts
(1993, White Plains)
Topspin
Communications
(2000, San Francisco, $67M)
Evoswitch
(2007, Haarlem)
Alog Data Centers
(2005, Rio De Janeiro)
PlateSpin
(2003, Toronto)
BLACKIRON Data
(2012, Etobicoke)
Acquired
Metrotel
(2001, Buenos Aires)
Pivot Data Centres
(1989, Calgary)
Kashya
(2000, San Jose)
iWeb
(1996, Montreal, $4.3M)
MAG Datacenters
(2000, Denver)
Fusepoint Managed
Services
(1999, Mississauga, $39M)
Pulsant
(1998, Reading)
JouleX
(2009, Atlanta, $19M)
Dataplex
(2008, Dublin)
Unicorns
Global Switch
(1998, London, $2.8B)
Equinix
(1998, Foster City, $175M)
Digital Realty
(2004, San Francisco)

List of Notable Companies by Market in Data Center Infrastructure
Notable Companies by Market (1/10)
12
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Notable Companies by Market
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery
Kashya (2000, San Jose)
Provider of enterprise-class data replication and
data protection software
Stage: Acquired
Battery Ventures, Western Technology Investment,
Silicom Ventures
Performance Monitoring
RiT Technologies (1989, Tel Aviv, $24.4M)
IT infrastructure and data center management and
connectivity solutions
Stage: Public
Energy & Power Management
Asetek (2000, Aalborg, $34M)
Stage: Public
Northzone, Sunstone, KT Venture Group and 2
Other Investors
JouleX (2009, Atlanta, $19M)
Energy monitoring in data centers
Stage: Acquired
Sigma Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, Intel
Capital and 3 Other Investors

13
Capacity & Asset
Rackwise (2007, Folsom, $5.1M)
DCIM software suite
Stage: Public
Black Diamond Financial Group
Automation & Analytics
Opsware (1999, Sunnyvale, $141M)
Data center automation product to provision
servers
Unicorn. Stage: Acquired
Capital Group, Integral Capital Partners, The Aurora
Funds and 5 Other Investors
BladeLogic (2001, Houston, $32M)
Data Center automation of provisioning activities
Stage: Acquired
MK Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery
Ventures and 4 Other Investors
Stratus Technologies (1980, Maynard)
Cloud workload management services
Stage: Acquired
Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners
Colocation
Global Switch (1998, London, $2.8B)
Tier III Data centers and colocation services
Unicorn. Stage: Funded
International Data Corporation, Barclays, Credit
Suisse and 9 Other Investors
Colocation and communication infrastructure
services company
Stage: Public
GTCR, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Centennial
Ventures and 16 Other Investors
Interxion (1998, Amsterdam, $568M)
Data center and colocation services
Stage: Acquired
ABN AMRO Bank, Bank of America, BNP Paribas
Fortis and 8 Other Investors

14
Colocation
CoreSite (2001, Denver, $420M)
Data center and co-location services
Stage: Public
KeyBank, RBC Capital Markets, Regions Bank and 3
Other Investors
Develops and operates hyper-scale data centers
Soonicorn. Stage: Funded
Goldman Sachs, TPG
IO.com (2007, Phoenix, $311M)
Offers DataCenter and colocation services
Stage: Acquired
Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Wells Fargo and
3 Other Investors
Data Center and Colocation provider
Crosslink Capital, Putnam, Cisco and 12 Other
Investors
Colocation
Cloud hosting & Data Center solutions.
Soonicorn. Stage: Series B
Epsilon Venture Partners, ArKrit, Praveen Vegulla
and 36 Other Investors
Q9 Networks (1995, Toronto, $74.4M)
Colocation and data center services for Canada
Stage: Acquired
BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets,
Barclays and 4 Other Investors
CtrlS (2008, Hyderabad, $50M)
Provides data centers and white labeled cloud
infrastructure services
Allahabad Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Oriental
Bank Of Commerce and 7 Other Investors
Telx (2000, New York City, $43.5M)
Colocation data centers provider
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, CIT
Colocation
Mississauga, $39M)
Offers colocation and managed IT solutions
Stage: Acquired
Western Technology Investment, M/C Partners
Managed Services and Colocation
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, Solar Capital, Quilvest Private
Equity and 3 Other Investors
Savvis (1992, Sarasota, $30M)
Internet infrastructure services
Stage: Acquired
Pamlico Capital, RH Capital Partners, Gateway
Partners and 1 Other Investors
QTS (2005, Overland Park, $25M)
Data Center Infrastructure
Stage: Public
Bank of America, KeyBank, General Atlantic

15
Colocation
CenturyLink (1968, Monroe, $20M)
Technology solutions and services provider
Stage: Public
Welsh Carson Anderson Stowe, Draper Richards,
Temasek and 1 Other Investors
Cloud hosting, Server hosting and virtualization
Stage: Acquired
Goldman Sachs, Bank of Montreal, National Bank
Financial Wealth Management and 6 Other
Investors
Jordan, $125k)
Data Center Developer
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, SunTrust Robinson
Humphrey, Regions Bank and 7 Other Investors
Colocation
Digital Realty (2004, San Francisco)
Colocation and data center solutions
Castle Island Partners
Interoute (2003, London)
Europe's Largest Telecom Network
Aleph Capital Partners, Crestview Partners,
NorgesInvestor and 1 Other Investors
Compass (1995, Auckland)
Fixed line and wireless telecom services provider
Soonicorn. Stage: Unfunded
Terremark (1982, Miami)
IT and Data Centers solutions
Editor's Pick. Stage: Acquired
Silver Lake, VMware, Credit Suisse and 1 Other
Investors
Colocation
Atlas Cloud (2013, Vancouver)
Tier 2 data center and cloud services provider
Stage: Public
Rockshield Capital
Macquarie Telecom (1992, Sydney)
Colocation, managed hosting and
telecommunication
Stage: Public
Over the Wire (2012, Spring Hill)
Data center and telecommunication service
provider
Stage: Public
Savvis (1995, St. Louis)
Managed cloud hosting and data center colocation
solution
Stage: Acquired
EasyCall Communications (1989, Manila)
Business Internet connectivity provider
Stage: Public

16
Colocation
NEXTDC (2010, Brisbane)
Data center operator in Australia
Stage: Public
National Australia Bank
Pulsant (1998, Reading)
Data centres, cloud hosting services & managed
networks
Stage: Acquired
Afranet (1997, Tehran)
Datacenter and internet service provider
Stage: Public
Alog Data Centers (2005, Rio De Janeiro)
Tier III data centers in Brazil.
Stage: Acquired
Riverwood Capital
Asia Pacific Data Centre (2013, Deal)
Offers Real estate assets for IT companies.
Stage: Public
Colocation
BLACKIRON Data (2012, Etobicoke)
A pure-play provider of data centre and cloud
computing services in Canada
Stage: Acquired
Cervalis (2000, Shelton)
Colocation & managed service provider
Stage: Acquired
Bregal Sagemount
CyrusOne (2000, Carrollton)
Offers enterprise data center colocation services
Stage: Public
BMO Harris Bank, Credit Agricole CIB, Ing Capital
Markets and 3 Other Investors
Dataplex (2008, Dublin)
Colocation data center services
Stage: Acquired
DuPont Fabros Technology (1997,
Washington D.C.)
Outsourced data center management services
Stage: Acquired
Colocation
Evoswitch (2007, Haarlem)
Offers carrier-neutral data center services.
Stage: Acquired
Exodus Communications (1994, Santa Clara)
Colocation, managed hosting, enterprise cloud & IT
solutions
Stage: Acquired
Gabriel Venture Partners, eLab Ventures, MK
Capital and 5 Other Investors
Ibercom (1996, San Sebastian)
Telecommunications service to residential and
business customers, and operators
Stage: Public
Inveready
KDDI (1984, Tokyo)
Telecom and data center service provider
Stage: Public

17
Colocation
Keppel Telecom (1965, Singapore)
Telecommunication, logistics and data center
services
Stage: Public
Latisys (2007, Boulder)
Data Center colocation services
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities, SunTrust
Robinson Humphrey and 7 Other Investors
MAG Datacenters (2000, Denver)
Offers data center and colocation services
Stage: Acquired
Manx Telecom (1986, Douglas)
telecommunications services and data center
service provider
Stage: Public
HgCapital, Herald Investment Management
Metronode (2002, Sydney)
Colocation and data center facilities in Australia
Stage: Acquired
Colocation
Peer 1 Hosting (1999, Toronto)
Colocation and cloud hosting provider
Stage: Acquired
Celerity Partners, Clairvest, Maxam Capital
Pivot Data Centres (1989, Calgary)
Colocation provider in Canada
Stage: Acquired
Sverica Capital Management
RagingWire (2000, Sacramento)
Offers data center colocation
Stage: Acquired
Bank of America, Comerica
Sentinel Data Centers (2001, New York City)
Offers data centers services
Stage: Acquired
Switch (2000, Las Vegas)
business telecom and data center solutions.
Stage: Public
Orascom TMT investments
Colocation
Switch and Data (1998, Tampa)
Data center and colocation services in North
America
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, The CapStreet Group, Spring
Lake Equity Partners and 1 Other Investors
TelecityGroup (1997, London)
Data Center Provider
Stage: Acquired
Barclays, HSBC Group, Lloyds Bank and 1 Other
Investors
TelecityGroup (1998, Istanbul)
Colocation Data Centre Istanbul
Stage: Acquired
Oak Hill Capital Partners, 3i Group
Uniserve (1988, Vancouver)
High Speed Internet, Digital Phone and Web
Hosting Services
Stage: Public
Crown Capital Partners

18
Colocation
Vocus Communications (1996, Sydney)
Offers data center and telecommunication services
Stage: Public
Zenium Technology Partners Limited
(2012, London)
Data center in Europe
Stage: Acquired
Equipment
Servers
Topspin Communications (2000, San
Francisco, $67M)
Server Fabric Switches for data centers
Stage: Acquired
Meritech Capital Partners, Accel Partners, Advent
International and 4 Other Investors
Silicon Graphics International Corp (1999,
Milpitas, $21M)
High Performance Computing, and data
management.
Stage: Public
Parthenon
Enterprise solutions and consumer elecctronics
company
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit
Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (1939, Palo
Alto)
Unicorn. Stage: Public
Acer (1987, Taipei)
Multinational electronics manufacturer
Stage: Public
H&Q Asia Pacific, Sycamore Ventures, WK
Technology Fund and 3 Other Investors

19
Equipment
Peripherals
Promise Technology (1988, Hsinchu)
Storage solutions custom made for data centers
Stage: Public
APC (1981, West Kingston)
Data center peripherals
Stage: Acquired
MUFG Union Bank, Equistone Partners Europe
Black Box (1976, Washington Boro)
Offers data center accessories and IT services.
Stage: Public
Eltek (1971, Drammen)
Power System Solutions
Stage: Acquired
Altor Equity Partners, Sierra Ventures
Etasis Electronics Corporation (1996,
Taipei)
Power supply solutions to industries
Stage: Public
Birch Venture Capital
Peripherals
LanTro (1999, Ayer Raja New Town)
Cabling and Cabling Components
Stage: Public
One Stop Systems (1998, Escondido)
High performance compute appliances
Stage: Public
Tech Coast Angels
Qualstar (1984, Simi Valley)
Data Management and storage solutions
Stage: Public
Super Micro (1993, San Jose)
Designs and manufactures servers
Stage: Public
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Enspire Capital,
West Avenue Capital
Converged Infrastructure
Converged Compute and storage infrastructure
Goldman Sachs, Riverwood Capital, Morgan Stanley
SimpliVity (2009, Westborough, $276M)
Optimized IT Infrastructure Platform
Charles River Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners,
Accel Partners and 7 Other Investors
All flash hyper converged appliance
Soonicorn. Stage: Series G
S3 Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mesirow Financial

20
Equipment
Converged Infrastructure
Skyport Systems (2013, Mountain View, $67M)
Computing infrastructure for enterprise
applications
Soonicorn. Stage: Acquired
GV, Thomvest Ventures, Northgate Capital and 5
Other Investors
Connectivity
Fiber Optic Networks
Calient (1999, Goleta, $402M)
Photonic Switching Subsystems
TeleSoft Partners, Wall Street Technology Partners,
DuPont Capital Management and 14 Other
Investors
Everstream (2014, Cleveland, $50M)
Wholesale fiber connectivity services provider
M/C Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan
Stanley and 1 Other Investors
FiberZone Networks (2003, Bethesda,
$42.8M)
Fiber Infrastructure Management and testing
Automation
Soonicorn. Stage: Series C
S-Group Capital Management, Novak Biddle
Venture Partners, Portview Communications
Partners and 1 Other Investors
Metrotel (2001, Buenos Aires)
Business communication and data center services
provider
Itau BBA
ADVA Optical Networking (1994,
Martinsried)
Network equipment for data, storage, voice and
video services
Stage: Public
Oak Investment Partners, Egora Holding, Herald
Investment Management
Hexatronic (1993, Gothenburg)
Fiber-optic cable accessories and passive
equipment provider
Stage: Public
Neotel (2005, Midrand)
Wholesale fiber network connectivity services
provider
Stage: Acquired
Nedbank, Investec, DBSA and 2 Other Investors

21
Connectivity
Nextgen Group (2003, Melbourne)
Network infrastructure connectivity and data
center services provider
Stage: Acquired
Australia Singapore Cable
Smarts (1993, White Plains)
Automated data center management for virtual data
centers.
Stage: Acquired
Bessemer Venture Partners
Sonic (1994, Santa Rosa)
Broadband internet, phone and digital TV services
provider in California
Stage: Acquired
Karmel Capital, TA Associates Management
Wilcon (1998, Los Angeles)
Offers fiber & data center infrastructure solutions.
Stage: Acquired
Pamlico Capital
Migration
Migration
PlateSpin (2003, Toronto)
Physical and virtual data center management
Stage: Acquired
Insight Venture Partners, Covington Capital
Corporation

List of Notable Companies in Data Center Infrastructure in China
Notable Companies in the Sector in China
22
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Notable Companies in the Sector in China
Public
Inspur
(2004, Jinan)
Global Data Solutions
(2000, Chaoyang, $20M)
Dr Peng Telecom &
Media Group
(1985, Beijing)
Acquired
Watone Cloud Data
(2012, Hangzhou)

Recent News in Data Center Infrastructure Sector
Recent News
23
Jul 2018
Digital Realty ‘talking about $1bn acquisition’ of Brazil data centre
group, Capacity Media
Jul 2018
INCX Partners With Pi DATACENTERS for World's Fastest
Enterprise Class Crypto Exchange, PR Newswire
Jul 2018
External Controller-Based Disk Storage Market 2018-2025 Key
Players - EMC, IBM, HP, Dell, Fujitsu, Oracle, Huawei, Digital Journal
Jul 2018
GDS Holdings Limited’s $300 Million 2% Convertible Senior Notes
Offering, Global Legal Chronicle
Jul 2018
Global Projector Market Demand 2018- 3M, BenQ, Canon, Dell,
Epson, InFocus, Hitachi, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, NEC, Optoma,
Panasonic, truthweek.com
Jul 2018
Black Box shares jump on new US$10mln contract, Proactive
Investors
Jul 2018
Sentinel buys Washington Dulles Gateway for $82.5m,
DatacenterDynamics
Jul 2018
HPE SimpliVity 2600 Hyperconverged System Supports VDI, Edge
Computing, eWEEK
Jul 2018
Tripp Lite intros mobile TV cart for displays and interactive boards,
Digital Signage Today
Jul 2018
Data center REITs on the move on Digital Realty report, Seeking
Alpha
Jul 2018
Wave-Enabled Richmond to Ashburn Route Attracts New
Customers, Business Wire
Key Recent News Key Recent News
Jul 2018
Equinix’s HIT Hyperscale Business Bigger Than Previously Thought,
Data Center Knowledge
Jul 2018
Teraco commits $73m to expand South African footprint,
DatacenterDynamics
Jul 2018
Dell Launches New G3, G7, Alienware 15, 17 Gaming Laptops,
Inspiron 24 5000 AiO in India, New Delhi Television
Jul 2018 Teraco to invest R1 billion in data centre expansion, ITWeb
Jul 2018
Equinix and Omantel Enter Agreement to Build New Equinix Data
Center in Oman, PressReleasePoint
Jul 2018
Flexenclosure to deploy two new eCentres in Latin America, Capacity
Media
Jul 2018
Global Pre-amplifiers Market Top Player 2018 – Creative,
Audioengine, FiiO, Bravo Audio, Creek, V-MODA, Schiit, Sony, Talk
Daily News
Jul 2018
KDDI Brings Japanese Telecom Services Tech to Myanmar, ACN
Newswire
Jul 2018
Interactive makes dual senior executive hires in Belinda Cooney and
Nick Scholefield, CRN
Jul 2018
Apple in early phases of business alliance with Hewlett Packard
Enterprise, AppleInsider
Jul 2018
NextDC launches Google Cloud Platform connection from Sydney
data centre, iTWire
Jul 2018 Acer Enters Top End Pro Image Monitor Market, ChannelNews
Jul 2018 NextDC launches senior unsecured notes offering, Telecompaper
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Recent News

Contents
Feed Summary
Investment Trends
Market Details
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
24
Funding Trends
Median Deal Size and Trend
New Entrants in Funding Club
Distribution of companies by Funding Range
Funding Funnel of the Sector
Top Investments and Investors
Investors in Unicorn club

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$618M
$819M
$310M
$412M
$556M
$687M
$774M
$2.8B
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
$0k
$500M
$1.B
$1.5B
$2.B
$2.5B
$3.B
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018*
$ Funding # Rounds
Investments ($M) and number of rounds in Data Center Infrastructure; 2011-2018
Global Funding Trends (1/2)
26
Note: Funding excludes Grant, Debt and Post IPO rounds. Excludes all details for Chinese companies
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Global Funding Trends
#Rounds
$Funding
3 Year CAGR
6 Year CAGR 13% # of Rounds4% $ Funding
8% # of Rounds
23% $ Funding

$29M
$5M
$9M $7M $26M $4M $10M
$5M
$287M
$213M
$97M
$99M $99M
$103M
$247M
$2M
$302M $601M $204M $306M $431M $580M $517M $2.8B
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 YTD
Seed Early Stage Late Stage
19 3 8 9 11 7 6 2
13
24
17 21
13
15 13 5
14 11 11 13 12 10 9 3
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 YTD
Seed Early Stage Late Stage
46
10
Total # of Rounds
$407M
$668M
$181M $265M
$423M
$615M $705M
$2.8B
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
500000000
1E+09
1.5E+09
2E+09
2.5E+09
3E+09
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 YTD
$ Funding # of Rounds
27
Note: Mega Rounds = rounds with size > $20M. Funding excludes Grant, Debt and Post IPO rounds. Excludes all details for Chinese companies
Stage-wise Number of RoundsStage-wise $ Invested
New Entrants in Funded ClubMega Rounds
Global Funding Trends (2/2)
Investments ($M) and number of rounds in Data Center Infrastructure; 2011-2018
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Global Funding Trends
22
13
15
12
10
12
5
89
$7.5M
$5.6M
$0.0M
$2.0M
$4.0M
$6.0M
$8.0M
$10.0M
$12.0M
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 YTD Total
Entrants in Funding Club Avg. Ticket Size
7 6 4 3 6 8 6 2 $7.5M $3M $3.8M $11.1M $6.3M $6.1M $1M $5.6M
$618M
$2.8B
Total $ Invested

Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Funding Trends by Geography
Investments ($M) and number of rounds in Data Center Infrastructure
Funding Trends by Geography
Funding Trends by Geography Top Cities of Funding
City $ Funding # Rounds
London 2.9B 7
Bay Area 1.4B 87
Boulder 826M 5
Vancouver 617M 2
Amsterdam 568M 5
Goleta 402M 15
Singapore 400M 1
Austin 365M 26
Phoenix 311M 5
Canberra 285M 1
Total Funding
134
67
1
21
3
12
11
1
# Rounds
$5.8B
$3.8B
$400M
$304M
$291M
$249M
$50.7M
$22.3M
US
Europe
SEA
Canada
Australia
India
Israel
South Africa
Note: Excludes funding information of China companies

Trend of Average Deal Size ($M)
$1.8 $1.5
$1.1
$0.8
$2.3
$1.1
$1.6
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
$15.0
$3.9 $4.6 $3.8
$6.2
$8.2
$12.8
$30.4 $29.2
$10.2 $10.4 $13.7
$4.0
$61.0
$23.2
$75.1
$25.5
$34.0
$47.9
$72.5 $86.2
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Median Deal Size and Trend
Median and Average Deal Size in $M (per Stage) in Data Center Infrastructure; 2011-2017
Median Deal Size and Trend
Note: Excludes funding information of Chinese companies. *Graph not to scale
Median Deal Size and Range
$30K* $16M
$250K $75.8M
$2M $105M
$250K $2.8B
$18M
$13.5M
$3.5M
$1.2M
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed
Stage

Note: 159 companies with undisclosed funding amount are not included
30
<$1M
$1-10M
$10-50M
$50-100M
$100M+
Funding Range
13
57
67
14
20
No. of Companies
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Distribution of companies by Funding Range
No. of companies by funding range in Data Center Infrastructure; as of Jul 2018
Distribution of companies by Funding Range
$4M
$226M
$1.7B
$946M
$8.5B
$ Investment

Stage No. of Companies
Funding
Funnel
100%
35%
19%
11%
8%
31
Note: Numbers in the brackets show the count of companies
Time to raise
next round
76
103
171
325
922
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Funded
Founded
Next
Round
100M+
Valuation
Exits
Acqui-
Hired
Dead
Pooled
Others
35% 10%
(91)
9%
(84)
14%
(132)
3%
(27)
48%
(438)
53% 25%
(80)
23%
(74)
27%
(88)
4%
(14)
16%
(52)
60% 19%
(33)
16%
(27)
34%
(58)
5%
(8)
1%
(2)
74% 26%
(27)
20%
(21)
46%
(47)
5%
(5)
-24%
(-25)
- 29%
(22)
22%
(17)
43%
(33)
4%
(3)
-14%
(-11)
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Funding Funnel
Number of companies progressing to subsequent funding stages in Data Center Infrastructure
Funding Funnel
19 Months
16 Months
23 Months
Investment backedBootstrapped
10
9
73
34
Soonicorns
Unicorns
Acquisitions
IPOs

Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+, PE)
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Notable Investments in last 24 months
Major funding rounds by Stage in Data Center Infrastructure; Jul 2016-Jul 2018
Notable Investments in last 24 months (1/2)
LATE STAGE
$2.8B - PE Jul 2018
International Data Corporation
$400M - PE Feb 2017
Goldman Sachs, TPG
$67.2M - Series G Aug 2017
S3 Ventures
$41M - Series D Oct 2016
Cloud Object Storage and Converged Infrastructure
provider
Lenovo, Epsilon Venture Partners, City National
Bank, Delta Venture Lab, Intel Capital, Innovation
Network Corporation of Japan, Eight Roads
Ventures, Goldman Sachs
LATE STAGE
$25.7M - Series C Nov 2017
Nautilus Data Technologies (2013, California,
$35.7M)
Modular data center in Water
Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Emerson
Collective, Keppel
$25M - Series D Feb 2018
Cloud Object Storage and Converged Infrastructure
provider
Digital
$21.1M - Series E Sep 2016
$13.2M - Series G Aug 2017
$6.5M - Series E Aug 2016
LATE STAGE
$6M - Series G Aug 2016

Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Notable Investments in last 24 months
Major funding rounds by Stage in Data Center Infrastructure; Jul 2016-Jul 2018
Notable Investments in last 24 months (2/2)
EARLY STAGE
$90M - Series B Aug 2017
$90M - Series B Oct 2017
ROOT Data Center (2013, Montreal, $115M)
Offers co-location solutions
Goldman Sachs
$32.5M - Series A Feb 2017
Fungible (2015, Mountain View, $32.5M)
FUNGIBLE
Walden Riverwood Ventures, Battery Ventures,
Juniper Networks, Mayfield
$23M - Series A Dec 2016
Epsilon Venture Partners

Most Active Investors (VC, PE) by Stage in Data Center Infrastructure; Last 5 years (Jul 2013-Jul 2018)
Most Active VC & PE Investors
34
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Most Active VC & PE Investors
SEED STAGE
New Enterprise Associates
NodePrime
1
Crosslink Capital
NodePrime
2
Menlo Ventures
NodePrime
3
BLH Venture Partners
StrataCloud
4
Formation 8
NodePrime
5
360 Capital Partners
Containous
6
Elaia Partners
Containous
7
Initialized Capital
NodePrime
8
Demeter
Stimergy
9
Neulogy Ventures
Erigones
10
EARLY STAGE
Intel Capital (5 Investments)
Cloudian, Skyport Systems, NxtGen Datacenter
1
KPCB(2 Investments)
CloudPhysics, Pavilion Data
2
Battery Ventures
Fungible
3
Nexus Venture Partners
Arkin
4
Lightspeed Venture Partners
MosaixSoft
5
Mayfield
Fungible
6
Oak Investment Partners
ADVA Optical Networking
7
Crosslink Capital
365 Data Centers
8
Index Ventures
Skyport Systems
9
Menlo Ventures
rENIAC
10
LATE STAGE
Meritech Capital Partners
SimpliVity
1
Northgate Capital
Skyport Systems
2
First Analysis
Scale Computing
3
S3 Ventures
Pivot3
4
DFJ
SimpliVity
5
Eight Roads Ventures
Cloudian
6
Greenspring Associates
Nutanix
7
Summit Partners
Sysmaint
8
Icon Ventures
CloudPhysics
9
Cloudian
10

Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Most Active Ecosystem Investors
Top Ecosystem Investors in Data Center Infrastructure; Last 5 years (Jul 2013-Jul 2018)
Most Active Ecosystem Investors
INCUBATOR/ACCELERATOR
Alchemist Accelerator
rENIAC
1
Gener8tor
EDCS Power
2
Techstars
Mindi
3
OTHER NOTABLE INVESTORS
ABRY Partners(4 Investments)
Integra Telecom, ROOT Data Center, Xand
1
Bank of America(4 Investments)
Interxion, Cologix, QTS
2
Goldman Sachs(4 Investments)
AirTrunk, ROOT Data Center, IXcellerate
3
RBC Capital Markets(4 Investments)
CoreSite, Cologix, Vantage Data Center Services
4
Bank of America Merrill Lynch(3
Investments)
Vantage Data Center Services, Dell, Super Micro
5
Deutsche Bank(3 Investments)
Global Switch, IO.com, VIRTUS Data Centres
6
Barclays(3 Investments)
Global Switch, Vantage Data Center Services, Dell
7
KeyBank(3 Investments)
CoreSite, QTS, Vantage Data Center Services
8
TD Securities(3 Investments)
CoreSite, Cologix, Sabey Data Centers
9
Comerica(2 Investments)
Pivot3, RagingWire
10
DEBT INVESTORS
Western Technology Investment(5
Investments)
Equinix, Calient, Platform Solutions
1
Connecticut Innovations(3 Investments)
CoolIT Systems, Device42, Online Tech
2
Providence Equity Partners(2
Investments)
LogicMonitor, EdgeConneX
3
Wellington Financial(2 Investments)
Univa, Digital Fortress
4
Advantage Capital
CenturyLink
5
Ardian
Six Degrees Group
6
The Blackstone Group
Ascenty
7
Capital Finance Group
Bigstep
8
Farragut Capital Partners
Digital West Networks
9
Fortress Investment
365 Data Centers
10

Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Investors in Unicorn club
Investors in Unicorn Club (1/4)

Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Unicorn Investors in the Sector
Unicorn Investors in the Sector

Contents
Feed Summary
Investment Trend
Market Details
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
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BlueBox
Key Sub Sectors
Detailed Sector Taxonomy
Top Markets of Early Stage Investors
Other Notable Markets
Market Deep Dive

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Key Sub Sectors
44
Key Sub Sectors in Data Center Infrastructure
Market Top Companies
# Cos
Tracked
#
Funded
Total
Funding
Companies that provide facilities that house servers
Zayo Group (2007, Boulder, Public)
593 157 $7.3B
Equipment
Companies that design and manufacture accessories and equipment for data centers
Nutanix (2009, San Jose, Public)
103 52 $1.5B
Connectivity
Companies that offer products that provide connectivity in a data center
Integra Telecom (1996, Vancouver,
Acquired)
FiberZone Networks (2003, Bethesda,
$42.8M)
64 25 $1.3B
Companies that develop tools that manage energy consumption, environment, power,
capacity and assets
LogicMonitor (2008, Santa Barbara,
Acquired)
Univa (2004, Hoffman Estates, $45M)
114 64 $994M
Disaster Recovery
Companies that offer disaster recovery solutions
Marathon Technologies (1993, Littleton,
Acquired)
Infrascale (2006, El Segundo, $33.6M)
18 15 $231M
SDDC
Companies that offer virtualized storage, network and compute with software defined policies
Scalent (2002, Palo Alto, Acquired)
Pensa (2014, Mountain View, $4M)
4 4 $55.7M
Listing
Companies that provides a listing of data centers in a particular geographical area.
Inflect (2016, San Francisco, $3M)
UpStack (2016, New York City, $1.8M)
9 2 $4.8M
Testing
Companies that provide testing and benchmarking of data centers using propreitry tools
STAC Research (2009, Warrenville)
Qutrix Solution (2015, Bangalore)
2 0 -
Migration
Companies that offer data center migration and relocation services
PlateSpin (2003, Toronto, Acquired)
Transitional Data (2002, Westborough)
2 1 -
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Key Sub Sectors

Detailed Sector Taxonomy (1/2)
45
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Detailed Sector Taxonomy

Detailed Sector Taxonomy (2/2)
46
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Detailed Sector Taxonomy

Rank Market
Last 2 Years
$ Invested # Round Top Funded Company
1
(-)
Data Center Providers > Colocation
Companies that provide data center facilities with conducive environment to house servers on rental
basis
(Companies covered 555 | Funded 142 | Total Funding $7.2B)
$3.4B
(+$52.3M)
22
(-94)
Global Switch
(1998, London, $2.8B)
2
(-)
Equipment > Converged Infrastructure
Companies that offer products which operate by grouping of multiple infrastructure
$193M
(-$804M)
6
(-46)
Pivot3
(2003, Austin, $230M)
3
(+1)
Data Center Providers > Modular Data centers
Companies that provide portable data centers
(Companies covered 34 | Funded 13 | Total Funding $87.6M)
$42M
(-$3.7M)
5
(-8)
Nautilus Data
Technologies
(2013, California, $35.7M)
4
(-1)
Connectivity > Fiber Optic Networks
Companies that offer products to connect components in a data center
$21.2M
(-$1.2B)
4
(-23)
Calient
(1999, Goleta, Acquired)
47
Note: The numbers in the bracket represent the change in a 2 year period.
Top Markets by Funding in Data Center Infrastructure in last 2 years (July 2016 - June 2018)
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Top Markets of Investment Activity

Rank Market # Investments Key Investments
1
Equipment > Converged Infrastructure
Companies that offer products which operate by grouping of multiple infrastructure
(Companies created 32 | Funded 18 | Total Funding $1.2B )
1 Fungible (2015, Mountain View, $32.5M)
Note: Investors considered - Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Greylock Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Benchmark Capital, KPCB, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Founders Fund, SV Angel, Index Ventures, Bessemer
Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Venrock, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Battery Ventures
48
Top Markets of Early Stage Investors
Top Markets where Early Stage Investors are investing in last 2 years (July 2016 - June 2018)
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Top Markets of Early Stage Investors

Incubators
Seed Silver Lake (#1), Welsh Carson Anderson Stowe (#1)
Series A/B Seaport Capital (#2), Cisco (#2)
Series C+ Goldman Sachs (#1), Digital Realty (#1)
Evoswitch May - 2018
Acq by Iron Mountain for $237M
Interoute Mar - 2018
Acq by GTT Communications for $2.3B
IO.com Jan - 2018
Acq by Iron Mountain for $1.3B
Zenium Technology Partners
Limited Dec - 2017
Acq by CyrusOne for $442M
Metronode Dec - 2017
Acq by Equinix for $793M
Switch Oct - 2017
IPO'd
$2.8B - PE
PE
QuadraNet (2001, Los Angeles)
Series A
Etix Everywhere (2012, Luxembourg,
$16.5M)
Series A
Aligned Energy (2003, Danbury)
Series A
RackAfrica (2011, Accra)
Series A
eStruxture (2017, Montreal)
Sep 2017
Equinix Announces Pricing of €1.0 billion Senior Notes
Offering, PR Newswire
Oct 2017 CyrusOne Reports Third Quarter 2017 Earnings, Business Wire
Jul 2017 Zayo Group Holdings purchases renewable energy, BizWest
Oct 2017 One issuer raises US$400m in primary market, Indiatimes
Jul 2017
QTS reports financial results with a renewed focus on
hyperscale customers, DataCenterNews
Sep 2017
Digital Realty Continues Its Australia Expansion With Data
Centre Development In Western Sydney, Technology Marketing
Corporation
Sep 2017
Advania Data Centers expand HPCaaS cloud in Iceland to
answer increased customer demand, PRWeb
Sep 2017
Switch’s Planned $500M Offering Would Be Year’s Third-
Largest Tech IPO, Data Center Knowledge
Aug 2017
Iron Mountain in $128m bid for Denver colocation firm
Fortrust, Capacity Media
Sep 2017
DataSite Deploys High Performance Computing Solution for
an Enterprise Customer in Orlando, Marketwired
Aug 2017
NextDC's $172 million data centre acquisition approved by
Asia Pacific Data Centres, CRN
Sep 2017
C Spire and RoundTower Technologies Forge Alliance,
StorageNewsletter
Jun 2017
Hydro66 is tripling capacity of its data center campus in
North Sweden, DatacenterDynamics
Aug 2017
CenturyLink expands broadband in Neah Bay community,
Telecompaper
News
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
$0k
$500M
$1.B
$1.5B
$2.B
$2.5B
$3.B
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
YoY Funding Rounds
63
37
72
142
555
M&A/IPO
Series C+
Series A+
Funded
Companies
Covered
Funding Funnel
Data Center Providers > Colocation: Market Factsheet
49
Exits
Recent Investments
YoY Funding and Rounds
Companies that provide data
center facilities with conducive
environment to house servers on
rental basis
Global Switch
(1998, London, $2.8B)
AirTrunk
(2014, Singapore, $400M)
IO.com
(2007, Phoenix, $311M)
Canberra Data Centres
(2007, Canberra, $285M)
Pi DATACENTERS
(2014, Hyderabad, $118M)
Top Companies
#1 Top Markets of Investment Activity
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Colocation
Companies Created 555 | Funded 142 | Total Funding $7.2B
Market: Colocation

Data Center Providers > Colocation: Top Companies
Market: Colocation (1/2)
Analyst’s Pick
Unicorn. Stage: Funded
International Data Corporation, Barclays, Credit
Goldman Sachs, TPG
Crosslink Capital, Putnam, Cisco and 12 Other
Investors
Soonicorn. Stage: Series B
Epsilon Venture Partners, ArKrit, Praveen Vegulla
Analyst’s Pick
CtrlS (2008, Hyderabad, $50M)
Provides data centers and white labeled cloud
infrastructure services
Allahabad Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Oriental
Bank Of Commerce and 7 Other Investors
3S Group (2002, Katowice, $24.6M)
DataCenter colocation and Service Provider
Minicorn. Stage: Funded
Enterprise Investors
ESDS (2005, Nashik, $4M)
Cloud hosting & data centre solutions for
businesses
Minicorn. Stage: Series A
Canbank Venture Capital Fund, KfW Bankengruppe,
SIDBI
Castle Island Partners
Analyst’s Pick
Aleph Capital Partners, Crestview Partners,
NorgesInvestor, GTT Communications
Compass (1995, Auckland)
Fixed line and wireless telecom services provider
Soonicorn. Stage: Unfunded
BT Ireland (1990, Dublin)
Communications and IT services provider
Editor's Pick. Stage: Seed
Advent International
C Spire (1988, Ridgeland)
Mobile communication and fiber broadband
services provider
Editor's Pick. Stage: Unfunded
IP-Only (1999, Uppsala)
Nordic Fiber Internet and Data Center Providers
Acacia

Data Center Providers > Colocation: Top Companies
Market: Colocation (2/2)
Analyst’s Pick
Silver Lake, VMware, Credit Suisse, Ocean Bank

Note: Overall Rating is a combination of Funding and Team rating, along with Execution, Size and Growth metrics
52
Data Center Providers > Colocation: Leaderboard
Better than Market Average
Market: Colocation
Overall
Rating
Company
Name
Foun
ded
Year
Location Stage Funding Team
Execution Quality Size Metrics 6M Growth Metrics
App
Rating
App
UX
Web
UX
News
Web
Traffic
Rank
Social
Follow
ing
Mobile
Downl
oads
# App
Revie
ws
Web Traffic
Rank
Mobile
Downloads
Social
Following
Δ % Δ % Δ %
5.0 QTS 2005
Overland
Park
Public $25M - 5 - - 39 508k 3.3k 300 2 164k 48% 1 100% 123 4%
5.0
Pi
DATACENTER
S
2014 Hyderabad Series B $118M - 5 - - 10 2.1M 2.2k 300 11 2M 180% 1 10% 973 80%
5.0 Equinix 1998 Foster City Acquired $175M - 4 - - 120 47k 21k 8k 27 1k 2% 1 4% 536 3%
5.0 CenturyLink 1968 Monroe Public $20M - 2 - - 161 5k 28k 415k 2.3k 1k 15% 376 20% 1.3k 5%
5.0 Cogeco Peer 1999 Toronto Unfunded - - 4 - - 8 293k 8.7k 75k 834 68k 30% 14 2% 83 1%
5.0
Hurricane
Electric
1994 Fremont Funded $13M - 5 - - 17 24k - 330k 3.1k 3k 12% 33 1% - -
4.9 IO.com 2007 Phoenix Acquired $311M - 4 - - 8 821k - 301k 189 170k 26% 127 201% - -
4.9 Antel 1974 Montevideo Unfunded - - 4 - - 4 70k 169k 7.1M 13.1k -5k -6% 2.2k 20% 1.8k 1%
4.9 C Spire 1988 Ridgeland Unfunded - - 4 - - 31 154k 16k 754k 1.5k 1k 1% 112 8% 300 2%
4.9 KIO Networks 2002 San Diego Funded - - 3 - - 4 828k 6.8k 4k 54 -93k -10% 25 83% 312 5%
4.9 KDDI 1984 Tokyo Public - - 3 - - 61 15k - 10.1M 8.5k 1k 7% 871 11% - -
4.9
4D Data
Centres
1999 Byfleet Unfunded - - 5 - - 1 4.2M 1.2k 300 3 2M 72% - - 204 22%
4.9
NxtGen
Datacenter
2012 Bangalore Series B $37.7M - 4 - - 3 1.2M 27 4k 69 347k 45% - - 1 4%
4.9 GCOMM 1996
Surfers
Paradise
Unfunded - - 5 - - - 2.9M 141 30 2 3M 198% - - 3 1%

Incubators
Seed Accel Partners (#1), Charles River Ventures (#1)
Series A/B KPCB (#2), Intel Capital (#2)
Series C+ Northgate Capital (#2), Battery Ventures (#1)
Skyport Systems Jan - 2018
Acq by Cisco
$25M - Series D
$67.2M - Series G
$32.5M - Series A
Fungible (2015, Mountain View,
$32.5M)
$41M - Series D
$21.1M - Series E
$6.5M - Series E
$30M - Series C
Skyport Systems (2013, Mountain
View, $67M)
$15M - Series A
Pavilion Data (2014, Saratoga, $15M)
$18M - Series E
Scale Computing (2006, Indianapolis,
$69M)
$30M - Series B
Skyport Systems (2013, Mountain
View, $67M)
Sep 2017
Cloudian Joins Cisco In Targeting Media and Entertainment
Industry as part of the Cisco Media Blueprint, Marketwired
Apr 2010
Pivot3 Funding Round Jumps to $29 Million with New
Investor, Pivot3
Sep 2017
Queensland’s Metro North Hospital and Health Service
Reduces Costs and Improves Patient Care With Nutanix,
Business Wire
Jun 2017
Nutanix duplicates its hyperconverged technology stack in
the cloud, SiliconAngle
Jul 2017
Nutanix teams up with Google Cloud to fuse cloud
environments for enterprise apps, The Nation
Jul 2017
Nutanix launches OS for hybrid cloud environments, Telecom
Asia
Oct 2017
Nutanix, Google Cloud team up for enterprise apps, Trade
Arabia
Jul 2017
Cloudian HyperForce Partners Channel Program,
StorageNewsletter
Aug 2017
HPE Americas Channel VP: SimpliVity Sales Momentum Is
Off Charts, Surpassing Initial Aruba, 3Par Sales Strength, CRN
Dec 2017
Nutanix CEO Turns to Open Source Software for Hybrid
Cloud Stack, SDxCentral
Sep 2017
Kontron to do the 2-step with broadcasters at IBC 2017,
PressReleasePoint
Sep 2017
Scale Computing & Google Cloud Collaborate On HC3 Cloud
Unity, Storage Review
News
0
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6
8
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
YoY Funding Rounds
3
6
12
18
32
M&A/IPO
Series C+
Series A+
Funded
Companies
Covered
Funding Funnel
Equipment > Converged Infrastructure: Market Factsheet
53
Exits
Recent Investments
Companies that offer products
which operate by grouping of
multiple infrastructure
SimpliVity
(2009, Westborough, $276M)
Pivot3
(2003, Austin, $230M)
Cloudian
Scale Computing
(2006, Indianapolis, $69M)
Skyport Systems
(2013, Mountain View, $67M)
Top Companies
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Converged Infrastructure
Market: Converged Infrastructure

Equipment > Converged Infrastructure: Top Companies
Analyst’s Pick
Goldman Sachs, Riverwood Capital, Morgan Stanley
Charles River Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners,
Accel Partners and 7 Other Investors
Soonicorn. Stage: Series G
S3 Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mesirow Financial
applications
GV, Thomvest Ventures, Northgate Capital and 5
Other Investors

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Equipment > Converged Infrastructure: Leaderboard
Overall
Rating
Company
Name
Foun
ded
Year
App
Rating
App
UX
Web
UX
News
Web
Traffic
Rank
Social
Follow
ing
Mobile
Downl
oads
# App
Revie
ws
Web Traffic
Rank
Mobile
Downloads
Social
Following
Δ % Δ % Δ %
5.0 Nutanix 2009 San Jose Public $340M - 5 - - 114 39k 78k 3k 41 -13k -24% 4 8% 5.8k 8%
4.8 Green IT Globe 2012 Dubai Unfunded - - 5 - - - 10M 67 405 13 15M 283% 9 170% -2 -3%
4.6
Skyport
Systems
2013
Mountain
View
Acquired $67M 4 - - 4 4 3.8M - - - 280M
6994
%
- - - -
4.4
Scale
Computing
2006
Indianapoli
s
Series E $69M - - - - 31 547k 3.6k - - -1.2M -68% - - 36 1%
4.3
StarWind
Software
2008 Wakefield Series A - - - - - 2 134k 6.2k - - -44k -25% - - 201 3%
4.1 Pivot3 2003 Austin Series G $230M - - - - 22 1.2M - - - 136k 14% - - - -
3.9 SimpliVity 2009
Westborou
gh
Acquired $276M 5 - - - 10 1.4M - - - 307k 30% - - - -
3.7 VxRail 2016 Richardson Unfunded - - - - 4 - 10M 517 - - -1.3M -9% - - 119 30%
3.5 FlexPod 2005 San Jose Unfunded - - - - 3 - 5.4M 11k - -
-
1662.
2M
-
100%
- - 764 7%
3.3 Savage 2010
New York
City
Seed $588k - - - - - 10M 169 - - 5M 50% - - -1 -1%
3.1 Kaleao 2015 Heraklion Unfunded - - - - 4 4 3.2M 92 - - -2.1M -39% - - 11 13%
2.8 Cloudian 2011 Foster City Series D $107M - - - - 33 600k - - - -31k -5% - - - -
2.8 Connectloud 2013 Dallas Series A $4.4M - - - - - 3.1M 1.5k - -
-
10.6M
-77% - - -19 -1%

Incubators
Seed Industrifonden (#1), Comcast Ventures (#1)
Series A/B IFC (#1), Second AP Fund (#1)
Series C+
Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (#1), Emerson Collective
(#1)
Flexenclosure Jun - 2007
Acq by Pegroco Invest
$3M - Seed
EdgeMicro (2017, Denver, $3M)
$25.7M - Series C
California, $35.7M)
$10M - Series C
California, $35.7M)
$2.3M - Seed
Cinnos (2013, Hamilton, $2.3M)
$1M - Series A
DartPoints (2012, Dallas, $5.5M)
Series A
Vapor (2015, Austin)
$1.5M - Seed
Series A
Keystone NAP (2013, Fairless Hills)
$1.5M - Seed
$24M - Series B
Flexenclosure (1989, Stockholm,
$34.6M)
Dec 2015
Vapor IO Secures Series A Funding for Industry’s First Hyper
Collapsed Disaggregated Data Center Solution, Vapor
Oct 2017
Vapor IO to Start Offering Data Center Capacity at Wireless
Network Towers, Bizety
Jul 2017
EdgeConneX and Telia Carrier partner to improve end user
experience, Capacity Media
Mar 2015
Bucks County Commissioners Join Bucks County IDA to
Announce $2 Million Financing for Keystone NAP, Keystone
NAP
Aug 2017
Instant Data Centers Names Gavin Miller as its New Owner,
ACCESSWIRE
Sep 2017
Keppel T&T invests in data centre startup Nautilus, Singapore
Business Review
Dec 2017
Digital Realty, DuPont Fabros former acquisitions VP to lead
micro edge data centre business, Data Economy
Dec 2017
Flexenclosure, Virtutel to deploy up to 20 data centres in
Australia, Telecompaper
Sep 2017
EdgeConneX® and Cedexis Announce Whitepaper
Demonstrating Performance Benefits of Caching and Cloud
Connectivity at the Network Edge, Marketwired
Jun 2017 Vapor IO Introduces Colo On The Edge, CRN
Dec 2017
Vapor IO Introduces Kinetic Edge and Vapor Edge Module,
Business Wire
Oct 2017
Colombia’s TigoUne gets modular data center in Bogotá,
built by Flexenclosure, DatacenterDynamics
Aug 2017
Sacramento-IX builds node in EdgeConneX Sacramento Edge
Data Center, Lightwave Online
News
0
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M&A/IPO
Series C+
Series A+
Funded
Companies
Covered
Funding Funnel
Data Center Providers > Modular Data centers: Market Factsheet
56
Exits
Recent Investments
Companies that provide portable
data centers
Nautilus Data Technologies
(2013, California, $35.7M)
Flexenclosure
(1989, Stockholm, $34.6M)
EdgeConneX
(2009, Herndon, $6.5M)
DartPoints
(2012, Dallas, $5.5M)
EdgeMicro
(2017, Denver, $3M)
Top Companies
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Modular Data centers
Companies Created 34 | Funded 13 | Total Funding $87.6M
Market: Modular Data centers

57
Data Center Providers > Modular Data centers: Leaderboard
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Modular Data centers
Market: Modular Data centers
Overall
Rating
Company
Name
Foun
ded
Year
App
Rating
App
UX
Web
UX
News
Web
Traffic
Rank
Social
Follow
ing
Mobile
Downl
oads
# App
Revie
ws
Web Traffic
Rank
Mobile
Downloads
Social
Following
Δ % Δ % Δ %
5.0 Rittal 1961 Herborn Unfunded - - 4 3 4 3 83k - 8k 73 -3k -3% 2 3% - -
4.8 Flexenclosure 1989 Stockholm Acquired $34.6M - - - - 11 3.6M 550 - - 2M 85% - - 43 8%
4.7 EdgeMicro 2017 Denver Seed $3M - - - 3 2 10M 38 - - - - - - 93
-
169%
4.5 EdgeConneX 2009 Herndon Seed $6.5M - - - - 20 2.3M 2k - - 28k 1% - - 178 10%
4.4
Nautilus Data
Technologies
2013 California Series C $35.7M - - - - 3 10M 204 - - 4M 49% - - 2 1%
4.2 Cannon Tech 1978 New Milton Funded - - - - 4 1 7M 964 - - -2.7M -27% - - 29 3%
4.1
Datacenter
Den Haag
2010 The Hague Unfunded - - - - 4 - - 221 - - - - - - 4 2%
3.9
Workspace
Technology
2004
Sutton
Coldfield
Unfunded - - - - 4 - 10M 3k - - 24k - - - 47 2%
3.8 Tierx 2016
Milton
Keynes
Unfunded - - - - 3 - - 164 - - - - - - 30 22%
3.6 Vapor 2015 Austin Series A - - - - - 12 2.6M 937 - - -1.4M -37% - - 338 56%
3.4 Cinnos 2013 Hamilton Seed $2.3M - - - - 1 10M 110 - - 44M 490% - - -2 -2%
3.3 DartPoints 2012 Dallas Series A $5.5M - - - - 3 5.6M 88 - - -3.3M -40% - - 13 16%
3.1 Baselayer 2011 Chandler Funded - - - - - - 2.5M 792 - - -658k -19% - - 6 1%
3.0 Gemelo 2001 Cotia Series A - - - - 4 - 10M 11 - - -2.3M -12% - - - -

Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Fiber Optic Networks
Market: Fiber Optic Networks

Public Companies
Contents
Feed Summary
Investment Trend
Market Details
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
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Notable Acquisitions
Top Acquirers
Acqui-hires

Public companies (1/4)
63
Performance indicators of public companies in Data Center Infrastructure
IPO Date Company
Current
MCap
IPO
Mcap
Revenue P/E
Exchange
Ticker
Oct 2017
Switch (2000, Las Vegas)
business telecom and data center solutions.
$4.2B SWCH
Nov 2016
Global Data Solutions (2000, Chaoyang)
Leading provider of high-performance data center infrastructure
$4.8B $941M $152M GDS
Sep 2016
Nutanix (2009, San Jose)
$9.6B $2.2B $767M NASDAQ:NTNX
Oct 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (1939, Palo Alto)
$27.4B $50.1B 48.12 NYSE:HPE
Mar 2015
Over the Wire (2012, Spring Hill)
Data center and telecommunication service provider
$33.1M $17.8M 31.25 ASX:OTW
Oct 2014
Zayo Group (2007, Boulder)
Colocation and communication infrastructure services company
$8.5B $4.5B $2.2B 65.61 NYSE:ZAYO
Aug 2014
Asetek (2000, Aalborg)
$51M OSE:ASETEK
Jul 2014
Atlas Cloud (2013, Vancouver)
Tier 2 data center and cloud services provider
$977k $233k CNSX:AKE
Feb 2014
Manx Telecom (1986, Douglas)
telecommunications services and data center service provider
$263M $100M 18.3 LON:MANX
Data Center Infrastructure > Exit Outlook > Public Companies

64
IPO Date Company
Current
MCap
IPO
Mcap
Revenue P/E
Exchange
Ticker
Oct 2013
QTS (2005, Overland Park)
Data Center Infrastructure
$734M $402M NYSE:QTS
Sep 2013
Asia Pacific Data Centre (2013, Deal)
Offers Real estate assets for IT companies.
$103M $30.2M 2.19 ASX:AJD
Jan 2013
CyrusOne (2000, Carrollton)
Offers enterprise data center colocation services
$369M $529M NASDAQ:CONE
Dec 2010
One Stop Systems (1998, Escondido)
High performance compute appliances
OSS
Dec 2010
NEXTDC (2010, Brisbane)
Data center operator in Australia
$78.8M $95.1M 184.12 ASX:NXT
Sep 2010
CoreSite (2001, Denver)
Data center and co-location services
$734M $400M WSE:COR
Mar 2007
Super Micro (1993, San Jose)
Designs and manufactures servers
$1.2B $229M $2.2B 17.61 NASDAQ:SMCI
Jun 2005
Silicon Graphics International Corp (1999, Milpitas)
High Performance Computing, and data management.
$240M $533M NASDAQ:RACK
Jun 2000
Qualstar (1984, Simi Valley)
Data Management and storage solutions
$20.1M $84.9M $9.4M 17.41 NASDAQ:QBAK
Oct 1999
Vocus Communications (1996, Sydney)
Offers data center and telecommunication services
$1.2B ASX:VOC

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IPO Date Company
Current
MCap
IPO
Mcap
Revenue P/E
Exchange
Ticker
Sep 1999
Macquarie Telecom (1992, Sydney)
Colocation, managed hosting and telecommunication
$26.2M 24.96 ASX:MAQ
Mar 1999
ADVA Optical Networking (1994, Martinsried)
Network equipment for data, storage, voice and video services
$599M FRA:ADV
Sep 1996
Acer (1987, Taipei)
Multinational electronics manufacturer
$7.2B 21.83 TPE:2353
Jan 1994
Dr Peng Telecom & Media Group (1985, Beijing)
Internet broadband services provider
$5.3M CH
Sep 1993
KDDI (1984, Tokyo)
Telecom and data center service provider
TYO:9433
Dec 1992
Black Box (1976, Washington Boro)
Offers data center accessories and IT services.
$40.9M $856M NASDAQ:BBOX
Aug 1988
CenturyLink (1968, Monroe)
Technology solutions and services provider
$20.8B $17.5B 58.85 NYSE:CTL
RiT Technologies (1989, Tel Aviv)
IT infrastructure and data center management and connectivity
solutions
Rackwise (2007, Folsom)
DCIM software suite
Promise Technology (1988, Hsinchu)
Storage solutions custom made for data centers

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IPO Date Company
Current
MCap
IPO
Mcap
Revenue P/E
Exchange
Ticker
Inspur (2004, Jinan)
Supplier of Compute Platforms to Enterprises
Afranet (1997, Tehran)
Datacenter and internet service provider
Uniserve (1988, Vancouver)
High Speed Internet, Digital Phone and Web Hosting Services
$5.3M CVE:USS
Ibercom (1996, San Sebastian)
Telecommunications service to residential and business customers,
and operators
$424M BME:MAS
LanTro (1999, Ayer Raja New Town)
Cabling and Cabling Components
Hexatronic (1993, Gothenburg)
Fiber-optic cable accessories and passive equipment provider
Keppel Telecom (1965, Singapore)
Telecommunication, logistics and data center services
$134M SGX:K11
EasyCall Communications (1989, Manila)
Business Internet connectivity provider
Etasis Electronics Corporation (1996, Taipei)
Power supply solutions to industries

Notable Acquisitions (1/7)
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Notable Acquisitions in Data Center Infrastructure
Data Center Infrastructure > Exit Outlook > Notable Acquisitions
2018 YTD
Acquirer: Iron Mountain Deal: $237M
Evoswitch (2007, Haarlem)
Offers carrier-neutral data center services.
Acquirer: Kaseya
Unitrends (1989, Burlington, $22.6M)
Integrated backup and disaster recovery solutions
Acquirer: Vista Equity Partners
LogicMonitor (2008, Santa Barbara, $152M)
Cloud-Based Performance Monitoring
Acquirer: GTT Communications
Deal: $2.3B
Acquirer: AMP Capital
Everstream (2014, Cleveland, $50M)
Wholesale fiber connectivity services provider
2018 YTD
Acquirer: Cisco
applications
Acquirer: Iron Mountain Deal: $1.3B
IO.com (2007, Phoenix, $311M)
Offers DataCenter and colocation services
2017
Acquirer: The Blackstone Group
Deal: $190M
Metrotel (2001, Buenos Aires)
Business communication and data center services
provider
Acquirer: CyrusOne Deal: $442M
Zenium Technology Partners Limited
(2012, London)
Data center in Europe
Acquirer: Equinix Deal: $793M
Metronode (2002, Sydney)
Colocation and data center facilities in Australia
Acquirer: Digital Realty Deal: $5B
DuPont Fabros Technology (1997,
Washington D.C.)
Outsourced data center management services
Acquirer: Keppel DC REIT Deal: $101M
Dataplex (2008, Dublin)
Colocation data center services

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2017
Acquirer: Chunxing Precision Mechanical
Acquirer: Peak 10 Deal: $1.7B
Managed Services and Colocation
Acquirer: Iron Mountain Deal: $128M
MAG Datacenters (2000, Denver)
Offers data center and colocation services
Acquirer: Crown Castle Deal: $600M
Wilcon (1998, Los Angeles)
Offers fiber & data center infrastructure solutions.
Acquirer: Zayo Group
Integra Telecom (1996, Vancouver, $617M)
Provides facilities-based communications and
network services
Sentinel Data Centers (2001, New York City)
Offers data centers services
2017
Acquirer: Stonepeak Infrastructure
Partners
Cologix (2010, Denver, $75.8M)
Data center colocation services and
interconnection
Acquirer: Digital Bridge Holdings
Deal: $1B
Jordan, $125k)
Data Center Developer
Acquirer: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Deal: $650M
Acquirer: DataBank
C7 Data Centers (1995, Lindon, $34M)
data center colocation, cloud and IT services
2016
Acquirer: Virtual Instruments
Xangati (2006, San Jose, $21.7M)
Data center environment analytics and performance
monitoring platform
Acquirer: ALA Services LLC
Adaptive Computing (2001, Provo, $20M)
Provides intelligent automation software for HPC,
data center and cloud environments
Acquirer: BCE Deal: $675M
Q9 Networks (1995, Toronto, $74.4M)
Colocation and data center services for Canada
Acquirer: Vocus Deal: $534M
Nextgen Group (2003, Melbourne)
Network infrastructure connectivity and data center
services provider
Acquirer: Liquid Telecom Deal: $428M
Neotel (2005, Midrand)
Wholesale fiber network connectivity services
provider

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2016
Acquirer: VMware
Arkin (2013, Santa Clara, $22M)
IT operations monitoring for data centers
Acquirer: Pulsant
Onyx Group (1994, Stockton-on-tees, $25.7M)
Offers comprehensive Data Centre and IT
infrastructure services.
Acquirer: Equinix Deal: $3.8B
TelecityGroup (1998, Istanbul)
Colocation Data Centre Istanbul
2015
Acquirer: Delta Electronics Deal: $530M
Eltek (1971, Drammen)
Power System Solutions
Acquirer: Barracuda Deal: $65M
Intronis (2003, Chelmsford, $20.9M)
Data protection solutions
Acquirer: Digital Realty Deal: $1.9B
Telx (2000, New York City, $43.5M)
Colocation data centers provider
Acquirer: Charlesbank Capital Partners
Six Degrees Group (2011, London, $106M)
Managed Data Services Provider
Acquirer: Equinix Deal: $3.8B
TelecityGroup (1997, London)
Data Center Provider
Cervalis (2000, Shelton)
Colocation & managed service provider
2015
Acquirer: TelecityGroup Deal: $2.2B
Interxion (1998, Amsterdam, $568M)
Data center and colocation services
Acquirer: Zayo Group Deal: $675M
Latisys (2007, Boulder)
Data Center colocation services

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2014
Acquirer: HEG
Intergenia (1999, Georgiana, $53.5M)
Data center hosting and Web hosting services
Acquirer: Permira investment
Teraco (2007, Johannesburg, $22.3M)
Vendor Neutral Data Center Infrastructure in South
Africa
Acquirer: Ericsson
Sentilla (2003, Redwood City, $28.5M)
Cloud performance management and data analytics
solutions provider
Acquirer: Ericsson
Sentilla (2003, Redwood City, $28.5M)
Cloud performance management and data center
infrastructure management solutions provider
Alog Data Centers (2005, Rio De Janeiro)
Tier III data centers in Brazil.
2014
Acquirer: Microsoft
InMage Systems (2002, San Jose, $38.3M)
Cloud-based disaster recovery and business
continuity
Acquirer: GI Partners
Peak 10 (2000, Charlotte, $22M)
Offers cloud computing solutions, managed data
center services and private network services
Acquirer: KIO Networks
redIT (1996, Santa Fe, $72M)
Offers high capacity data centers.
Acquirer: Oak Hill Capital Partners
Deal: $110M
Pulsant (1998, Reading)
Data centres, cloud hosting services & managed
networks
Acquirer: Panduit
SynapSense (2006, Folsom, $44.5M)
Wireless cooling and data center asset monitoring
solution.
2014
Acquirer: Siris Capital Deal: $352M
Stratus Technologies (1980, Maynard)
Cloud workload management services
Acquirer: NTT communications
Deal: $350M
RagingWire (2000, Sacramento)
Offers data center colocation

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2013
Acquirer: Internap Deal: $145M
Cloud hosting, Server hosting and virtualization
Acquirer: Rogers Communications
Deal: $155M
Pivot Data Centres (1989, Calgary)
Colocation provider in Canada
Acquirer: Silver Lake Deal: $24.9B
Enterprise solutions and consumer elecctronics
company
Acquirer: Cisco Deal: $107M
JouleX (2009, Atlanta, $19M)
Energy monitoring in data centers
Acquirer: Rogers Communications
Deal: $200M
BLACKIRON Data (2012, Etobicoke)
A pure-play provider of data centre and cloud
computing services in Canada
2013
Acquirer: Cogeco Deal: $635M
Peer 1 Hosting (1999, Toronto)
Colocation and cloud hosting provider
2012
Acquirer: Stratus Technologies
Marathon Technologies (1993, Littleton,
$85.3M)
Disaster recovery and fault tolerance
Acquirer: 365 Data Centers
Acquirer: Cequel III
TierPoint (2010, Liberty Lake, $49M)
Colocation services provider & Disaster recovery.
Acquirer: NTT communications
Netmagic Solutions (1999, Mumbai, $39.9M)
Colocation and infrastructure services like data
center design and planning.

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2011
Acquirer: CenturyLink Deal: $2.5B
Savvis (1992, Sarasota, $30M)
Internet infrastructure services
Acquirer: CenturyLink Deal: $2.5B
Savvis (1995, St. Louis)
Managed cloud hosting and data center colocation
solution
Acquirer: Verizon Deal: $1.4B
Acquirer: NetApp Deal: $60M
Akorri (2005, Littleton, $53.7M)
Storage and virtualization management software
solutions in data center
2010
Acquirer: Rovi Deal: $720M
Sonic (1994, Santa Rosa)
Broadband internet, phone and digital TV services
provider in California
Acquirer: Dell
Scalent (2002, Palo Alto, $27M)
Virtualization software
Acquirer: Savvis Deal: $125M
Mississauga, $39M)
Offers colocation and managed IT solutions
2009
Switch and Data (1998, Tampa)
Data center and colocation services in North
America

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Before 2008
Acquirer: IBM
Platform Solutions (1999, Sunnyvale, $37M)
Mainframe computers compatible with data center
environments
Acquirer: BMC Software Deal: $800M
BladeLogic (2001, Houston, $32M)
Data Center automation of provisioning activities
Acquirer: Novell Deal: $205M
PlateSpin (2003, Toronto)
Physical and virtual data center management
Acquirer: Hewlett-Packard Deal: $1.6B
Opsware (1999, Sunnyvale, $141M)
Data center automation product to provision
servers
Acquirer: Pegroco Invest
Flexenclosure (1989, Stockholm, $34.6M)
Prefabricated energy efficient data centre buildings
Before 2008
Acquirer: Global Capacity
CentrePath (2000, Waltham, $179M)
Data center networking solutions
Acquirer: Schneider Electric Deal: $6.1B
APC (1981, West Kingston)
Data center peripherals
Acquirer: EMC Deal: $153M
Kashya (2000, San Jose)
Provider of enterprise-class data replication and
data protection software
Acquirer: Cisco Deal: $250M
Topspin Communications (2000, San
Francisco, $67M)
Server Fabric Switches for data centers
Acquirer: EMC Deal: $260M
Smarts (1993, White Plains)
Automated data center management for virtual data
centers.
Before 2008
Acquirer: Sanmina
Newisys - A Division of Sanmina
Corporation (2000, San Jose, $55M)
Designs and manufactures server and storage
solutions for data centers
Acquirer: CW Clear Contact Deal: $750M
Exodus Communications (1994, Santa Clara)
Colocation, managed hosting, enterprise cloud & IT
solutions
Acquirer: GI Partners

Most Active Acquirers
74
Data Center Infrastructure > Exit Outlook > Most Active Acquirers

Date Target
Aug-16
Elliptical Mobile Solutions Acq by
Managed Admin
Aug-16 Sysmaint Acq by Partners Group
Jul-16
DataBank Acq by Digital Bridge
Holdings
Jul-16
Oxford Networks Acq by Oak Hill Capital
Partners
Jul-16 Datacenter101 Acq by Lightower
Apr-16 Linxtelecom Acq by CITIC Telecom CPC
Apr-16 NodePrime Acq by Ericsson
Feb-16 Fieldview Solutions Acq by Nlyte
Jan-16 City Lifeline Acq by Redcentric
Jan-16 Cosentry Acq by TierPoint
Dec-15
Clearview International Acq by Zayo
Group
Dec-15 Altered Scale Acq by TierPoint
Dec-15 Bit-isle Acq by Equinix
Dec-15
Computer Concepts Limited Acq by
Spark
Acqui-hires (1/2)
75
List of Acqui-hires in Data Center Infrastructure
Excludes all details for Chinese companies
Date Target
Jun-18 TekLinks Acq by C Spire
Mar-18
Kolos Acq by HIVE Blockchain
Technologies
Feb-18
FirstLight Acq by Antin Infrastructure
Partners
Feb-18 Cyberverse Acq by Evocative
Feb-18 Kolotek Acq by eStruxture
Feb-18 Online Tech Acq by Schurz
Jan-18 ICT-Center Acq by GI Partners
Dec-17 DAMAC Acq by Maysteel
Oct-17
Hiawatha Broadband Communications
Acq by Schurz
Oct-17
VIRTUS Data Centres Acq by ST
Telemedia Global Data Centres
Sep-17 Cloudigo Networks Acq by IBM
Sep-17
Finger Lakes Technologies Group Acq by
FirstLight
Sep-17 Oz Servers Acq by ServersAustralia
Date Target
Sep-17 Exigent Acq by Fluccs
Jun-17 TNW Networks Acq by united corp
Jun-17 Data Center Arnhem Acq by Data place
Apr-17 365 Data Centers Acq by CHIRISA
Mar-17
NetSource Communications Acq by
Venture Technologies
Feb-17 GlobalConnect Acq by EQT Ventures
Jan-17 PDI Acq by Dunes Point Capital
Jan-17
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Acq
by Macom
Dec-16 Admo Acq by Contegix
Dec-16
Telecom Luxembourg Private Operator
Acq by LuxNetwork
Sep-16 Data place Acq by EUROFIBER GROUP
Sep-16 No Limits Software Acq by Tuangru
Sep-16 Node4 Acq by Bowmark Capital
Aug-16 CABLExpress Acq by H.I.G. Capital
Data Center Infrastructure > Exit Outlook > Acqui-hires

Date Target
Apr-13 BIS Acq by Six Degrees Group
Apr-13
VirtualSharp Software Acq by PHD
Virtual
Mar-13 iTRACS Acq by CommScope
Dec-12 Litecast Acq by Zayo Group
Oct-12 3X Systems Acq by Trustyd
Aug-12 Unite Technologies Acq by Panduit
Aug-12 Tenue Acq by TelecityGroup
Apr-12 Wyse Technology Acq by Dell
Jan-12 MarquisNet Acq by Zayo Group
Dec-11
Viridity Software Acq by Schneider
Electric
Sep-11 UK Grid Acq by TelecityGroup
May-11 Validus DC Acq by ABB
Jan-11
APW-President Systems Acq by
Schneider Electric
Dec-10 UnitedLayer Acq by Accelon Capital
Acqui-hires (2/2)
76
List of Acqui-hires in Data Center Infrastructure
Excludes all details for Chinese companies
Date Target
Nov-15 Colt Acq by Getronics
Nov-15 Acropolis Acq by Foliateam
Oct-15 Net Access Acq by Cologix
Oct-15
Eaton-Williams Acq by Nortek Global
HVAC
Oct-15 AdInfa Acq by TSL Products
Sep-15 ADI Engineering Acq by Silicom
Sep-15
Layer42 Networks Acq by Wave
Broadband
Jun-15 e-Shelter Acq by NTT communications
Jun-15 Raritan Acq by Legrand
Jun-15 Convirture Acq by Accelerite
Jun-15
RackCentral Acq by Vibe
Communications
Apr-15 Neverfail Acq by Artisan Infrastructure
Jan-15 SAFEDATA Acq by Rostelecom
Dec-14 DataGardens Acq by CenturyLink
Date Target
Oct-14 Xand Acq by TierPoint
Oct-14 VCE Acq by Dell Inc
May-14 Geo Networks Acq by Zayo Group
May-14 Layer One Acq by green_ch
Apr-14
Aceco TI Acq by Kohlberg Kravis
Roberts
Mar-14 CoreXchange Acq by Zayo Group
Jan-14 AST Modular Acq by Schneider Electric
Jan-14 O2 Czech Republic Acq by PPF Group
Nov-13 3DC.net Acq by TelecityGroup
Jun-13 CentriLogic Acq by CentriLogic
May-13 Core NAP Acq by Zayo Group
May-13 Data Centers Canada Acq by TeraGo
May-13 IP-Only Acq by EQT Ventures
May-13 SadeceHosting Acq by TelecityGroup
Data Center Infrastructure > Exit Outlook > Acqui-hires
View all 99 Acqui-hired companies on Tracxn Platform

Contents
Feed Summary
Investment Trend
Market Details
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
77
Details on VC & PE Investors
Seed Stage
Early Stage
Late Stage
Details on Top Ecosystem Players

Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Index of Most Active VC & PE Investors
Index of Top Investors (VC, PE) by Stage in Data Center Infrastructure; Last 5 years (Jul 2013 - Jun 2018)
Index of Most Active VC & PE Investors
SEED STAGE
Crosslink Capital
Formation 8
Initialized Capital
Menlo Ventures
New Enterprise Associates
ABR Capital Management
BLH Venture Partners
Alpine Meridian
Elm Street Ventures
Burch Creative Capital
Montage Ventures
Demeter
Phitrust Impact Investors
360 Capital Partners
Elaia Partners
EARLY STAGE
Intel Capital (5 Investments)
KPCB (2 Investments)
Battery Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Index Ventures
Sutter Hill Ventures
Mayfield
Walden Riverwood Ventures
Crosslink Capital
GE Ventures
Nexus Venture Partners
InfraVia
Tiger Infrastructure Partners
Carrick Capital Partners
LATE STAGE
Infratil
DFJ
Meritech Capital Partners
S3 Ventures
Greenspring Associates
Sapphire Ventures
General Catalyst Partners
Novator Partners
Cartesian Capital Group
Eight Roads Ventures
Argonaut Private Equity
Delta Venture Lab
Cisco Investments
GV

Crosslink Capital
80
Portfolio in Data Center Infrastructure | Exits | Funds Link | Website | LinkedIn | Twitter
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Crosslink Capital
People
Investments
[Unicorn] Casper (2014, New York City, $240M, Series C)
Online direct-to-consumer mattress brand
[Unicorn] Coupa (2006, San Mateo, $169M, Public)
Cloud spend management software
[Soonicorn] Prosper (2005, San Francisco, $410M, Series G)
P2P Lending Marketplace
[Soonicorn] Postmates (2011, San Francisco, $280M, Series E)
On Demand Delivery through Mobile App
[Soonicorn] SoloPower (2005, San Jose, $228M, Series E)
Manufactures thin-film photovoltaic cells
[Soonicorn] Personal Capital (2009, Redwood City, $217M,
Series E)
Technology-augmented human advice platform
[Soonicorn] DataStax (2010, Santa Clara, $190M, Series E)
Database Platform built on Apache Cassandra
[Soonicorn] Hired (2012, San Francisco, $133M, Series C)
Marketplace for pre-assessed candidates
[Soonicorn] Ayla Networks (2010, Sunnyvale, $124M, Series D)
A platform for hosting connected devices
[Soonicorn] RichRelevance (2006, San Francisco, $80.6M, Series
F)
Omnichannel Personalisation for Ecommerce
[Soonicorn] ProtectWise (2013, Denver, $73.4M, Series B)
Deep packet inspection & automated retrospection based threat
detection
[Minicorn] Nav (2012, San Mateo, $103M, Series C)
Business credit monitoring and financing
Other Notable Portfolio
Top Exits
Recent News on Fund & Portfolio
Sy Kaufman
Founder
Michael Stark
Founder & Partner
Geographical Spread Stage of Entry
Dec 2017
Kingsoft Cloud selects Equinix IBX data center in
Singapore , Telecompaper
Dec 2017
Equinix ECX to interconnect global data centres , Tahawul
Tech
Dec 2017
Equinix : expands IX offering and unveils SDN-based
inter-metro connectivity service, 4-Traders
Oct 2017
Equinix to launch Oracle infrastructure in 16 new
markets, Capacity Media
Sep 2017
Equinix Opens New Data Center in Silicon Valley, Silicon
Valley Daily
Sep 2017
Equinix Announces Pricing of €1.0 billion Senior Notes
Offering, PR Newswire
Sep 2017
Equinix Singapore to host SK Infosec's managed security
services, DataCenterNews
Sep 2017
Equinix Announces Proposed Public Offering of €750
Million of Senior Notes, PR Newswire
Aug 2017
Bloom Energy fuel cells to power 12 Equinix data centres
in the US, Renewable Energy Focus
Aug 2017 Equinix, Inc. 2017 Q2 - Results, Seeking Alpha
Equinix
Acq by 365 Data Centers - Sep
2012
SynapSense
(2006, Folsom, $44.5M)
Acq by Panduit - May 2014
1 1 1
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Follow On New Investments
1
1
1
-
1
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed5
-
-
-
-
US

Formation 8
81
Portfolio in Data Center Infrastructure | Exits | Funds Link | Website | LinkedIn | Twitter
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Formation 8
People
Investments
[Unicorn] Oscar (2012, New York City, $893M, Series B)
Internet-first health insurance provider
[Unicorn] Wish Shopping (2011, San Francisco, $579M, Series F)
Mobile Social Shopping App
[Unicorn] Guardant Health (2012, Redwood City, $550M, Series
E)
Cancer detection, care and treatment through Digital Sequencing
Technology
[Unicorn] Illumio (2013, Sunnyvale, $267M, Series D)
Adaptive security platform based data center security for workloads
[Unicorn] Yellomobile (2012, Seoul, $263M, Series C)
Mobile service, platform and digital marketing company
[Soonicorn] Hyperloop One (2014, Los Angeles, $414M, Series
C)
Hyperloop research
[Soonicorn] CollectiveHealth (2013, San Mateo, $230M, Series
D)
Self-insurance SaaS platform for employers to sponsor their employees
[Soonicorn] Addepar (2009, Mountain View, $206M, Series D)
Portfolio tracker for investors and advisors.
[Soonicorn] Memebox (2012, San Francisco, $160M, Series C)
Discover and shop Korean cosmetics
[Soonicorn] Vicarious (2010, San Francisco, $138M, Series D)
Developing artificial intelligence for robots
[Soonicorn] Thalmic Labs (2012, Kitchener, $136M, Series B)
Developing wearable technology for interaction with computers.
[Soonicorn] Radius (2009, San Francisco, $133M, Series D)
Predictive Marketing and Sales platform
Other Notable Portfolio
Top Exits
Recent News on Fund & Portfolio
Gideon Yu
Partner & Co-Founder
Brian Bonwoong
Koo
Co-Founder &
Managing Partner
Geographical Spread Stage of Entry
May 2016
Ericsson acquires data center automation service
NodePrime, TechCrunch
Sep 2015
NodePrime Raises $7M In Seed Funding To Help
Companies Manage Their Data Centers, TechCrunch
None
1
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Follow On New Investments
-
-
-
-
1
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed1
-
-
-
-
US

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