Tracxn - Data Center Infrastructure Sector Landscape Report

APRIL 2019
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 April 9, 2019.
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
$12.2B
Funding
113
Mega
Companies
3541026
FundedCovered on
Tracxn
19
Unicorns
28
Soonicorns
14
Minicorns
58
IPO’d Cos
183
Late Stage Cos
81
228
Acquisitions
33
DeadPooled
-
Acquihired
Series A+ Cos
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise
(1939, Palo Alto)
IBM
(1911, Armonk)
Top Companies
Dell
(1984, Round Rock)

Investment Trend Summary
Summary of Funding Activity in Data Center Infrastructure
5
$2.8B - PE
Global Switch (1998, London, $2.8B)
$67.2M - Series G
Pivot3 (2003, Austin, $230M)
$180M - Series D
Vantage Data Center Services (2010, South
Jordan, $180M)
$38.1M - Series C
Liqid (2013, Broomfield, $61.3M)
$94M - Series E
Cloudian (2011, Foster City, $176M)
$36.1M - PE
CDC (2007, Canberra, $321M)
$90M - Series B
Pi DATACENTERS (2014, Hyderabad, $118M)
$34M - Series B
Device42 (2010, New Haven, $38.5M)
$90M - Series B
ROOT Data Center (2013, Montreal, $115M)
$26M - Series C
Nautilus Data Technologies (2013,
Pleasanton, $48M)
Top Geos of InvestmentEntrepreneurial Activity Global Funding Trend
*YTD *YTD
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Investment Trend Summary
Seed
Demeter (#2), Phitrust Impact Investors (#2), BLH Venture
Partners (#1)
Series A/B Intel Capital (#2), Battery Ventures (#2), Mayfield (#1)
Series C+ Eight Roads Ventures (#1), INCJ (#1), S3 Ventures (#1)
Incubators NTT Docomo Ventures (#1), Gener8tor (#1)
Other Notable
Investors
Goldman Sachs (#4), TD Securities (#4), Deutsche Bank (#4)
Debt Investors
Western Technology Investment (#5), Connecticut Innovations
(#3), Providence Equity Partners (#3)
Most Active InvestorsRecent Investments
54
46
21
13
6
1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019*
Y-o-Y # of Companies Founded 46 36 31 29 29 6
$6.5B
$3.8B
$634M
$309M
$303M
US
Europe
Australia
Canada
India
$ Funding
$255M
$413M $556M $696M $681M
$3.1B
$764M
18
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019*
$ Funding # Rounds

Summary of exit outlook in Data Center Infrastructure
Exit Outlook Summary
66
Most Active AcquirersTop Investors in Exits
Battery Ventures 5
Zayo Group (2007, Boulder, $825M)
Nutanix (2009, San Jose, $340M)
Oak Investment
Partners
4
Exodus Communications (1994, Sunnyvale)
Western Technology
Investment
4
Equinix (1998, Redwood City, $175M)
Fusepoint Managed Services (1999,
Mississauga, $39M)
Bregal Sagemount 3
ViaWest (1999, Greenwood Village, $34M)
iWeb (1996, Montreal, $4.3M)
Accel Partners 2
SimpliVity (2009, Westborough, $276M)
Topspin Communications (2000, San
Francisco, $67M)
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
Feb 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
Zayo Group 8
Latisys (Jan 2015, $675M), Geo Networks (May 2014, $294M),
Litecast (Dec 2012, $22M)
Equinix 6
TelecityGroup (Jan 2016, $3.8B), TelecityGroup (May 2015,
$3.8B), Metronode (Dec 2017, $793M)
TelecityGroup 6
Interxion (Feb 2015, $2.2B), Globix (Aug 2006, $62M),
SadeceHosting (May 2013, $38.9M)
GI Partners 4
Flexential (Jun 2014), Peak 10 (Jun 2014), ICT-Center (Jan
2018)
NTT
communications
4
RagingWire (Feb 2014, $350M), e-Shelter (Jun 2015), Gyron
Internet (Jun 2012)
Recent IPOs Top Acquisitions
Over the Wire Mar 2015
Data center and telecommunication service…
IPO MCap: $33.1M
Zayo Group Oct 2014
Colocation and communication infrastructu…
IPO MCap: $4.5B
Asetek Aug 2014
Energy efficient cooling systems
IPO MCap: -
Atlas Cloud Jul 2014
Tier 2 data center and cloud services pro…
IPO MCap: $977k
2CRSI Jun 2018
Manufacturer of products for storage, dat…
IPO MCap: $137M
Switch Oct 2017
business telecom and data center solution…
IPO MCap: $4.2B
Nutanix Sep 2016
Converged Compute and storage infrastruct…
IPO MCap: $2.2B
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Oct 2015
Enterprise Products and Services
IPO MCap: -

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FACTSHEET
Funding data excludes Debt, Grants & Post-IPO rounds.
Excludes all details for Chinese companies.
Feed Report - Data Center Infrastructure - Apr 2019
Marketmap: Data Center Infrastructure
Overview
Companies 1026
Funded 354 Series A+ 183
Funding $12.2B Last 2 yrs $3.6B
Most Active Investors
Seed Demeter (2)
Series A/B Intel Capital (2)
Series C+ Eight Roads Ventures (1)
Others Goldman Sachs (4)
Incubators NTT Docomo Ventures (1)
Top Cities
London 33 Cos $2.9B
Bay Area 77 Cos $1.6B
Feed in Numbers
Unicorns 19 Soonicorns 28
Minicorns 14 Editor Picks 79
Acquihired - Deadpooled 33
Top Companies
IBM (1911, Armonk)
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise
(1939, Palo Alto)
Dell (1984, Round Rock,)
Exits
IPOs 58 Zayo Group, Switch
Acquisitions 228 Dell, DuPont Fabros
Technology
Top Acquirers Zayo Group, Equinix
FIBER OPTIC CONNECTIVITY
DATA CENTER PROVIDERS
COLOCATION
MODULAR*
SDDC*
MANAGEMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
DISASTER RECOVERY
AUTOMATION & ANALYTICS
ENERGY & POWER
PERFORMANCE MONITORING
EQUIPMENT
CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
SERVERS
PERIPHERALS
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > BlueBox
7

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 564 $3B 22
Data Center Providers > Colocation >
Green Data Centers 33 $221M 5
DC with Bare Metal Servers 15 $80.6M 5
Modular Data centers 40 $54M 6
Equipment >
Converged Infrastructure 31 $182M 3
DC Infrastructure Management >
Energy & Power Management 69 $62.6M 4
Sub Sectors
# Cos
Tracked
#
Funded
Total
Funding
Data Center Providers
Companies that provide facilities that house servers
652 176 $7.9B
Equipment
Companies that design and manufacture accessories
and equipment for data centers
113 55 $1.6B
Connectivity
Companies that offer products that provide
connectivity in a data center
89 25 $1.3B
DC Infrastructure Management
Companies that develop tools that manage energy
consumption, environment, power, capacity...
130 74 $1.1B
Disaster Recovery
Companies that offer disaster recovery solutions
19 16 $221M
SDDC
Companies that offer virtualized storage, network and
compute with software defined policies
5 5 $76.4M
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 (1/3)
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)
Equinix
(1998, Redwood City, $175M)
CoreSite
(2001, Denver, $420M)
QTS
(2005, Overland Park, $25M)
Silicon Graphics
International Corp
(1999, Milpitas, $21M)
Super Micro
(1993, San Jose)
Applied Micro Circuits
Corporation
(1979, Sunnyvale)
Public
2CRSI
(2005, Strasbourg)
Qualstar
(1984, Simi Valley)
NEXTDC
(2010, Brisbane)
Over the Wire
(2012, Spring Hill)
Macquarie Telecom
(1992, Sydney)
Hydro66
(2014, Boden, $579k)
Acropolis
(2001, Paris, $3.2M)
Asetek
(2000, Aalborg, $34M)
RiT Technologies
(1989, Tel Aviv, $24.4M)
CenturyLink
(1930, Monroe, $20M)
Public
Rackwise
(2007, Folsom, $5.1M)
IBM
(1911, Armonk)
Eaton
(1911, Cleveland)
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise
(1939, Palo Alto)
ADVA Optical
Networking
(1994, Martinsried)
Schneider Electric
(1836, Rueil-malmaison)
Beta Systems
(1983, Berlin)
EasyCall
Communications
(1989, Manila)
KDDI
(1984, Tokyo)
Public
Promise Technology
(1988, Hsinchu)
Acer
(1987, Taipei)
Afranet
(1997, Tehran)
APW-President Systems
(1983, Bangalore)
Black Box
(1976, Washington Boro)
Colt
(1992, London)
Etasis Electronics
Corporation
(1996, Taipei)
Hexatronic
(1993, Gothenburg)
Ibercom
(1996, San Sebastian)
Keppel Telecom
(1965, Singapore)
Public
O2 Czech Republic
(2006, Prague)
ONE STOP SYSTEMS
(1998, Escondido)
Uniserve
(1988, Vancouver)
Vocus Communications
(1996, Sydney)

10
Acquired
Dell
(1984, Round Rock)
APC
(1981, West Kingston)
DuPont Fabros
Technology
(1997, Washington D.C.)
TelecityGroup
(1998, Istanbul)
TelecityGroup
(1997, London)
Savvis
(1992, Sarasota, $30M)
Savvis
(1995, St. Louis)
Interoute
(2003, London)
Interxion
(1998, Amsterdam, $568M)
Telx
(2000, New York City, $43.5M)
Acquired
Ascenty
(2009, Sao Paulo)
ViaWest
(1999, Greenwood Village,
$34M)
Opsware
(1999, Sunnyvale, $141M)
Terremark
(1982, Miami)
IP-Only
(1999, Uppsala)
IO.com
(2007, Phoenix, $311M)
Vantage Data Center
Services
(2010, South Jordan, $180M)
BladeLogic
(2001, Houston, $32M)
Metronode
(2002, Sydney)
Acquired
Exodus
Communications
(1994, Santa Clara)
Sonic
(1994, Santa Rosa)
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)
Cogeco Peer
(1999, Toronto)
Nextgen Group
(2003, Melbourne)
Acquired
Eltek
(1971, Drammen)
CyrusOne
(2000, Carrollton)
Sentinel Data Centers
(2001, New York City, $300M)
Zenium Technology
Partners Limited
(2012, London)
Neotel
(2005, Midrand)
Basefarm
(2000, Oslo)
Cervalis
(2000, Shelton)
Stratus Technologies
(1980, Maynard)
RagingWire
(2000, Sacramento)
Manx Telecom
(1986, Douglas)
Acquired
Bluebird Network
(1999, Columbia)
Geo Networks
(2003, London)
Bit-isle
(2000, Tokyo)
Smarts
(1993, White Plains)
Topspin
Communications
(2000, San Francisco, $67M)
Evoswitch
(2007, Haarlem)
Alog Data Centers
(2005, Rio De Janeiro)
Kingsland Data Center
(1974, Singapore)
PlateSpin
(2003, Toronto)
4Degrees Colocation
(2013, Montreal)

11
Acquired
BLACKIRON Data
(2012, Etobicoke)
Metrotel
(2001, Buenos Aires)
Pivot Data Centres
(1989, Calgary)
Asia Pacific Data Centre
(2013, Deal)
Kashya
(2000, San Jose)
iWeb
(1996, Montreal, $4.3M)
Next Generation Data
(2007, London)
MAG Datacenters
(2000, Denver)
LanTro
(1999, Ayer Raja New Town)
Fusepoint Managed
Services
(1999, Mississauga, $39M)
Acquired
Jaguar Network
(2001, Marseille)
Pulsant
(1998, Reading)
JouleX
(2009, Atlanta, $19M)
Dataplex
(2008, Dublin)
Unicorns
Global Switch
(1998, London, $2.8B)
Digital Realty
(2004, San Francisco)
Flexential
(2000, Charlotte)
Vertiv Co
(2016, Columbus)
Deadpooled
Smooth-Stone(2008,
Austin, $48M)
Atlas Cloud (2013,
Vancouver)
Exodus
Communications(1994,
Sunnyvale)
Tulip Telecom (1992,
Delhi)

List of Notable Companies by Market in Data Center Infrastructure
Notable Companies by Market (1/14)
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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
LogicMonitor (2008, Santa Barbara, $152M)
Cloud-Based Performance Monitoring
Soonicorn. Stage: Acquired
Providence Equity Partners
RiT Technologies (1989, Tel Aviv, $24.4M)
IT infrastructure and data center management and
connectivity solutions
Stage: Public
Energy & Power Management
Smooth-Stone (2008, Austin, $48M)
Solutions to minimize energy usage in data centers
Stage: Deadpooled
Battery Ventures, Highland Capital Partners,
Flybridge Capital Partners and 2 Other Investors
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
Cloud&Heat (2011, Dresden, $16.7M)
Energy and cost efficient data center
Soonicorn. Stage: Series B
ETF Partners, Inven Capital, VNG Group and 1 Other
Investors

14
Vertiv Co (2016, Columbus)
Provider of thermal and power management
service for data centres
Unicorn. Stage: Series A
Susquehanna Growth Equity
Capacity & Asset
Rackwise (2007, Folsom, $5.1M)
DCIM software suite
Stage: Public
Black Diamond
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 6 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
Schneider Electric (1836, Rueil-malmaison)
Connected technologies and solutions to manage
energy
Stage: Public
Phitrust Partenaires
Beta Systems (1983, Berlin)
Provider of IAM and data center intelligence and
automation solution
Stage: Public

15
Stratus Technologies (1980, Maynard)
Cloud workload management services
Stage: Acquired
Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners
Colocation
Tier III Data centers and colocation services
Unicorn. Stage: Funded
International Data Corporation, Barclays, Credit
Suisse and 11 Other Investors
Colocation and communication infrastructure
services company
Unicorn. Stage: Public
Starboard Value, GTCR, Charlesbank Capital
Partners and 18 Other Investors
Interxion (1998, Amsterdam, $568M)
Data center and colocation services
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, ABN AMRO Bank,
Barclays and 13 Other Investors
Colocation
CoreSite (2001, Denver, $420M)
Data center and co-location services
Stage: Public
KeyBank, RBC Capital Markets, Regions Bank and 2
Other Investors
Provider of green data center colocation services
Soonicorn. Stage: Funded
Infratil, Quadrant Private Equity
IO.com (2007, Phoenix, $311M)
Offers DataCenter and colocation services
Stage: Acquired
Macquarie Group, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo and
3 Other Investors
AirTrunk (2015, Sydney, $307M)
Hyper-scale data centers for colocation services
Soonicorn. Stage: Series C
Goldman Sachs, TPG, Deutsche Bank and 3 Other
Investors

16
Colocation
Sentinel Data Centers (2001, New York City,
$300M)
Offers data centers services
Kelso & Company, SDC Capital Partners
Jordan, $180M)
Data Center Developer
RBC Capital Markets, SunTrust Robinson
Humphrey, Regions Bank and 7 Other Investors
Equity REIT investing in data centers
Crosslink Capital, Putnam, Cisco and 12 Other
Investors
Colocation
Cloud hosting & Data Center solutions.
Epsilon Venture Partners, ArKrit, Praveen Vegulla
and 35 Other Investors
CtrlS (2007, Hyderabad, $103M)
Tier 4 data center and managed services provider
Indian Overseas Bank, Oriental Bank Of Commerce,
Andhra Bank and 9 Other Investors
Q9 Networks (1995, Toronto, $74.4M)
Colocation and data center services for Canada
Stage: Acquired
BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets,
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, MC Partners
Managed Services and Colocation
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, Solar Capital, Quilvest Private
Equity and 4 Other Investors
Savvis (1992, Sarasota, $30M)
Internet infrastructure services
Stage: Acquired
Pamlico Capital, RH Capital Partners, Gateway
QTS (2005, Overland Park, $25M)
Data Center Infrastructure
Soonicorn. Stage: Public
Bank of America, KeyBank, Deutsche Bank and 1
Other Investors

17
Colocation
CenturyLink (1930, Monroe, $20M)
Technology solutions and services provider
Welsh Carson Anderson Stowe, Temasek,
Advantage Capital and 2 Other Investors
Cloud hosting, Server hosting and virtualization
Stage: Acquired
Goldman Sachs, Bank of Montreal, National Bank
Financial Wealth Management and 6 Other
Investors
Acropolis (2001, Paris, $3.2M)
Telecom and data center services
Stage: Acquired
BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Isatis Capital
Hydro66 (2014, Boden, $579k)
Colocation hosting services
Stage: Public
Black Green Capital
Colocation
Digital Realty (2004, San Francisco)
Colocation and data center solutions
Castle Island Partners
Flexential (2000, Charlotte)
Data center and hybrid cloud services provider
Fisher Lynch Capital
Interoute (2003, London)
Europe's Largest Telecom Network
Aleph Capital Partners, Crestview Partners, GTT
Communications and 1 Other Investors
CyrusOne (2000, Carrollton)
Offers enterprise data center colocation services
BMO Harris Bank, Credit Agricole CIB, Ing Capital
Markets and 2 Other Investors
Colocation
DigiPlex (2001, Oslo)
Data center and cloud services
Soonicorn. Stage: Unfunded
FirstLight (1999, Albany)
Internet, data center and voice services
Novacap, Riverside Partners, ATN and 1 Other
Investors
Ascenty (2009, Sao Paulo)
Data Center services
ING, Itau BBA, Blackstone and 2 Other Investors
Asia Pacific Data Centre (2013, Deal)
Offers Real estate assets for IT companies.
Compass (1995, Auckland)
Fixed line and wireless telecom services provider

18
Colocation
NEXTDC (2010, Brisbane)
Data center operator in Australia
National Australia Bank
OnRamp (1994, Austin)
Co-location, managed hosting, and disaster
recovery.
Balance Point Capital, Burch Creative Capital,
Seneca Creek Partners and 6 Other Investors
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (2019, Atlanta)
Provider of colocation service
Manx Telecom (1986, Douglas)
telecommunications services and data center
service provider
Minicorn. Stage: Acquired
Herald Investment Management
Colocation
Basefarm (2000, Oslo)
Colocation provider
Editor's Pick. Stage: Acquired
IP-Only (1999, Uppsala)
Nordic Fiber Internet and Data Center Providers
Acacia
Terremark (1982, Miami)
IT and Data Centers solutions
Silver Lake, VMware, Credit Suisse and 1 Other
Investors
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
Colocation
Savvis (1995, St. Louis)
Managed cloud hosting and data center colocation
solution
Stage: Acquired
EasyCall Communications (1989, Manila)
Business Internet connectivity provider
Stage: Public
KDDI (1984, Tokyo)
Telecom and data center service provider
Stage: Public
DuPont Fabros Technology (1997,
Washington D.C.)
Outsourced data center management services
4Degrees Colocation (2013, Montreal)
Data center services
Stage: Acquired
Afranet (1997, Tehran)
Datacenter and internet service provider
Stage: Public

19
Colocation
Alog Data Centers (2005, Rio De Janeiro)
Tier III data centers in Brazil.
Stage: Acquired
Riverwood Capital
Atlas Cloud (2013, Vancouver)
Tier 2 data center and cloud services provider
Stage: Deadpooled
Rockshield Capital
Bit-isle (2000, Tokyo)
Data center provider in Japan
Stage: Acquired
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
Colocation
Cogeco Peer (1999, Toronto)
Colocation and cloud and managed services
Stage: Acquired
Dataplex (2008, Dublin)
Colocation data center services
Stage: Acquired
Evoswitch (2007, Haarlem)
Offers carrier-neutral data center services.
Stage: Acquired
Colocation, Internet hosting and internet service
provider
Stage: Deadpooled
On-Line Ventures, Western Technology Investment,
Oak Investment Partners
Colocation
Exodus Communications (1994, Santa Clara)
Colocation, managed hosting, enterprise cloud & IT
solutions
Stage: Acquired
Apex Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners,
Gabriel Venture Partners and 5 Other Investors
Geo Networks (2003, London)
Dedicated fibre network service provider
Stage: Acquired
Ibercom (1996, San Sebastian)
Telecommunications service to residential and
business customers, and operators
Stage: Public
Inveready
Keppel Telecom (1965, Singapore)
Telecommunication, logistics and data center
services
Stage: Public

20
Colocation
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
Metronode (2002, Sydney)
Colocation and data center facilities in Australia
Stage: Acquired
O2 Czech Republic (2006, Prague)
Telecom operator and data centers provider in
Czech Republic
Stage: Acquired
Peer 1 Hosting (1999, Toronto)
Colocation and cloud hosting provider
Stage: Acquired
Clairvest, Celerity Partners, Maxam Capital
Colocation
Pivot Data Centres (1989, Calgary)
Colocation provider in Canada
Stage: Acquired
Sverica Capital Management
Pulsant (1998, Reading)
Data centres, cloud hosting services & managed
networks
Stage: Acquired
RagingWire (2000, Sacramento)
Offers data center colocation
Stage: Acquired
Bank of America, Comerica
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, GE Corporate Lending, Spring
Lake Equity Partners and 2 Other Investors
TelecityGroup (1998, Istanbul)
Colocation Data Centre Istanbul
Stage: Acquired
Oak Hill Capital Partners, 3i Group
TelecityGroup (1997, London)
Data Center Provider
Stage: Acquired
Barclays, HSBC Group, Lloyds Bank and 1 Other
Investors
Tulip Telecom (1992, Delhi)
Enterprise communications and data center service
provider
Stage: Deadpooled

21
Colocation
Uniserve (1988, Vancouver)
High Speed Internet, Digital Phone and Web
Hosting Services
Stage: Public
Crown Capital Partners
Vocus Communications (1996, Sydney)
Offers data center and telecommunication services
Stage: Public
Zenium Technology Partners Limited
(2012, London)
Data center in Europe
Stage: Acquired
Modular Data centers
Vapor (2015, Austin)
Provides design solutions for datacenters and
mobile networks
Berkshire Partners, Crown Castle, AVX Partners
DC with Bare Metal Servers
Kingsland Data Center (1974, Singapore)
Provider of Data centre services
Stage: Acquired
Next Generation Data (2007, London)
Data center solutions
Stage: Acquired
Finance Wales

22
Equipment
Servers
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
Dell (1984, Round Rock)
Enterprise solutions and consumer elecctronics
company
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Merrill
Lynch, Barclays and 5 Other Investors
Servers
IBM (1911, Armonk)
Computer technology and consulting corporation
Payden, VIMAC Ventures, Berkshire Hathaway and
6 Other Investors
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (1939, Palo
Alto)
2CRSI (2005, Strasbourg)
Manufacturer of products for storage, data
processing or computation needs
Stage: Public
Acer (1987, Taipei)
Multinational electronics manufacturer
Stage: Public
WK Technology Fund, H&Q Asia Pacific, Advent
Peripherals
Eaton (1911, Cleveland)
Power management company
Department of Energy, Brown Gibbons Lang
Super Micro (1993, San Jose)
Designs and manufactures servers
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Enspire Capital,
West Avenue Capital
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (1979,
Sunnyvale)
Cloud computing and connectivity products for
data centers
Stage: Acquired
Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, VentureTech
Alliance
Promise Technology (1988, Hsinchu)
Storage solutions custom made for data centers
Stage: Public

23
Equipment
Peripherals
APC (1981, West Kingston)
Data center peripherals
Stage: Acquired
MUFG Union Bank, Abenex, Equistone Partners
Europe
APW-President Systems (1983, Bangalore)
Designs and manufactures standard and customized
racks
Stage: Acquired
Black Box (1976, Washington Boro)
Offers data center accessories and IT services.
Stage: Acquired
Eltek (1971, Drammen)
Power System Solutions
Stage: Acquired
Altor Equity Partners, Sierra Ventures
Peripherals
Etasis Electronics Corporation (1996,
Taipei)
Power supply solutions to industries
Stage: Public
Birch Venture Capital
LanTro (1999, Ayer Raja New Town)
Cabling and Cabling Components
Stage: Acquired
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
Converged Infrastructure
Converged Compute and storage infrastructure
Goldman Sachs, Riverwood Capital, Morgan Stanley
Optimized IT Infrastructure Platform
Charles River Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners,
Accel Partners and 8 Other Investors
All flash hyper converged appliance
Soonicorn. Stage: Series G
S3 Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mesirow Financial

24
Equipment
Cloud Object Storage and Converged Infrastructure
provider
Soonicorn. Stage: Series E
Digital, INCJ, NTT Docomo Ventures and 9 Other
Investors
Scale Computing (2006, Indianapolis, $90.2M)
Hyperconverged infrastructure systems
Soonicorn. Stage: Series F
Allos Ventures, Lenovo, ABS Capital and 12 Other
Investors
Skyport Systems (2013, Mountain View, $67M)
Computing infrastructure for enterprise
applications
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 13 Other
Investors
Everstream (2014, Cleveland, $65M)
Wholesale fiber connectivity services provider
MC Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley
FiberZone Networks (2003, Bethesda,
$42.8M)
Fiber Infrastructure Management and testing
Automation
S-Group Capital Management, Novak Biddle
Venture Partners, Portview Communications
AKADO (1992, Moscow)
Business communication, TV, and data center
services provider
Clouditalia (2012, Arezzo)
Business communication and cloud computing
services provider
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

25
Connectivity
Jaguar Network (2001, Marseille)
Hosting, business communication and data center
solutions provider
Stage: Acquired
Naxicap Partners
Neotel (2005, Midrand)
Wholesale fiber network connectivity services
provider
Stage: Acquired
Nedbank, Investec, DBSA and 2 Other Investors
Bluebird Network (1999, Columbia)
Fiber optic network and data services provider
Stage: Acquired
Colt (1992, London)
Data center connectivity and voice services
Stage: Acquired
Eight Roads Ventures
Hexatronic (1993, Gothenburg)
Fiber-optic cable accessories and passive
equipment provider
Stage: Public
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
TA Associates Management, Karmel Capital
Wilcon (1998, Los Angeles)
Offers fiber & data center infrastructure solutions.
Stage: Acquired
Pamlico Capital

26
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
27
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Notable Companies in the Sector in China
Public
Global Data Solutions
(2000, Chaoyang, $20M)
21vianet
(1999, Beijing, $62.4M)
Inspur
(2004, Jinan)
Dr Peng Telecom &
Media Group
(1985, Beijing)
Acquired
Watone Cloud Data
(2012, Hangzhou)

Recent News in Data Center Infrastructure Sector
Recent News
28
Data Center Infrastructure > Feed Summary > Recent News
Apr 2019
CenturyLink Wins First EIS Task Order to Provide Fast, Secure
Connectivity to NASA, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
Phil Mottram escapes Zayo to join Tarek Robbiati at HPE, Capacity
Media
Apr 2019
IBM Abandons Marketing Technology, Sells Out To Private Equity,
Which-50
Apr 2019
Indian IT services firms are strengthening consulting practice:
Experts, Business Standard
Apr 2019
Aços Macom Industria y Comércio Ltda’s $5.7 Million Acquisition of
a Eaton Ltda property in São Paulo, Global Legal Chronicle
Apr 2019
Benjamin Schönfeld New Managing Director of Leaseweb
Singapore, Business Wire
Apr 2019 Eaton lands Gaza wastewater treatment plant contract, Trade Arabia
Apr 2019
Enjoy Always-On Internet Access with Tripp Lite’s PDU15NETLX
Mini PDU, PRWeb
Apr 2019
How Equinix enables multiplayer gaming across the internet,
VentureBeat
Apr 2019
Digital Realty completes sale of 49% stake in Brazil data centres to
Brookfield, Capacity Media
Apr 2019
IBM listed as Visionary Leader by 360Quadrants in AI in Fintech, PR
Newswire
Apr 2019
Zayo waits for next week’s bids that could value it at $9 billion,
Capacity Media
Key Recent News Key Recent News
Apr 2019
Unitrends Launches New Set of Backup/Recovery Appliances,
eWEEK
Apr 2019
Why CenturyLink kept its headquarters in Louisiana – BizWest,
BizWest
Apr 2019
Zayo Enables Packet to Deliver Infrastructure Solutions for a
Software-First Future, TELECOMDRIVE
Apr 2019
Brazil’s ODATA Selects CommScope for Multi-Tenant Data Center
Deployment, TELECOMDRIVE
Apr 2019 DigiPlex Shortlisted for DCS Awards 2019, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
Global Hosted Private Branch Exchange (PBX) Market Outlook,
2019-2023 with Avaya, CenturyLink, Cisco Systems, NEC
Corporation, and Siemens Dominating - ResearchAndMarkets.com,
Business Wire
Apr 2019 Telin Singapore secures OSPAR certification, Telecom Asia
Apr 2019 MacTel, CompNow, take regional VMware awards, crn.com.au
Apr 2019 Dell, Nutanix slug it out in global hyperconverged market, crn.com.au
Apr 2019
IBM's cloud data management system goes down again...and
again...and again!, crn.com.au
Apr 2019
Legrand closes acquisition of Universal Electric Corporation,
DatacenterDynamics
Apr 2019
Centerbridge Partners to Acquire IBM’s Marketing Platform and
Commerce Software Offerings to Form Standalone Marketing and
Advertising Technology Company, Business Wire

Contents
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Investment Trends
Market Details
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
29
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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Investments ($M) and number of rounds in Data Center Infrastructure; 2012-2019
Global Funding Trends (1/2)
31
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 7% # of Rounds24% $ Funding
5% # of Rounds
77% $ Funding
$255M
$841M
$321M
$413M
$556M
$696M $681M
$3.1B
$764M
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
$0k
$500M
$1.B
$1.5B
$2.B
$2.5B
$3.B
$3.5B
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019*
$ Funding Predicted $ Funding # Rounds Predicted # Rounds

4 8 10 11 5 6 6 1
25
18 22 13
16 14
12
4
11 11
14
12 10 9 11 1
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 YTD
Seed Early Stage Late Stage
40
6
Total # of Rounds
$7M $9M $8M $26M $4M $10M
$8M
$3M
$233M
$108M $99M $99M
$112M
$247M
$72M
$72M
$601M $204M $306M $431M $580M $424M $3B $180M
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 YTD
Seed Early Stage Late Stage
$841M
$255M
Total $ Invested
32
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 Club
Global Funding Trends (2/2)
Investments ($M) and number of rounds in Data Center Infrastructure; 2012-2019
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Global Funding Trends
22
16
12
9
13
12 84
$3M $7.9M
$0.0M
$5.0M
$10.0M
$15.0M
$20.0M
$25.0M
$30.0M
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 YTD Total
Entrants in Funding Club Avg. Ticket Size
$3M $3.7M $11.1M $7M $28.1M $2.6M - $7.9M
$235M
$688M
$181M $265M $423M
$615M $613M
$3B
$704M
9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
0
500000000
1E+09
1.5E+09
2E+09
2.5E+09
3E+09
3.5E+09
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 YTD
$ Funding Predicted $ Funding # of Rounds Predicted # Rounds
Mega Rounds
7 4 3 6 8 6 6 3

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 1.6B 97
Boulder 826M 5
Vancouver 617M 2
Amsterdam 568M 5
Goleta 402M 15
New York City 382M 8
Austin 365M 27
Canberra 321M 3
Phoenix 311M 5
Total Funding
158
79
6
20
13
11
2
6
# Rounds
$6.5B
$3.8B
$634M
$309M
$303M
$50.7M
$28M
$14M
US
Europe
Australia
Canada
India
Israel
South Africa
Latam
Note: Excludes funding information of China companies

Trend of Average Deal Size ($M)
$1.8
$1.1 $0.9
$2.3
$1.3 $1.6 $1.5
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Median Deal Size and Trend
Median and Average Deal Size in $M (per Stage) in Data Center Infrastructure; 2012-2018
Median Deal Size and Trend
Note: Excludes funding information of Chinese companies. *Graph not to scale
Median Deal Size and Range
$30K* $7M
$110K $32.5M
$2M $90M
$250K $2.8B
$22.1M
$13.3M
$3.8M
$1.4M
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed
Stage
$27.7
$10.3 $10.4 $13.7
$4.0
$61.0
$18.3
$75.1
$25.5 $34.0 $47.9 $72.5
$70.7
$425.6
$3.9 $4.6 $3.8
$6.2 $8.3
$12.8
$7.1

Note: 181 companies with undisclosed funding amount are not included
35
<$1M
$1-10M
$10-50M
$50-100M
$100M+
Funding Range
15
57
70
13
23
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 Apr 2019
Distribution of companies by Funding Range
$5M
$225M
$1.9B
$940M
$9.1B
$ Investment

Stage No. of Companies
Funding
Funnel
100%
35%
18%
11%
8%
36
Note: Numbers in the brackets show the count of companies
Time to raise
next round
81
117
183
354
1026
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Funded
Founded
Next
Round
100M+
Valuation
Exits
Acqui-
Hired
Dead
Pooled
Others
35% 13%
(130)
12%
(128)
- 3%
(29)
63%
(643)
52% 30%
(107)
31%
(108)
- 4%
(14)
44%
(157)
64% 27%
(50)
21%
(39)
- 4%
(8)
32%
(58)
69% 36%
(42)
25%
(29)
- 4%
(5)
26%
(31)
- 43%
(35)
28%
(23)
- 4%
(3)
30%
(24)
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Funding Funnel
Number of companies progressing to subsequent funding stages in Data Center Infrastructure
Funding Funnel
18 Months
20 Months
20 Months
Investment backedBootstrapped
28
19
146
53
82
5
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; Apr 2017-Apr 2019
Notable Investments in last 24 months (1/3)
LATE STAGE
$2.8B - PE Jul 2018
International Data Corporation
$180M - Series D Feb 2019
Jordan, $180M)
$94M - Series E Aug 2018
provider
Digital, INCJ, NTT Docomo Ventures, Eight Roads
Ventures, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
$67.2M - Series G Aug 2017
S3 Ventures
LATE STAGE
$38.1M - Series C Oct 2018
Data center resource management
Toscafund Asset Management, HQ Trust, DvH
Ventures
$36.1M - PE Dec 2018
Infratil
$26M - Series C Nov 2017
Pleasanton, $48M)
Modular data center in Water
Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Emerson
Collective, Keppel
$21.2M - Series F Oct 2018
Allos Ventures, Lenovo
LATE STAGE
$13.2M - Series G Aug 2017
$12M - Series C Oct 2018
Pleasanton, $48M)
$10M - Series C Sep 2017
Pleasanton, $48M)
Keppel Data Centres
$7.5M - Series C Dec 2018
PE May 2017
Blackstone, Great Hill Partners, SDC Capital Partners

LATE STAGE
PE Jun 2017
Novacap
Series C Sep 2018
mobile networks
Berkshire Partners, Crown Castle
EARLY STAGE
$90M - Series B Aug 2017
$90M - Series B Oct 2017
ROOT Data Center (2013, Montreal, $115M)
Offers co-location solutions
Goldman Sachs
$34M - Series B Mar 2019
Data center environment management software
$25M - Series B Sep 2018
Packet (2014, New York City, $40M)
Bare Metal Infrastructure for Container workloads
Third Point Ventures, Battery Ventures, JA Mitsui
Leasing, SoftBank Group, Dell Technologies,
Samsung NEXT
$20.7M - Series B Jan 2019
New Continuum (2009, West Chicago, $30.7M)
EARLY STAGE
$17M - Series B Mar 2019
Virtual Power Systems (2012, Santa Clara,
$35.8M)
Software defined data center for power delivery
CUI Global
$11.6M - Series B Sep 2018
ETF Partners, Inven Capital
$10M - Series A Apr 2017
Marker Hill Capital, Phison Electronics Corporation
Series A May 2017
Inven Capital, VNG Group

SEED STAGE
$3M - Seed Mar 2019
EdgeMicro (2017, Denver, $6M)
High bandwidth and low latency modular data
centers
$3M - Seed Apr 2018
centers

Most Active Investors (VC, PE) by Stage in Data Center Infrastructure; Last 5 years (Apr 2014-Apr 2019)
Most Active VC & PE Investors
40
Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Most Active VC & PE Investors
SEED STAGE
Demeter(2 Investments)
Stimergy, Stimergy
1
Phitrust Impact Investors (2 Investments)
Stimergy, Stimergy
2
New Enterprise Associates
NodePrime
3
Crosslink Capital
NodePrime
4
Menlo Ventures
NodePrime
5
BLH Venture Partners
StrataCloud
6
Formation 8
NodePrime
7
360 Capital Partners
Containous
8
Initialized Capital
NodePrime
9
Elaia
Containous
10
EARLY STAGE
Intel Capital(2 Investments)
Skyport Systems, rENIAC
1
Battery Ventures(2 Investments)
Fungible, Packet
2
Nexus Venture Partners
Arkin
3
Lightspeed Venture Partners
MosaixSoft
4
Kleiner Perkins
Pavilion Data
5
Mayfield
Fungible
6
Inven Capital
Cloud&Heat
7
ADVA Optical Networking
8
Crosslink Capital
365 Data Centers
9
Index Ventures
Skyport Systems
10
LATE STAGE
MC Partners
Everstream
1
Cloudian
2
Northgate Capital
Skyport Systems
3
INCJ
Cloudian
4
First Analysis
Scale Computing
5
S3 Ventures
Pivot3
6
Infratil
CDC
7
Icon Ventures
CloudPhysics
8
Cisco Investments
Skyport Systems
9
Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
Cloudian
10

Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Most Active Ecosystem Investors
Top Ecosystem Investors in Data Center Infrastructure; Last 5 years (Apr 2014-Apr 2019)
Most Active Ecosystem Investors
INCUBATOR/ACCELERATOR
NTT Docomo Ventures
Cloudian
1
Gener8tor
EDCS Power
2
OTHER NOTABLE INVESTORS
Goldman Sachs(4 Investments)
AirTrunk, Aligned Energy, ROOT Data Center
1
TD Securities(4 Investments)
365 Data Centers, Sabey Data Centers, CoreSite
2
Deutsche Bank(4 Investments)
AirTrunk, VIRTUS Data Centres, IO.com
3
RBC Capital Markets(3 Investments)
Vantage Data Center Services, CoreSite, Cologix
4
Barclays(3 Investments)
Vantage Data Center Services, Interxion, Global Switch
5
Bank of America(3 Investments)
QTS, Interxion, Cologix
6
JPMorgan Chase & Co.(3 Investments)
Everstream, Cologix, Dell
7
KeyBank(3 Investments)
QTS, Vantage Data Center Services, CoreSite
8
Bank of America Merrill Lynch(3
Investments)
Vantage Data Center Services, Super Micro, Interxion
9
Ing Capital Markets(3 Investments)
365 Data Centers, Vantage Data Center Services, CyrusOne
10
DEBT INVESTORS
Western Technology Investment(5
Investments)
Exodus Communications, Kashya, Platform Solutions
1
Connecticut Innovations(3 Investments)
Online Tech, Device42, CoolIT Systems
2
Providence Equity Partners(3
Investments)
Carrier-1, LogicMonitor, EdgeConneX
3
Harbert Management(2 Investments)
4NG, 4energy
4
NewSpring Capital(2 Investments)
Atlantic Metro
5
Silicon Valley Bank
MacStadium
6
TPG
AirTrunk
7
Advantage Capital
CenturyLink
8
Wellington Financial
Digital Fortress
9
Fortress Investment
365 Data Centers
10

Data Center Infrastructure > Investment Trends > Investors in Unicorn club
Investors in Unicorn Club (1/6)

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

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BlueBox
Key Sub Sectors
Detailed Sector Taxonomy
Top Markets of Early Stage Investors
Other Notable Markets
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FACTSHEET
Funding data excludes Debt, Grants & Post-IPO rounds.
Excludes all details for Chinese companies.
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Key Sub Sectors
52
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)
652 176 $7.9B
Equipment
Companies that design and manufacture accessories and equipment for data centers
Nutanix (2009, San Jose, Public)
113 55 $1.6B
Connectivity
Companies that offer products that provide connectivity in a data center
Integra Telecom (1996, Vancouver,
Acquired)
$42.8M)
89 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, $41M)
130 74 $1.1B
Disaster Recovery
Companies that offer disaster recovery solutions
Marathon Technologies (1993, Littleton,
Acquired)
Infrascale (2006, El Segundo, $33.6M)
19 16 $221M
SDDC
Companies that offer virtualized storage, network and compute with software defined policies
Scalent (2002, Palo Alto, Acquired)
Kaloom (2014, Montreal, $20.7M)
5 5 $76.4M
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
Qutrix Solution (2015, Bangalore)
STAC Research (2009, Warrenville)
2 0 -
Migration
Companies that offer data center migration and relocation services
PlateSpin (2003, Toronto, Acquired)
KG DataServe (2015, Bangkok)
7 1 -
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Key Sub Sectors

Detailed Sector Taxonomy (1/2)
53
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Detailed Sector Taxonomy

Detailed Sector Taxonomy (2/2)
54
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 564 | Funded 145 | Total Funding $6.9B)
$3B
(+$2.5B)
22
(+7)
Global Switch
(1998, London, $2.8B)
2
(+3)
Data Center Providers > Colocation > Green Data Centers
Companies that provide data center colocation services which are powered using renewable energy.
(Companies covered 33 | Funded 11 | Total Funding $802M)
$221M
(-$64.9M)
5
(+3)
Vantage Data Center
Services
(2010, South Jordan, Acquired)
3
(-)
Data Center Providers > DC with Bare Metal Servers
Companies that provide bare metal data centers along with conducive environment
$80.6M
(+$62.7M)
5
(+2)
Liqid
(2013, Broomfield, $61.3M)
4
(+3)
Data Center Providers > Modular Data centers
Companies that provide portable data centers
$54M
(+$49.2M)
6
(+2)
Nautilus Data
Technologies
(2013, Pleasanton, $48M)
5
(-3)
Equipment > Converged Infrastructure
Companies that offer products which operate by grouping of multiple infrastructure
(Companies covered 31 | Funded 18 | Total Funding $1.3B)
$182M
(-$11.7M)
3
(-5)
Cloudian
(2011, Foster City, $176M)
6
(-3)
DC Infrastructure Management > Energy & Power Management
Companies that offer software or appliances that manage power and cooling in a data center
$62.6M
(+$49.2M)
4
(-1)
Device42
(2010, New Haven, $38.5M)
55
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 (April 2017 - March 2019)
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Top Markets of Investment Activity

Rank Market # Investments Key Investments
1
Data Center Providers > DC with Bare Metal Servers
Companies that provide bare metal data centers along with conducive environment
(Companies created 15 | Funded 6 | Total Funding $107M )
1 Packet (2014, New York City, $40M)
2
DC Infrastructure Management > Performance Monitoring
Companies that provide platforms/software for performance monitoring of data center equipment
(Companies created 14 | Funded 10 | Total Funding $285M )
1 rENIAC (2012, San Francisco, $0)
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
56
Top Markets of Early Stage Investors
Top Markets where Early Stage Investors are investing in last 2 years (April 2017 - March 2019)
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Top Markets of Early Stage Investors

Incubators
Seed Advent International (#1), Great Hill Partners (#1)
Series A/B Seaport Capital (#2), IFC (#1)
Series C+ Goldman Sachs (#1), MC Partners (#1)
Manx Telecom Feb - 2014
IPO'd on LON
Cogeco Peer Feb - 2019
Acq by Digital Colony for $546M
Teraco Jan - 2019
Acq by Berkshire Partners
4Degrees Colocation Dec - 2018
Acq by Vantage Data Center Services for
$200M
Nebraska Data Centers Nov - 2018
Acq by NPG
Linx Telecom Nov - 2018
Acq by EdgeConneX
$110k - Series A
Aligned Energy (2003, Danbury,
$110k)
$20.7M - Series B
New Continuum (2009, West Chicago,
$30.7M)
$12M - Series A
ODATA (2015, Sao Paulo, $12M)
PE
Advania (1939, Reykjavik)
$5.9M - Series A
DataVita (2015, Bellshill, $5.9M)
$2.8B - PE
Apr 2019
CenturyLink Wins First EIS Task Order to Provide Fast,
Secure Connectivity to NASA, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
Apr 2019
Digital Realty completes sale of 49% stake in Brazil data
centres to Brookfield, Capacity Media
Apr 2019
Why CenturyLink kept its headquarters in Louisiana –
BizWest, BizWest
Apr 2019
Apr 2019
phoenixNAP Announces Expansion with Three New Data
Center Locations, PRWeb
Apr 2019
DigiPlex Launches Nordic Connect Platform To Produce A
Data Centre Ecosystem, Data Economy
Apr 2019 CenturyLink Taps Streamroot for P2P Assist, Light Reading
Apr 2019
SHAREHOLDER ALERT BY FORMER LOUISIANA ATTORNEY
GENERAL: KSF REMINDS CAG, WTW, CTL, BPI INVESTORS of
Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuits,
GlobeNewswire
Apr 2019
Selectel, DDoS-guard launch traffic filtering node in St
Petersburg, Telecompaper
Apr 2019
Zayo +4% on report sale process moving with multiple
bidders, Seeking Alpha
Apr 2019
Ziv Catriel Joins ServerFarm as Evp, Incommand Services,
Newswire
News
132
34
68
145
564
M&A/IPO
Series C+
Series A+
Funded
Companies
Covered
Funding Funnel
Data Center Providers > Colocation: Market Factsheet
57
Exits
Recent InvestmentsCompanies that provide data
center facilities with conducive
environment to house servers on
rental basis
Switch
(2000, Las Vegas)
Over the Wire
(2012, Spring Hill)
Manx Telecom
(1986, Douglas)
Asia Pacific Data Centre
(2013, Deal)
Interxion
(1998, Amsterdam, $568M)
Top Companies
#1 Top Markets of Investment Activity
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Colocation
Companies Created 564 | Funded 145 | Total Funding $6.9B
0
20
40
$0k
$5.B
$10.B
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Predicted Funding YoY Funding
Rounds Predicted Rounds
YoY Funding and Rounds
Market: Colocation

Data Center Providers > Colocation: Top Companies
Market: Colocation (1/3)
Analyst’s Pick
services company
Starboard Value, GTCR, Charlesbank Capital
Investors
Analyst’s Pick
$300M)
C7 Data Centers (2000, Lindon, $29M)
Colocation and cloud consulting
MCG Capital, Canopy Ventures, Zions Bank
Analyst’s Pick
Bank of America, KeyBank, Deutsche Bank, General
Atlantic
3S Group (2002, Katowice, $24.6M)
DataCenter colocation and Service Provider
Minicorn. Stage: Funded
Enterprise Investors
TasmaNet (2004, Hobart, $5.3M)
IT hosting infrastructure, and data centers company

Analyst’s Pick
Washington D.C.)
Communications, NorgesInvestor
Analyst’s Pick
BMO Harris Bank, Credit Agricole CIB, Ing Capital
Markets and 2 Other Investors
Novacap, Riverside Partners, ATN, BIA Digital
Partners
National Australia Bank
Analyst’s Pick
recovery.
service provider
Bridge Data Centres (2017, Singapore)
Provider of data centre services
Editor's Pick. Stage: Unfunded
BT Ireland (1990, Dublin)
Communications and IT services provider
Editor's Pick. Stage: Seed
Advent International

Analyst’s Pick
C Spire (1988, Ridgeland)
Mobile communication and fiber broadband
services provider
Editor's Pick. Stage: Bootstrapped Large
Acacia
iSeek Communications (1998, Brisbane)
Data center, internet and managed cloud services
Macquarie Telecom Group (2000, Sydney)
Provider of data centre(Tier III), cloud, cyber
security and telecom service
Netrality (2015, New York City)
Colocation provider
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
61
Data Center Providers > Colocation: Leaderboard
Better than Market Average
Market: Colocation
Overall
Rating
Company
Name
Year Location Stage
Funding
($M)
Funding
Rounds
Team
Rating
Execution Quality Size Metrics 6M Growth Metrics
App
Rating
App UI
Web
UI
Social
Followers
Mobile
Downloads
Mobile
Reviews
News
Mentions
Mobile
Reviews
Social
Followers
Δ % Δ %
5.0 CenturyLink 1930 Monroe Acquired $20M 11 5 2 4 4 33.1k 384k 1.3k 400 349 38% 5k 17%
4.7 CoreSite 2001 Denver Public $420M 5 - - - - 5.9k - - 39 - - 133 2%
4.7 TierPoint 2010
Liberty
Lake
Acquired $49M 2 - - - - 1.9k - - 28 - - 214 13%
4.6 Teraco 2007
Johannesbu
rg
Acquired $28M 5 - - - - 1.7k - - 15 - - 93 6%
4.6 Cologix 2010 Denver Acquired $75.8M 2 - - - - 2.4k - - 24 - - 76 3%
4.5
365 Data
Centers
2012 Emeryville Acquired $16M 3 - - - - 1.8k - - 16 - - 89 5%
4.5
Netmagic
Solutions
1999 Mumbai Acquired $39.9M 3 - - - - 1.3k - - 20 - - 51 4%
4.4
ROOT Data
Center
2013 Montreal Series B $115M 2 - - - - 950 - - 9 - - 31 3%
4.4 QTS 2005
Overland
Park
Public $25M 6 - 5 - - 3.4k 750 2 78 - - 126 4%
4.4 Interxion 1998 Amsterdam Acquired $568M 8 3 - - - 8.9k - - 58 - - 67 1%
4.3
New
Continuum
2009
West
Chicago
Series B $30.7M 6 - - - - 2.3k - - 5 - - 25 1%
4.2
Etix
Everywhere
2012
Luxembour
g
Series A $16.5M 2 - - - - 666 - - 8 - - 40 6%
4.2 LightEdge 1996 Des Moines Acquired $16M 1 - - - - 1.1k - - 2 - - 132 14%

Incubators
Seed Silver Lake (#1), Demeter (#1)
Series A/B Benchmark (#1), Temasek (#1)
Series C+ Infratil (#1), General Catalyst Partners (#1)
Basefarm Jul - 2018
Acq by Orange Business for $409M
Kolos Mar - 2018
Acq by HIVE Blockchain Technologies
for $9.9M
Vantage Data Center Services
Jan - 2017
Acq by Digital Bridge Holdings for $1B
CentriLogic Jun - 2013
Acq by CentriLogic
Equinix Aug - 2000
IPO'd on NASDAQ
Gyron Internet Jun - 2012
Acq by NTT communications
$180M - Series D
$36.1M - PE
$1.8M - Seed
Stimergy (2013, Grenoble, $1.8M)
$579k - Seed
Hydro66 (2014, Boden, $579k)
$2.5M - Series A
Kolos (2016, Oslo, $2.5M)
$535k - Series A
Green House Data (2007, Cheyenne,
$3.8M)
Apr 2019
VentureBeat
Mar 2019
Colocation providers investing billions in Australian data
centres, ARN
Mar 2019
Equinix rolls out IBX SmartView service in Sao Paulo,
Telecompaper
Mar 2019
Equinix Releases The Date Its $19m Bulgarian Data Centre Is
Set To Go Live, Data Economy
Mar 2019
Embedded Computing Ecosystem Market Key players: Apple
Inc., IBM, Cisco Systems, Equinix, FUJITSU, Eaton, NTT
Communications and so on, Red Newswire
Mar 2019
Alibaba, Cisco, Equinix, Red Hat, The UN – to speak at Edge
Asia 2019 in Singapore, TELECOMDRIVE
Mar 2019
Equinix Appoints Three Company Veterans to New Roles, PR
Newswire
Mar 2019
Equinix to build $84 million data center in Melbourne,
DatacenterDynamics
Feb 2019 Equinix Builds 'Network Edge' for Global NFV, Light Reading
Feb 2019 Equinix plans $900M share offering, Seeking Alpha
Feb 2019
The Equinix Expands the Use of Cisco NSO for
Interconnection Services Automation -
ResearchAndMarkets.com, Business Wire
Feb 2019
RackBank to set up Hyper Data Centre at Inforpark, Commits
Rs 1,000 cr Investments, News Experts
Feb 2019
Vantage Data Centers Raises Additional $675M in Debt and
Equity Financing, FinSMEs
News
8
5
9
11
33
M&A/IPO
Series C+
Series A+
Funded
Companies
Covered
Funding Funnel
Data Center Providers > Colocation > Green Data Centers: Market Factsheet
62
Exits
Recent InvestmentsCompanies that provide data
center colocation services which
are powered using renewable
energy.
Hydro66
(2014, Boden, $579k)
Equinix
CDC
(2007, Canberra, $321M)
Verne Global
(2007, Keflavik, $98M)
Top Companies
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Green Data Centers
Companies Created 33 | Funded 11 | Total Funding $802M
0
5
10
$0k
$200M
$400M
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Market: Green Data Centers

Data Center Providers > Colocation > Green Data Centers: Top Companies
Analyst’s Pick
Jordan, $180M)
Investors
Verne Global (2007, Keflavik, $98M)
Data center and colocation services with data
center in Iceland
Minicorn. Stage: Series D
Wellcome Trust, General Catalyst Partners, Novator
Partners
Analyst’s Pick
ESDS (2005, Nashik, $4M)
Cloud hosting & data centre solutions for
businesses
Minicorn. Stage: Series A
Canbank Venture Capital Fund, KfW Bankengruppe
Provider of green data centers
Demeter, Phitrust Impact Investors, Aviva,
InnoEnergy
Colocation provider
EcoDataCenter (2017)
Colocation and data center service provider

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Data Center Providers > Colocation > Green Data Centers: Leaderboard
Overall
Rating
Company
Name
Year Location Stage
Funding
($M)
Funding
Rounds
Team
Rating
App
Rating
App UI
Web
UI
Social
Followers
Mobile
Downloads
Mobile
Reviews
News
Mentions
Mobile
Reviews
Social
Followers
Δ % Δ %
5.0
Vantage Data
Center
Services
2010
South
Jordan
Acquired $180M 7 - - - - 1.6k - - 16 - - 116 8%
4.8 Equinix 1998
Redwood
City
Acquired $175M 8 5 4 4 4 22.3k 8k 28 237 5 22% 677 3%
4.5 ESDS 2005 Nashik Series A $4M 2 - - - - 4.2k - - 8 - - 335 9%
4.5 Verne Global 2007 Keflavik Series D $98M 1 4 - - - 2.3k - - 12 - - 29 1%
4.1
Green House
Data
2007 Cheyenne Series A $3.8M 3 - - - - 3.5k - - 13 - - 2 -
3.7 Colovore 2012 Santa Clara Series B $8.1M 2 - - - - 55 - - 5 - - 2 4%
3.6 Hydro66 2014 Boden Public $579k 1 - - - - 545 - - 4 - - 12 2%
3.2 CentriLogic 2009 Lochristi Acquired $6.2M 1 - - - - 176 - - - - - 4 2%
3.2 CDC 2007 Canberra Funded $321M 3 3 - - - - - - 3 - - - -
3.0 Aruba 2011 0.0 Unfunded - - - 3 - - 11k 406k 1.4k 4 148 13% - -
2.9 Kolos 2016 Oslo Acquired $2.5M 1 4 - - 3 - - - 4 - - - -
2.1 3W Infra 2014 Amsterdam Unfunded - - - - - 3 450 - - 7 - - 12 3%
2.0 RackBank 2013 Indore Unfunded - - 2 - - - 735 - - 1 - - 16 2%
1.9 Basefarm 2000 Oslo Acquired - - 4 - - 3 1 - - 4 - - - -

Incubators
Seed Phison Electronics Corporation (#1), DH Capital (#1)
Series A/B Battery Ventures (#1), SoftBank Group (#1)
Series C+ DvH Ventures (#1), Inflexion Private Equity (#1)
Kingsland Data Center May - 2018
Acq by Keppel DC REIT for $221M
PE
UKFast (1999, Manchester)
$7.5M - Series C
$38.1M - Series C
$25M - Series B
$10M - Series A
$9.4M - Series A
$2.8M - Series A
Bigstep (2013, London, $3.2M)
$5.7M - Seed
$1.7M - Seed
$2.1M - Series A
FortaTrust (2002, Doral, $2.1M)
$375k - Seed
Bigstep (2013, London, $3.2M)
Apr 2019
PHP Web Attacks Have Nearly Doubled, Says UK Hosting
Company UKFast, HostingJournalist
Mar 2019
UKFast may go underground to build two further data
centres, Data Economy
Mar 2019 UKFast unveils plans for future campus growth, PCR
Mar 2019 UKFast creating 100 new apprenticeship roles, Prolific North
Feb 2019
UKFast offers new instant app deployment feature on eCloud
services, Telecompaper
Jan 2019
UKFast brings three brands under one roof, Manchester
Evening News
Jan 2019 UKFast closed record year with investment deal, UKTN
Dec 2018
Unitec teams up with Datacom to offer coding courses,
Reseller
Dec 2018 Liqid raises more than $7M in capital, BizWest
Dec 2018
Liqid and Intel® Optane™ Aim for DRAM at Gartner IT
Infrastructure 2018, Business Wire
Oct 2018
MDXI, Asteroid Launch Carrier-Neutral IXP for West Africa,
Business Post Nigeria
Oct 2018
UKFast secures Manchester City Council contract, Insider
Media
Oct 2018 Digital Wealth Manager Liqid Raises €33M, FinSMEs
Sep 2018
Federated Wireless and Packet Announce Collaboration,
Citybizlist
Aug 2018
UKFast wins renewed emergency response contract,
BusinessCloud
News
2
3
5
6
15
M&A/IPO
Series C+
Series A+
Funded
Companies
Covered
Funding Funnel
Data Center Providers > DC with Bare Metal Servers: Market Factsheet
65
Exits
Recent InvestmentsCompanies that provide bare
metal data centers along with
conducive environment
Liqid
(2013, Broomfield, $61.3M)
Packet
(2014, New York City, $40M)
Bigstep
(2013, London, $3.2M)
Datacom
(1965, Auckland)
ENAHOST
(2006, Bratislava)
Top Companies
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: DC with Bare Metal Servers
0
5
10
15
$0k
$100M
$200M
$300M
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Market: DC with Bare Metal Servers

Data Center Providers > DC with Bare Metal Servers: Top Companies
Analyst’s Pick
Minicorn. Stage: Series C
Minicorn. Stage: Series B
Leasing and 4 Other Investors
Datacom (1965, Auckland)
Data centre service provider

67
Data Center Providers > DC with Bare Metal Servers: Leaderboard
Overall
Rating
Company
Name
Year Location Stage
Funding
($M)
Funding
Rounds
Team
Rating
App
Rating
App UI
Web
UI
Social
Followers
Mobile
Downloads
Mobile
Reviews
News
Mentions
Mobile
Reviews
Social
Followers
Δ % Δ %
5.0 Packet 2014
New York
City
Series B $40M 4 4 - - - 4.2k - - 19 - - 523 15%
4.5 Liqid 2013 Broomfield Series C $61.3M 5 3 - - - 491 - - 17 - - 32 7%
4.0 UKFast 1999 Manchester Funded - 1 - - - 4 36.5k - - 52 - - 60 -
3.8 Bigstep 2013 London Series A $3.2M 2 - - - - 1.2k - - 1 - - 90 8%
3.5
Next
Generation
Data
2007 London Acquired - 1 - - - - 61 - - - - - 4 7%
2.4 Datacom 1965 Auckland Unfunded - - 4 - - 3 4.7k - - 3 - - 41 1%
2.3 MDXi 2014 Abuja Unfunded - - - - - 3 754 - - 8 - - 30 4%
1.4
Kingsland
Data Center
1974 Singapore Acquired - - - - - 3 - - - 1 - - - -
1.3 ENAHOST 2006 Bratislava Unfunded - - - - - 3 30 - - - - - 4 15%
0.9 Reviced 2001 Meppel Unfunded - - - - - 3 829 - - - - - -9 -1%
0.7 Intergrid 2014 0.0 Unfunded - - - - - 4 14 - - - - - - -
0.3
QOS
Consulting
2007
Hoffman
Estates
Unfunded - - 3 - - 3 4 - - 1 - - - -
0.1 RiverSync 2012 Bangkok Unfunded - - - - - 3 5 - - - - - - -
0.0 Mass 2004 London Unfunded - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Modular Data centers
Market: Modular Data centers

Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Converged Infrastructure
Companies Created 31 | Funded 18 | Total Funding $1.3B
Market: Converged Infrastructure

Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Energy & Power Management
Market: Energy & Power Management

#2 Top Markets of Early Stage Investors
Data Center Infrastructure > Market Details > Market: Performance Monitoring
Market: Performance Monitoring

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

Public companies (1/7)
82
Performance indicators of public companies in Data Center Infrastructure
IPO Date Company
IPO
Mcap
Exchange
Ticker
Jun 2018
Manufacturer of products for storage, data processing or
computation needs
$137M EPA:2CRSI
Oct 2017
$4.2B NYSE:SWCH
Nov 2016
Global Data Solutions (2000, Chaoyang)
Leading provider of high-performance data center infrastructure
$941M NASDAQ:GDS
Sep 2016
Nutanix (2009, San Jose)
$2.2B NASDAQ:NTNX
Oct 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (1939, Palo Alto)
NYSE:HPE
Mar 2015
Data center and telecommunication service provider
$33.1M ASX:OTW
Oct 2014
Zayo Group (2007, Boulder)
Colocation and communication infrastructure services company
$4.5B NYSE:ZAYO
Aug 2014
Asetek (2000, Aalborg)
OTCMKTS:ASKT
F
Jul 2014
Atlas Cloud (2013, Vancouver)
Tier 2 data center and cloud services provider
$977k CNSX:AKE
Data Center Infrastructure > Exit Outlook > Public Companies

83
IPO Date Company
IPO
Mcap
Exchange
Ticker
Mar 2014
Acer (1987, Taipei)
TPE:2353
Feb 2014
telecommunications services and data center service provider
$263M LON:MANX
Oct 2013
QTS (2005, Overland Park)
$734M NYSE:QTS
Sep 2013
$103M ASX:AJD
Jan 2013
$369M NASDAQ:CONE
Mar 2012
Connected technologies and solutions to manage energy
NSE:SCHNEIDER
Apr 2011
21vianet (1999, Beijing)
Managed network service provider
VNET
Jan 2011
Interxion (1998, Amsterdam)
$844M NYSE:INXN
Dec 2010
NASDAQ:OSS
Dec 2010
$78.8M ASX:NXT

84
IPO Date Company
IPO
Mcap
Exchange
Ticker
Oct 2010
Hydro66 (2014, Boden)
$12.3M CNSX :SIX
Sep 2010
CoreSite (2001, Denver)
$734M NYSE:COR
Nov 2008
Acropolis (2001, Paris)
$712k
EURONEXT:MLA
CR
Oct 2007
DuPont Fabros Technology (1997, Washington D.C.)
NYSE:DFT
Jul 2007
BladeLogic (2001, Houston)
$440M NASDAQ:BLOG
Mar 2007
$229M NASDAQ:SMCI
Feb 2007
Data center and colocation services in North America
$575M NASDAQ:SDXC
Dec 2005
Tulip Telecom (1992, Delhi)
Enterprise communications and data center service provider
TTSL
Jun 2005
Silicon Graphics International Corp (1999, Milpitas)
High Performance Computing, and data management.
$240M NASDAQ:RACK
Mar 2001
Opsware (1999, Sunnyvale)
Data center automation product to provision servers
LDCL

85
IPO Date Company
IPO
Mcap
Exchange
Ticker
Aug 2000
Equinix (1998, Redwood City)
$885M NASDAQ:EQIX
Jun 2000
$84.9M NASDAQ:QBAK
Feb 2000
Savvis (1992, Sarasota)
$2.2B NASDAQ:SVVS
Oct 1999
ASX:VOC
Sep 1999
Colocation, managed hosting and telecommunication
$26.2M ASX:MAQ
Mar 1999
ADVA Optical Networking (1994, Martinsried)
Network equipment for data, storage, voice and video services
FRA:ADV
Mar 1998
Colocation, Internet hosting and internet service provider
$269M EXDS
Nov 1997
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (1979, Sunnyvale)
Cloud computing and connectivity products for data centers
$158M NASDAQ:AMCC
Jun 1997
Provider of IAM and data center intelligence and automation solution
FRA:BSSA
Jan 1994
Dr Peng Telecom & Media Group (1985, Beijing)
Internet broadband services provider
SHA:600804

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IPO Date Company
IPO
Mcap
Exchange
Ticker
Sep 1993
KDDI (1984, Tokyo)
TYO:9433
Dec 1992
NASDAQ:BBOX
Aug 1988
CenturyLink (1930, Monroe)
NYSE:CTL
Jun 1988
Enterprise solutions and consumer elecctronics company
DELL
Jan 1978
NYSE:ETN
Jan 1970
IBM (1911, Armonk)
NYSE:IBM
Telecom operator and data centers provider in Czech Republic
High Speed Internet, Digital Phone and Web Hosting Services
CVE:USS

87
IPO Date Company
IPO
Mcap
Exchange
Ticker
RiT Technologies (1989, Tel Aviv)
IT infrastructure and data center management and connectivity
solutions
Rackwise (2007, Folsom)
DCIM software suite
Telecommunication, logistics and data center services
SGX:K11
Inspur (2004, Jinan)
Supplier of Compute Platforms to Enterprises
Telecommunications service to residential and business customers,
and operators
BME:MAS
Fiber-optic cable accessories and passive equipment provider
Etasis Electronics Corporation (1996, Taipei)

88
IPO Date Company
IPO
Mcap
Exchange
Ticker
Colt (1992, London)
Designs and manufactures standard and customized racks

Notable Acquisitions (1/9)
89
Notable Acquisitions in Data Center Infrastructure
Data Center Infrastructure > Exit Outlook > Notable Acquisitions
2019 YTD
Acquirer: Basalt Infrastructure Partners
Deal: $335M
service provider
Acquirer: Digital Colony Deal: $546M
Acquirer: Berkshire Partners
Teraco (2007, Johannesburg, $28M)
Vendor Neutral Data Center Infrastructure in South
Africa
Acquirer: Iliad Group Deal: $114M
solutions provider
Acquirer: Macquarie Group Deal: $319M
2018
Acquirer: Vantage Data Center Services
Deal: $200M
Acquirer:
Acquirer: NEXTDC Deal: $154M
Acquirer: IRIDEOS
services provider
Acquirer: Digital Realty Deal: $1.8B
2018
Acquirer: LightEdge
recovery.
Acquirer: Orange Business Deal: $409M
Colocation provider
Acquirer: Iron Mountain Deal: $237M
Acquirer: Keppel DC REIT Deal: $221M
Acquirer: Kaseya
Unitrends (1989, Burlington, $22.6M)
Integrated backup and disaster recovery solutions
Acquirer: Vista Equity Partners

90
2018
Acquirer: GTT Communications
Deal: $2.3B
Acquirer: AMP Capital
Acquirer: Antin Infrastructure Partners
Acquirer: Cisco
applications
Acquirer: Iron Mountain Deal: $1.3B
2017
Acquirer: Blackstone Deal: $190M
provider
Acquirer: CyrusOne Deal: $442M
(2012, London)
Acquirer: Equinix Deal: $793M
Acquirer: Digital Realty Deal: $5B
Washington D.C.)
Acquirer: Keppel DC REIT Deal: $101M
2017
Acquirer: Suzhou Chunxing Precision
Mechanical
Acquirer: Peak 10 Deal: $1.7B
Acquirer: Iron Mountain Deal: $128M
Acquirer: Crown Castle Deal: $600M
$300M)

91
2017
Acquirer: Zayo Group
Integra Telecom (1996, Vancouver, $617M)
Provides facilities-based communications and
network services
Acquirer: Stonepeak Infrastructure
Partners
Cologix (2010, Denver, $75.8M)
Data center colocation services and
interconnection
Acquirer: Digital Bridge Holdings
Deal: $1B
Jordan, $180M)
Acquirer: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Deal: $650M
2017
Acquirer: DataBank
Acquirer: DataBank
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: Bowmark Capital
Node4 (2004, Derby)
Data center and colocation solutions
Acquirer: ALA Services
Adaptive Computing (2001, Provo, $20M)
Provides intelligent automation software for HPC,
data center and cloud environments
Acquirer: BCE Deal: $675M
Acquirer: InfraVia Capital Partners
Deal: $130M

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2016
Acquirer: Vocus Deal: $534M
Network infrastructure connectivity and data center
services provider
Acquirer: Liquid Telecom Deal: $428M
provider
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: MIRAIT Deal: $126M
2016
Acquirer: Equinix Deal: $3.8B
2015
Acquirer: Delta Electronics Deal: $530M
Acquirer: Barracuda Deal: $65M
Intronis (2003, Chelmsford, $20.9M)
Data protection solutions
Acquirer: Digital Realty Deal: $1.9B
Acquirer: Charlesbank Capital Partners
Six Degrees Group (2011, London, $106M)
Managed Data Services Provider
Acquirer: Equinix Deal: $3.8B

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2015
Acquirer: TelecityGroup Deal: $2.2B
Acquirer: Zayo Group Deal: $675M
2014
Acquirer: Ericsson
Sentilla (2003, Redwood City, $28.5M)
Cloud performance management and data center
infrastructure management solutions provider
Acquirer: Ericsson
Cloud performance management and data analytics
solutions provider
Acquirer: Microsoft
InMage Systems (2002, San Jose, $38.3M)
Cloud-based disaster recovery and business
continuity
Acquirer: GI Partners
2014
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)
networks
Acquirer: Zayo Group Deal: $294M
Acquirer: Panduit
SynapSense (2006, Folsom, $44.5M)
Wireless cooling and data center asset monitoring
solution.

94
2014
Acquirer: Siris Capital Deal: $352M
Acquirer: NTT communications
Deal: $350M
2013
Acquirer: Internap Deal: $145M
Acquirer: Rogers Communications
Deal: $155M
Acquirer: Cisco Deal: $107M
Acquirer: EQT Ventures Deal: $1.4B
Acquirer: Rogers Communications
Deal: $200M
2013
Acquirer: Silver Lake Deal: $24.9B
company

95
2012
Acquirer: Cogeco Deal: $635M
Acquirer: Stratus Technologies
$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.
2011
Acquirer: Deal: $120M
Smooth-Stone (2008, Austin, $48M)
Solutions to minimize energy usage in data centers
Acquirer: CenturyLink Deal: $2.5B
Acquirer: CenturyLink Deal: $2.5B
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: Deal: $720M
Acquirer: Dell
Scalent (2002, Palo Alto, $27M)
Virtualization software
Acquirer: Cincinnati Bell Deal: $525M
Acquirer: Savvis Deal: $121M
Mississauga, $39M)

96
2009
America
Before 2008
Acquirer: IBM
Platform Solutions (1999, Sunnyvale, $37M)
Mainframe computers compatible with data center
environments
Acquirer: BMC Software Deal: $800M
Acquirer: Novell Deal: $205M
Acquirer: Hewlett-Packard Deal: $1.6B
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
Acquirer: EMC Deal: $153M
Acquirer: Astrid Electronics
Acquirer: Cisco Deal: $250M
Francisco, $67M)

97
Before 2008
Acquirer: EMC Deal: $260M
centers.
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
solutions
Acquirer: Cable & Wireless
Communications Deal: $750M
Colocation, Internet hosting and internet service
provider
Before 2008

Most Active Acquirers
98
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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 (Apr 2014 - Mar 2019)
Index of Most Active VC & PE Investors
SEED STAGE
Demeter (2 Investments)
Phitrust Impact Investors (2 Investments)
Crosslink Capital
Menlo Ventures
One Equity Partners
BLH Venture Partners
Burch Creative Capital
Formation 8
360 Capital Partners
Initialized Capital
Elaia
LRVHealth
Montage Ventures
Neulogy Ventures
EARLY STAGE
Intel Capital (2 Investments)
Battery Ventures (2 Investments)
Kleiner Perkins
Crosslink Capital
Mayfield
ABRY Partners
Index Ventures
Menlo Ventures
Sutter Hill Ventures
Divergent Ventures
SET Ventures
LATE STAGE
MC Partners
First Analysis
TA Associates Management
Northgate Capital
INCJ
S3 Ventures
Icon Ventures
Cisco Investments
ST Telemedia
Epsilon Venture Partners
Infratil
SDC Capital Partners
GV

102
Portfolio in Data Center Infrastructure | Exits | Funds Link | Website | LinkedIn | Twitter
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > New Enterprise Associates
People
Investments
[Unicorn] Snapchat (2011, Los Angeles, $2.6B, Public)
Multimedia messaging application
[Unicorn] Intarcia (1997, Boston, $1.5B, Series J)
Osmotic pump for subcutaneous drug delivery
[Unicorn] Opendoor (2014, San Francisco, $1.3B, Series F)
Residential re-selling solution provider.
[Unicorn] Bloom Energy (2001, Sunnyvale, $1.2B, Public)
Builds solid oxide fuel cell technology
[Unicorn] Groupon (2008, Chicago, $1.1B, Public)
Daily deals website
[Unicorn] 23andMe (2006, Mountain View, $791M, Series F)
Enables customers to study their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited
traits
[Unicorn] Box (2005, Los Altos, $701M, Public)
File sharing in the cloud
[Unicorn] Vonage (2001, Holmdel, $671M, Public)
Offers VoIP services
[Unicorn] Houzz (2009, Palo Alto, $614M, Series E)
Online commerce and community platform for home remodeling and
design
[Unicorn] Robinhood (2012, Palo Alto, $539M, Series D)
Zero commission trading app
[Unicorn] Databricks (2013, San Francisco, $498M, Series E)
Platform to Ingest and Analyze and Visualize Data on a spark cluster
[Unicorn] BuzzFeed (2008, New York City, $497M, Series F)
US-based social news provider
[Unicorn] Desktop Metal (2015, Cambridge, $438M, Series E)
3D printers for printing metal parts
Other Notable Portfolio
Top Exits
Recent News on Fund & Portfolio
Dick Kramlich
Co-Founder
Frank Bonsal
Co-Founder
Geographical Spread Stage of Entry
Aug 2018
Newisys Announces NSS2560, 56 NVMe Drive 2U Sever,
Storage Review
Aug 2018
Newisys to Showcase New Disruptive Storage Solutions at
Flash Memory Summit 2018, PressReleasePoint
Nov 2017
Newisys to Demonstrate Range of High Performance
NVMe Flash Storage Platforms at Super Compute 2017,
PressReleasePoint
Nov 2017
Toshiba and Newisys Deliver HPC Storage with NVMe-oF
at SuperComputing 2017, Business Wire
Aug 2017
Newisys Wins Best of Show Innovation Award at the 2017
Flash Memory Summit, 4-Traders
Aug 2017 NVMe fabric storage delivers 15M IOPS, 75GB/s, EDN Asia
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
Newisys - A Division of
Sanmina Corporation
(2000, San Jose, $55M)
Acq by Sanmina - Jul 2003
Cassatt
(2003, San Jose, $15M)
Acq by CA Technologies - Jun
2009
NodePrime
(2013, San Francisco, $8.5M)
Acq by Ericsson - Apr 2016
1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Follow On New Investments
-
1
1
1
1
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed4
-
-
-
-
US

Crosslink Capital
103
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Crosslink Capital
People
Investments
[Unicorn] Postmates (2011, San Francisco, $681M, Series F)
On Demand Delivery through Mobile App
[Unicorn] Casper (2014, New York City, $340M, Series D)
Online direct-to-consumer mattress brand
[Unicorn] Chime Bank (2013, San Francisco, $305M, Series D)
Internet-first bank
[Unicorn] Coupa (2006, San Mateo, $169M, Public)
Cloud spend management software
[Soonicorn] Prosper (2005, San Francisco, $401M, Series G)
P2P Lending Marketplace
[Soonicorn] Personal Capital (2009, Redwood City, $264M,
Series E)
Technology-augmented human advice platform
[Soonicorn] SoloPower (2005, San Jose, $228M, Series E)
Manufactures thin-film photovoltaic cells
[Soonicorn] DataStax (2010, Santa Clara, $190M, Series E)
Database Platform built on Apache Cassandra
[Soonicorn] Nav (2012, San Mateo, $148M, Series C)
Business credit monitoring and financing
[Soonicorn] Hired (2012, San Francisco, $133M, Series D)
Marketplace for pre-assessed candidates
[Soonicorn] Enigma (2011, New York City, $130M, Series C)
Data management and analytics solution provider for financial and life
science industries
[Soonicorn] Ayla Networks (2010, Sunnyvale, $124M, Series D)
A platform for hosting connected devices
[Soonicorn] Reltio (2011, Redwood City, $117M, Series D)
Master data management PaaS
Top Exits
Michael Stark
Co-Founder
Sy Kaufman
Founder
Feb 2019
365 Data Centers Adds Cyber Security Solutions to Its
Portfolio, HostingJournalist
Jan 2019
365 Data Centers Introduces Enterprise Managed
Services Solution, Citybizlist
Dec 2018
365 Data Centers Announces Major Upgrades to Its
Southeast Florida Network, PR Newswire
Sep 2018
365 Data Centers Launches Revamped Channel Partner
Program, Capitalizing on Recent Transformation to
Hybrid IT Services Provider, PR Newswire
Aug 2018
365 Data Centers Offers Data Protection Services Through
Veeam, channelpartnersonline.com
Jun 2018
365 Data Centers Appoints Tony Franchi Senior Vice
President, Sales & Marketing, PR Newswire
Apr 2018
Global Edge Data Center Market 2018-2022 - Key Vendors
are 365 Data Centers, EdgeConneX, Huawei Investment &
Holding, Schneider Electric & vXchnge -
Apr 2018
365 Data Centers appoints new director of business
development, Capacity Media
Mar 2018 365 Data Center Refinances Debt, Citybizlist
SynapSense
(2006, Folsom, $44.5M)
Acq by Panduit - May 2014
365 Data Centers
(2012, Emeryville, $16M)
Acq by Chirisa - Apr 2017
SilverStorm Technologies
(1999, King Of Prussia, $13M)
Acq by QLogic - Oct 2006
NodePrime
Equinix
Acq by 365 Data Centers - Sep
2012
1 1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
1
1
1
-
1
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed5
-
-
-
-
US

Menlo Ventures
104
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Menlo Ventures
People
Investments
[Unicorn] Chime Bank (2013, San Francisco, $305M, Series D)
Internet-first bank
[Unicorn] Warby Parker (2010, New York City, $300M, Series E)
Internet-first brand of eyewear
[Unicorn] MZ (Machine Zone) (2008, Palo Alto, $263M, Series B)
Mobile game developer
[Unicorn] Roku (2002, Los Gatos, $214M, Public)
Video streaming device provider
[Soonicorn] Getaround (2009, San Francisco, $400M, Series D)
Peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace
[Soonicorn] Rover (2011, Seattle, $300M, Series G)
Online Pet Sitting Marketplace
[Soonicorn] Minted (2007, San Francisco, $295M, Series E)
Crowd-Sourced Paper Design from Indie Artists
[Soonicorn] Betterment (2008, New York City, $275M, Series E)
Automated investment service
[Soonicorn] Signifyd (2011, Palo Alto, $206M, Series D)
Fraud prevention & payment validation for online retailers
[Soonicorn] Poshmark (2011, Menlo Park, $203M, Series E)
Mobile first P2P marketplace for fashion products
[Soonicorn] nLIGHT (2000, Vancouver, $203M, Series F)
Develops semiconductor, optical and fiber lasers
[Soonicorn] BlueVine (2013, Redwood City, $185M, Series E)
Online invoice factoring company
[Soonicorn] Vidyo (2005, Hackensack, $176M, Series F)
High-definition video conferencing solutions
[Soonicorn] Synthego (2012, Redwood City, $159M, Series C)
Genome engineering solutions company
Top Exits
DuBose
Montgomery
Founder & Partner
Dec 2017 rENIAC Announces Investment by Intel Capital, PRWeb
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
NodePrime
1 1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
-
-
-
1
1
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed2
-
-
-
-
US

Burch Creative Capital
105
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Burch Creative Capital

Formation 8
106
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Formation 8

Initialized Capital
107
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Initialized Capital

LRVHealth
108
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > LRVHealth

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109
Seed Stage
Early Stage
Late Stage

Intel Capital
110
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Intel Capital

Battery Ventures
111
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Battery Ventures

112
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Lightspeed Venture Partners

113
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Oak Investment Partners

Kleiner Perkins
114
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Kleiner Perkins

Crosslink Capital
115
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Crosslink Capital

116
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Nexus Venture Partners

ABRY Partners
117
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > ABRY Partners

Index Ventures
118
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Index Ventures

Menlo Ventures
119
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Menlo Ventures

Sutter Hill Ventures
120
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Sutter Hill Ventures

121
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Goldman Sachs Investment Partners

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122
Seed Stage
Early Stage
Late Stage

123
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Eight Roads Ventures

MC Partners
124
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > MC Partners

First Analysis
125
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > First Analysis

TA Associates Management
126
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > TA Associates Management

Northgate Capital
127
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Northgate Capital

INCJ
128
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > INCJ

S3 Ventures
129
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > S3 Ventures

Icon Ventures
130
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Icon Ventures

Cisco Investments
131
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Cisco Investments

132
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Goldman Sachs Investment Partners

ST Telemedia
133
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > ST Telemedia

Epsilon Venture Partners
134
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Epsilon Venture Partners

SDC Capital Partners
135
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > SDC Capital Partners

GV
136
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > GV

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Incubators
Other Notable Investors
Debt Investors

Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Index of Ecosystem Investors
Index of Top Ecosystem Investors in Data Center Infrastructure; Q2 2014 - Q1 2019
Index of Ecosystem Investors
INCUBATOR
NTT Docomo Ventures
Gener8tor
OTHER NOTABLE INVESTORS
Goldman Sachs (4 Investments)
TD Securities (4 Investments)
Deutsche Bank (4 Investments)
RBC Capital Markets (3 Investments)
Barclays (3 Investments)
Bank of America (3 Investments)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3 Investments)
KeyBank (3 Investments)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (3 Investments)
Ing Capital Markets (3 Investments)
JPMorgan (2 Investments)
Matrix Partners (2 Investments)
ING (2 Investments)
TriplePoint Capital (2 Investments)
Phison Electronics Corporation (2
Investments)
DEBT INVESTORS
Western Technology Investment (5
Investments)
Connecticut Innovations (3 Investments)
Providence Equity Partners (3 Investments)
Harbert Management (2 Investments)
NewSpring Capital (2 Investments)
Silicon Valley Bank
TPG
Advantage Capital
Fortress Investment
Ardian
Blackstone
Macquarie Group
Leader Ventures
Farragut Capital Partners

NTT Docomo Ventures
139
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > NTT Docomo Ventures
People
Investments
[Soonicorn] Cloudian (2011, Foster City, $176M, Series E)
Cloud Object Storage and Converged Infrastructure provider
Data Center Infrastructure Notable Portfolio
[Soonicorn] Sigfox (2009, Labege, $331M, Series E)
Wireless network operator for IoT and M2M applications
[Soonicorn] Auth0 (2012, Bellevue, $110M, Series D)
Cloud-based identity platform for CIAM, and B2B & employee
credentialing
[Soonicorn] PrecisionHawk (2011, Raleigh, $105M, Series D)
UAV, Remote Sensing and GIS Data solutions
[Soonicorn] aCommerce (2013, Bangkok, $95M, Series B)
Ecommerce enabling suite provider
[Soonicorn] CounterTack (2007, Waltham, $92.3M, Series D)
Cloud analytics and behavior based malware detection
[Soonicorn] Whill (2012, San Francisco, $89M, Series C)
Electric wheelchair for elderly and differently-abled
[Soonicorn] TrackR (2009, Santa Barbara, $71.2M, Series B)
Tracking devices which can be attached to items
[Soonicorn] SundaySky (2007, Tel Aviv, $67M, Series D)
Personalized Interactive video solutions
[Soonicorn] Riskified (2012, Tel Aviv, $64M, Series C)
Machine learning based payment fraud prevention solution
[Soonicorn] ThreatQuotient (2013, Ashburn, $54M, Series C)
Threat Intelligence Platform for enterprise
[Soonicorn] Midokura (2010, Barcelona, $44M, Series B)
Network Virtualization leveraging existing physical infrastructure
Top Exits
Toshiki
Nakayama
CEO & President
Mar 2019
Cloudian Closes Fiscal Year as Most Widely Deployed
Independent Object Storage Provider, GlobeNewswire
Feb 2019
Cloudian HyperStore Named 2018 Product of the Year in
Software-defined and Cloud Storage by Storage Magazine,
GlobeNewswire
Feb 2019
Cloudian Announces Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Model
For On-Premises Object Storage, HostingJournalist
Feb 2019
Leading Swiss Financial Institution Deploys Cloudian
Storage for Hadoop Big Data Archive, GlobeNewswire
Jan 2019
Cloudian Provides Seamless Hybrid and Multi-cloud
Storage Integration for Veeam Environments,
GlobeNewswire
Jan 2019
Storage Magazine Names Cloudian’s HyperStore 7 a
Finalist in 2018 Products of the Year Awards,
GlobeNewswire
Nov 2018
Object Storage Company Cloudian Doubles Revenue,
HostingJournalist
Sep 2018 Cloudian Joins iRODS Consortium, GlobeNewswire
Aug 2018 Storage provider Cloudian raises $94M, TechCrunch
None
1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
-
1
-
-
-
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed1
-
-
-
-
US

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Incubators
Debt Investors

Goldman Sachs
141
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Goldman Sachs
People
Investments
[Soonicorn] AirTrunk (2015, Sydney, $307M, Series C)
[Soonicorn] Cloudian (2011, Foster City, $176M, Series E)
Cloud Object Storage and Converged Infrastructure provider
Data Center Infrastructure Notable Portfolio
[Unicorn] WeWork (2010, New York City, $13.7B, Series J)
Co-working work space community
[Unicorn] Coupang (2010, Seoul, $4.1B, Series F)
Marketplace based in Korea
[Unicorn] IHS Towers (2001, Lagos, $3.4B, Funded)
Mobile tower infrastructure provider
[Unicorn] Spotify (2006, Stockholm, $2.1B, Public)
On-demand music streaming platform
[Unicorn] Sunnova (2010, Houston, $1.5B, Series G)
Offers solar services to residential purpose
[Unicorn] Oscar (2012, New York City, $1.3B, Series D)
Internet-first health insurance provider
[Unicorn] Bloom Energy (2001, Sunnyvale, $1.2B, Public)
Builds solid oxide fuel cell technology
[Unicorn] ReNew Power Ventures (2011, Gurgaon, $1.1B,
Funded)
Renewable energy developer
[Unicorn] AUTO1 (2012, Berlin, $1.1B, Series F)
An online B2B dealer of used cars
[Unicorn] SurveyMonkey (1999, Palo Alto, $759M, Public)
Online survey and questionnaire platform
Top Exits
David Solomon
Chairman & CEO
Mar 2019
Aligned Energy Launches Aligned Access™, Its Software-
defined Connectivity Solution, Business Wire
Jan 2019
Aligned Energy Receives Uptime Institute M&O Stamp of
Approval, Business Wire
Nov 2018
Aligned Energy Appoints New Chief Development Officer,
Commercial Property Executive
Oct 2018
AirTrunk files plans for Brisbane data centre build,
itnews.com.au
Sep 2018
Air Trunk Group’s $852 million refinancing, Global Legal
Chronicle
Aug 2018
Singapore data centre startup AirTrunk raises $621m for
Australia, APAC expansion, Deal Street Asia
Jul 2018
AirTrunk makes double hire to bolster Asia Pacific
presence, Reseller
Jun 2018
Asia-Pacific data centre specialist AirTrunk recognised for
innovation at Datacloud Awards 2018, Business Chief
Jun 2018
AirTrunk recognised for innovative hyperscale data
centres, Gigabit Magazine
Mar 2018
Datacom strikes data centre services deal with AirTrunk,
Reseller
Integra Telecom
(1996, Vancouver, $617M)
Acq by Zayo Group - Mar 2017
Platform Solutions
(1999, Sunnyvale, $37M)
Acq by IBM - Jul 2008
iWeb
(1996, Montreal, $4.3M)
Acq by Internap - Oct 2013
Nutanix
(2009, San Jose, $340M)
IPO - Sep 2016
Equinix
Acq by 365 Data Centers - Sep
2012
1
2
1
3 1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
-
4
2
2
-
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed7
2
1
1
-
US
Canada
Australia
Europe

TD Securities
142
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > TD Securities
Investments
Top Exits Recent News on Fund & Portfolio
Feb 2019
365 Data Centers Adds Cyber Security Solutions to Its
Portfolio, HostingJournalist
Jan 2019
365 Data Centers Introduces Enterprise Managed
Services Solution, Citybizlist
Dec 2018
365 Data Centers Announces Major Upgrades to Its
Southeast Florida Network, PR Newswire
Sep 2018
365 Data Centers Launches Revamped Channel Partner
Program, Capitalizing on Recent Transformation to
Hybrid IT Services Provider, PR Newswire
Aug 2018
365 Data Centers Offers Data Protection Services Through
Veeam, channelpartnersonline.com
Jun 2018
365 Data Centers Appoints Tony Franchi Senior Vice
President, Sales & Marketing, PR Newswire
Apr 2018
Global Edge Data Center Market 2018-2022 - Key Vendors
are 365 Data Centers, EdgeConneX, Huawei Investment &
Holding, Schneider Electric & vXchnge -
Apr 2018
365 Data Centers appoints new director of business
development, Capacity Media
Mar 2018 365 Data Center Refinances Debt, Citybizlist
Cologix
(2010, Denver, $75.8M)
Acq by Stonepeak
Infrastructure Partners - Feb
2017
365 Data Centers
(2012, Emeryville, $16M)
Acq by Chirisa - Apr 2017
Latisys
(2007, Boulder)
Acq by Zayo Group - Jan 2015
CoreSite
(2001, Denver, $420M)
IPO - Sep 2010
1 1 1 1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
-
-
-
-
-
Undisclosed
Series C+
Series B
Series A
Seed5
-
-
-
-
US

Deutsche Bank
143
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Deutsche Bank

RBC Capital Markets
144
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > RBC Capital Markets

Barclays
145
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Barclays

Bank of America
146
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Bank of America

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
147
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > JPMorgan Chase & Co.

KeyBank
148
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > KeyBank

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
149
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Ing Capital Markets
150
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Ing Capital Markets

JPMorgan
151
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > JPMorgan

Matrix Partners
152
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Matrix Partners

ING
153
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > ING

TriplePoint Capital
154
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > TriplePoint Capital

Phison Electronics Corporation
155
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Phison Electronics Corporation

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News
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Incubators
Debt Investors

Western Technology Investment
157
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Western Technology Investment

Connecticut Innovations
158
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Connecticut Innovations

159
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Providence Equity Partners

Harbert Management
160
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Harbert Management

NewSpring Capital
161
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > NewSpring Capital

Silicon Valley Bank
162
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Silicon Valley Bank

TPG
163
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > TPG

Advantage Capital
164
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Advantage Capital

165
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Wellington Financial

Fortress Investment
166
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Fortress Investment

Ardian
167
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Ardian

Blackstone
168
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Blackstone

Macquarie Group
169
Data Center Infrastructure > Investors > Macquarie Group

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Key Markets
Exit Outlook
Investors
News
Appendix
170
Recent News

Recent News (1/2)
172
Data Center Infrastructure > News > Recent News
Apr 2019
CenturyLink Wins First EIS Task Order to Provide Fast, Secure
Connectivity to NASA, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
Phil Mottram escapes Zayo to join Tarek Robbiati at HPE, Capacity
Media
Apr 2019
IBM Abandons Marketing Technology, Sells Out To Private Equity,
Which-50
Apr 2019
Indian IT services firms are strengthening consulting practice:
Experts, Business Standard
Apr 2019
Aços Macom Industria y Comércio Ltda’s $5.7 Million Acquisition of
a Eaton Ltda property in São Paulo, Global Legal Chronicle
Apr 2019
Apr 2019 Eaton lands Gaza wastewater treatment plant contract, Trade Arabia
Apr 2019
Enjoy Always-On Internet Access with Tripp Lite’s PDU15NETLX
Mini PDU, PRWeb
Apr 2019
VentureBeat
Apr 2019
Digital Realty completes sale of 49% stake in Brazil data centres to
Brookfield, Capacity Media
Apr 2019
IBM listed as Visionary Leader by 360Quadrants in AI in Fintech, PR
Newswire
Apr 2019
Zayo waits for next week’s bids that could value it at $9 billion,
Capacity Media
Apr 2019
Unitrends Launches New Set of Backup/Recovery Appliances,
eWEEK
Apr 2019
Why CenturyLink kept its headquarters in Louisiana – BizWest,
BizWest
Apr 2019
Apr 2019
Brazil’s ODATA Selects CommScope for Multi-Tenant Data Center
Deployment, TELECOMDRIVE
Apr 2019 DigiPlex Shortlisted for DCS Awards 2019, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
Global Hosted Private Branch Exchange (PBX) Market Outlook,
2019-2023 with Avaya, CenturyLink, Cisco Systems, NEC
Corporation, and Siemens Dominating - ResearchAndMarkets.com,
Business Wire
Apr 2019 MacTel, CompNow, take regional VMware awards, crn.com.au
Apr 2019 Dell, Nutanix slug it out in global hyperconverged market, crn.com.au
Apr 2019
IBM's cloud data management system goes down again...and
again...and again!, crn.com.au
Apr 2019
Legrand closes acquisition of Universal Electric Corporation,
DatacenterDynamics
Apr 2019
Centerbridge Partners to Acquire IBM’s Marketing Platform and
Commerce Software Offerings to Form Standalone Marketing and
Advertising Technology Company, Business Wire

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Data Center Infrastructure > News > Recent News
Apr 2019
Tottenham Hotspur partners HPE for a smarter stadium, Mobile
Europe
Apr 2019
CenturyLink Launching New Global Mesh Delivery Platform for
Bandwidth-Heavy Streamed Content, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
CINDE Announces: IBM's Security Operations Center expands in
Costa Rica and puts the country as a worldwide center of expertise,
PR Newswire
Apr 2019
phoenixNAP Announces Expansion with Three New Data Center
Locations, PRWeb
Apr 2019
CenturyLink Expands Cloud Ecosystem to Offer IBM Cloud Object
Storage for Customers, PR Newswire
Apr 2019 Multiple bidders eye potential purchase of Zayo, BizWest
Apr 2019
Switch Continues to Expand Strategic Sales Team with Addition of
Jeffery Bryce as Senior Vice President of Solutions Architecture, PR
Newswire
Apr 2019
Schneider Electric Extends Award-Winning Galaxy UPS Series with
the Galaxy VS for Critical Infrastructure and Edge Applications, PR
Newswire
Apr 2019
DigiPlex Launches Nordic Connect Platform To Produce A Data
Centre Ecosystem, Data Economy
Apr 2019
Producers Market to join with IBM Food Trust to advance food
traceability, iCrowdNewswire
Apr 2019
CoreSite Supports Hybrid Network Connections to Google Cloud,
Business Wire
Apr 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Declares a Regular Dividend, Business
Wire
Apr 2019 CenturyLink Taps Streamroot for P2P Assist, Light Reading
Apr 2019
Virtual Power Systems Names Power Industry Leader and CUI
Global CEO William J. Clough to its Board of Directors, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
Aviation Actuator System Market Emerging Trends And Top Key
Players To Watch- Eaton Industries, Cesa, Honeywell, Arkwin In
2018-2026, Red Newswire
Apr 2019
CenturyLink's Global Broadcast Fiber Network Provides Access to
Google Cloud Platform, PR Newswire
Apr 2019 Relined connects Afsluitdijk to network, Telecompaper
Apr 2019 CORRECTION: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, GlobeNewswire
Apr 2019
T, NTNX, CRCM - Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC Announces
Class Action, GlobeNewswire
Apr 2019 Colt Data Centre Services Acquires New Site in Osaka, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
IBM, Cisco and Accenture Listed as Visionary Leaders by
360Quadrants for Managed Services, PR Newswire
Apr 2019
Gazprom Neft, IBM Research Brazil enhance geological processing
with AI, World Oil
Apr 2019
Cloud firm planning global network expansion following £4m
investment, thebusinessdesk.com
Apr 2019
IBM artificial intelligence can predict with 95% accuracy which
workers are about to quit their jobs, CNBC

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Unicorns
Public Companies
Acquired Companies
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Investment Trends
Recent Investments
Mega Investments
Investment Trend
Markets
BlueBox
Taxonomy
News
Key News
Recent News
Company Stage
Seed Funded
Early Stage (Series A/B)
Late Stage (Series C+)
Acqui-hires
Deadpooled
Investors Acquirers
Unicorn Investors
Most Active VC &PE Investors
Portfolio of Top Investor
Most Active Acquirer
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Index of IPOs, Acquisitions, Unicorns, Soonicorns, Minicorns and Editor Picks in Data Center Infrastructure
Index of Top companies by Market (1/20)
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Data Center Infrastructure > Appendix > Index of Top companies by Market
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery
$85.3M)
Disaster recovery and fault tolerance
Stage: Acquired
Wellington Financial, Longworth Venture Partners,
Sierra Ventures and 10 Other Investors
InMage Systems (2002, San Jose, $38.3M)
Cloud-based disaster recovery and business
continuity
Stage: Acquired
Ridgewood Capital, Intel Capital, Hummer Winblad
Venture Partners and 2 Other Investors
Unitrends (1989, Burlington, $22.6M)
Integrated backup and disaster recovery solutions
Stage: Acquired
Insight Venture Partners, MMV Financial, The
Aurora Funds and 5 Other Investors
Disaster Recovery
Intronis (2003, Chelmsford, $20.9M)
Data protection solutions
Stage: Acquired
Greenspring Associates, OpenView
CodeGuard (2010, Atlanta, $2M)
Website monitoring and differential backup
CTW Venture Partners, Ellis Capital, Atlanta
Technology Angels
Stage: Acquired
Battery Ventures, Western Technology Investment,
Silicom Ventures
Cloud performance management and data analytics
solutions provider
Stage: Acquired
ONSET Ventures, Singtel Innov8, Claremont Creek

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Akorri (2005, Littleton, $53.7M)
Storage and virtualization management software
solutions in data center
Stage: Acquired
North Bridge, Matrix Partners, BlueStream
Cloud performance management and data center
infrastructure management solutions provider
Stage: Acquired
ONSET Ventures, Singtel Innov8, Claremont Creek
Ventures
RiT Technologies (1989, Tel Aviv, $24.4M)
IT infrastructure and data center management and
connectivity solutions
IPO Date - IPO Mcap -
- -
Xangati (2006, San Jose, $21.7M)
Data center environment analytics and
performance monitoring platform
Stage: Acquired
HighBar Partners, Citrix, Walden International and
1 Other Investors
SynapSense (2006, Folsom, $44.5M)
Wireless cooling and data center asset monitoring
solution.
Stage: Acquired
Crosslink Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures,
Nth Power and 6 Other Investors
Data center environment management software
Connecticut Innovations, Elm Street Ventures,
Alpine Meridian and 3 Other Investors
Virtual Power Systems (2012, Santa Clara,
$35.8M)
Software defined data center for power delivery
CUI Global, Exfinity Venture Partners, Clear

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Asetek (2000, Aalborg, $34M)
IPO Date Aug 2014 IPO Mcap -
OTCMKTS ASKTF
4energy (2005, Nottingham, $20M)
Provider of cooling products and software solutions
SET Ventures, British Gas, ETF Partners and 4 Other
Investors
Stage: Acquired
Sigma Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, Intel
ETF Partners, Inven Capital, VNG Group and 1 Other
Investors
Server Technology (1984, Reno)
Manufacturer of rackmount power distribution unit
(PDU)
Vertiv Co (2016, Columbus)
Provider of thermal and power management
service for data centres
Unicorn. Stage: Series A
Susquehanna Growth Equity
Capacity & Asset
Rackwise (2007, Folsom, $5.1M)
DCIM software suite
- -

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servers
Capital Group, Integral Capital Partners, The Aurora
Funds and 6 Other Investors
Univa (2004, Hoffman Estates, $41M)
Data center optimization and automation tools.
Core Capital Partners, Hatteras Funds, Warped
Wing and 6 Other Investors
Stage: Acquired
MK Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery
GigaIO (2012, Carlsbad, $5.6M)
Data center workload management and automation
solution
Editor's Pick. Stage: Series A
Cove Fund
Falcon Computing (2014, Santa Clara)
Acceleration solutions for compute intensive data
center applications
Editor's Pick. Stage: Funded
Connected technologies and solutions to manage
energy
IPO Date Mar 2012 IPO Mcap -
NSE SCHNEIDER
Provider of IAM and data center intelligence and
automation solution
IPO Date Jun 1997 IPO Mcap -
FRA BSSA
Stage: Acquired
Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners

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Colocation
services company
IPO Date Oct 2014 IPO Mcap $4.5B
NYSE ZAYO
CoreSite (2001, Denver, $420M)
IPO Date Sep 2010 IPO Mcap $734M
NYSE COR
Colocation
Stage: Acquired
Macquarie Group, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo and
3 Other Investors
Investors
Colocation
$300M)
Jordan, $180M)
Investors

182
Colocation
Six Degrees Group (2011, London, $106M)
Managed Data Services Provider
Stage: Acquired
Ardian, Penta Capital
Colocation
Verne Global (2007, Keflavik, $98M)
Data center and colocation services with data
center in Iceland
Minicorn. Stage: Series D
Wellcome Trust, General Catalyst Partners, Novator
Partners
Cologix (2010, Denver, $75.8M)
Data center colocation services and
interconnection
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities, Scotiabank and
5 Other Investors
Stage: Acquired
BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets, Barclays
Colocation
redIT (1996, Santa Fe, $72M)
Offers high capacity data centers.
Stage: Acquired
Cartesian Capital Group, Digital Realty, LIV Capital
TierPoint (2010, Liberty Lake, $49M)
Colocation services provider & Disaster recovery.
Stage: Acquired
TA Associates Management, WILsquare Capital,
Charterhouse Strategic Partners and 5 Other
Investors
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, CIT

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Colocation
Netmagic Solutions (1999, Mumbai, $39.9M)
Colocation and infrastructure services like data
center design and planning.
Stage: Acquired
Cisco, Nexus Venture Partners, Eight Roads
Mississauga, $39M)
Stage: Acquired
Western Technology Investment, MC Partners
data center colocation, cloud and IT services
Stage: Acquired
Columbia West Capital, MCG Capital, Signal Peak
Colocation
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, Solar Capital, Quilvest Private
Equity and 4 Other Investors
Stage: Acquired
Pamlico Capital, RH Capital Partners, Gateway
MCG Capital, Canopy Ventures, Zions Bank
Colocation
Teraco (2007, Johannesburg, $28M)
Vendor Neutral Data Center Infrastructure in South
Africa
Stage: Acquired
Absa bank, Barclays Africa Group, DBSA and 2
Other Investors
Onyx Group (1994, Stockton-on-tees, $25.7M)
Offers comprehensive Data Centre and IT
infrastructure services.
Stage: Acquired
Livingbridge
IPO Date Oct 2013 IPO Mcap $734M
NYSE QTS
3S Group (2002, Katowice, $24.6M)
DataCenter colocation and Service Provider
Enterprise Investors

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Colocation
Peak 10 (2000, Charlotte, $22M)
Offers cloud computing solutions, managed data
center services and private network services
Stage: Acquired
McCarthy Capital, RBC Capital Markets, Frontier
TasmaNet (2004, Hobart, $5.3M)
IT hosting infrastructure, and data centers company
Colocation
Stage: Acquired
Goldman Sachs, Bank of Montreal, National Bank
Financial Wealth Management and 6 Other
Investors
ESDS (2005, Nashik, $4M)
Cloud hosting & data centre solutions for
businesses
Minicorn. Stage: Series A
Canbank Venture Capital Fund, KfW Bankengruppe
Acropolis (2001, Paris, $3.2M)
Stage: Acquired
BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Isatis Capital
Colocation
Provider of green data centers
Demeter, Phitrust Impact Investors, Aviva and 1
Other Investors
Hydro66 (2014, Boden, $579k)
IPO Date Oct 2010 IPO Mcap $12.3M
CNSX SIX

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Colocation
Communications and 1 Other Investors
IPO Date Jan 2013 IPO Mcap $369M
NASDAQ CONE
Novacap, Riverside Partners, ATN and 1 Other
Investors
Colocation
BT Ireland (1990, Dublin)
Communications and IT services provider
Advent International
C Spire (1988, Ridgeland)
Mobile communication and fiber broadband
services provider
Editor's Pick. Stage: Bootstrapped Large
Colocation
IPO Date Dec 2010 IPO Mcap $78.8M
ASX NXT
recovery.
service provider

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Colocation
Colocation provider
Bridge Data Centres (2017, Singapore)
Provider of data centre services
EcoDataCenter (2017)
Colocation and data center service provider
Acacia
iSeek Communications (1998, Brisbane)
Data center, internet and managed cloud services
Colocation
Macquarie Telecom Group (2000, Sydney)
Provider of data centre(Tier III), cloud, cyber
security and telecom service
Netrality (2015, New York City)
Colocation provider
Silver Lake, VMware, Credit Suisse and 1 Other
Investors
Colocation, managed hosting and
telecommunication
IPO Date Sep 1999 IPO Mcap $26.2M
ASX MAQ
Colocation
Data center and telecommunication service
provider
IPO Date Mar 2015 IPO Mcap $33.1M
ASX OTW
solution
Stage: Acquired
- -
KDDI (1984, Tokyo)
IPO Date Sep 1993 IPO Mcap -
TYO 9433

187
Colocation
Washington D.C.)
Stage: Acquired
- -
Stage: Acquired
Riverwood Capital
Stage: Acquired
Colocation
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Bregal Sagemount
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Colocation
solutions
Stage: Acquired
Apex Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners,
Gabriel Venture Partners and 5 Other Investors
Stage: Acquired
Telecommunications service to residential and
business customers, and operators
BME MAS
Telecommunication, logistics and data center
services
SGX K11

188
Colocation
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities, SunTrust
Robinson Humphrey and 7 Other Investors
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Node4 (2004, Derby)
Data center and colocation solutions
Stage: Acquired
Telecom operator and data centers provider in
Czech Republic
Stage: Acquired
Colocation
Stage: Acquired
Clairvest, Celerity Partners, Maxam Capital
Stage: Acquired
Sverica Capital Management
Pulsant (1998, Reading, $0)
networks
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Bank of America, Comerica
Colocation
IPO Date Oct 2017 IPO Mcap $4.2B
NYSE SWCH
America
Stage: Acquired
RBC Capital Markets, GE Corporate Lending, Spring
Lake Equity Partners and 2 Other Investors
Stage: Acquired
Oak Hill Capital Partners, 3i Group
Stage: Acquired
Barclays, HSBC Group, Lloyds Bank and 1 Other
Investors

189
Colocation
High Speed Internet, Digital Phone and Web Hosting
Services
CVE USS
IPO Date Oct 1999 IPO Mcap -
ASX VOC
(2012, London)
Stage: Acquired
Pleasanton, $48M)
Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Emerson
Collective, Keppel and 2 Other Investors
Flexenclosure (1989, Stockholm, $34.6M)
Prefabricated energy efficient data centre buildings
Stage: Acquired
European Investment Bank, IFC, Industrifonden and
2 Other Investors
centers
Minicorn. Stage: Seed
NEXION Networks (2017, Perth)
Provider of modular data center
Platina Systems (2014, Santa Clara)
Networking solutions for data center providers
Editor's Pick. Stage: Funded
Dot Capital, WI Harper Group
mobile networks
Berkshire Partners, Crown Castle, AVX Partners

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Leasing and 4 Other Investors
Datacom (1965, Auckland)
Data centre service provider
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Finance Wales
Equipment
Servers
Francisco, $67M)
Stage: Acquired
Meritech Capital Partners, Accel Partners, Advent
Newisys - A Division of Sanmina
Corporation (2000, San Jose, $55M)
Designs and manufactures server and storage
solutions for data centers
Stage: Acquired
Fidelity Ventures, Austin Ventures, New Enterprise
Associates and 1 Other Investors
Platform Solutions (1999, Sunnyvale, $37M)
Mainframe computers compatible with data center
environments
Stage: Acquired
Intel Capital, InterWest Partners, Investcorp and 4
Other Investors

191
Equipment
Servers
Silicon Graphics International Corp (1999,
Milpitas, $21M)
High Performance Computing, and data
management.
IPO Date Jun 2005 IPO Mcap $240M
NASDAQ RACK
company
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Merrill
Lynch, Barclays and 5 Other Investors
IBM (1911, Armonk)
IPO Date Jan 1970 IPO Mcap -
NYSE IBM
Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (1939, Palo
Alto)
IPO Date Oct 2015 IPO Mcap -
NYSE HPE
Inspur (2000, Fremont)
Manufacturer of products for data center and cloud
computing solution
Manufacturer of products for storage, data
processing or computation needs
IPO Date Jun 2018 IPO Mcap $137M
EPA 2CRSI
Acer (1987, Taipei)
TPE 2353
Peripherals
Department of Energy, Brown Gibbons Lang
IPO Date Mar 2007 IPO Mcap $229M
NASDAQ SMCI
Valrack (2000, Mumbai)
Manufacturer of equipments for
telecommunications, networking, computing, data
centers

192
Equipment
Peripherals
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (1979,
Sunnyvale)
Cloud computing and connectivity products for
data centers
Stage: Acquired
Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, VentureTech
Alliance
- -
Stage: Acquired
MUFG Union Bank, Abenex, Equistone Partners
Europe
Peripherals
Designs and manufactures standard and customized
racks
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Stage: Acquired
Altor Equity Partners, Sierra Ventures
Etasis Electronics Corporation (1996,
Taipei)
- -
Stage: Acquired
Peripherals
IPO Date Dec 2010 IPO Mcap -
NASDAQ OSS
IPO Date Jun 2000 IPO Mcap $84.9M
NASDAQ QBAK

193
Equipment
IPO Date Sep 2016 IPO Mcap $2.2B
NASDAQ NTNX
Charles River Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners,
Accel Partners and 8 Other Investors
Soonicorn. Stage: Series G
S3 Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mesirow Financial
provider
Soonicorn. Stage: Series E
Digital, INCJ, NTT Docomo Ventures and 9 Other
Investors
Soonicorn. Stage: Series F
Allos Ventures, Lenovo, ABS Capital and 12 Other
Investors
applications
GV, Thomvest Ventures, Northgate Capital and 5
Other Investors
Connectivity
Integra Telecom (1996, Vancouver, $617M)
Provides facilities-based communications and
network services
Stage: Acquired
Goldman Sachs, Tennenbaum Capital Partners,
Farallon Capital Management and 3 Other Investors
TeleSoft Partners, Wall Street Technology Partners,
DuPont Capital Management and 13 Other
Investors
CentrePath (2000, Waltham, $179M)
Data center networking solutions
Stage: Acquired
Greylock Partners, Pilot House Ventures, Bain
Capital Ventures and 2 Other Investors

194
Connectivity
MC Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley
$42.8M)
Fiber Infrastructure Management and testing
Automation
S-Group Capital Management, Novak Biddle
Venture Partners, Portview Communications
Kaiam (2009, Newark, $13M)
Optical communication solutions for data centers
TriplePoint Capital, U.S Venture Partners, DBL
AKADO (1992, Moscow)
Business communication, TV, and data center
services provider
services provider
provider
Itau BBA
Acem Telecom (2006, Porto Alegre)
Business internet connectivity services provider
ADVA Optical Networking (1994,
Martinsried)
Network equipment for data, storage, voice and
video services
FRA ADV
solutions provider
Stage: Acquired
Naxicap Partners
provider
Stage: Acquired
Nedbank, Investec, DBSA and 2 Other Investors
Stage: Acquired

195
Connectivity
Colt (1992, London)
Stage: Acquired
Fiber-optic cable accessories and passive
equipment provider
- -
Network infrastructure connectivity and data
center services provider
Stage: Acquired
Australia Singapore Cable
centers.
Stage: Acquired
Bessemer Venture Partners
Stage: Acquired
TA Associates Management, Karmel Capital
Stage: Acquired
Pamlico Capital
Listing
Listing
WiredRE (2011, Cincinnati)
Colocation Data Center portal to apply for leasing
data centers

196
SDDC
SDDC
Scalent (2002, Palo Alto, $27M)
Virtualization software
Stage: Acquired
JK&B Capital, Credit Suisse, Pequot Capital and 1
Other Investors
Arkin (2013, Santa Clara, $22M)
IT operations monitoring for data centers
Stage: Acquired
Nexus Venture Partners, KAAJ Ventures, Sood
Pensa (2014, Mountain View, $4M)
Platform to build virtual data centers
Editor's Pick. Stage: Series A
March Capital Partners, The Fabric
Migration
Migration
Stage: Acquired
Insight Venture Partners, Covington Capital
Corporation

Funded Deadpooled Companies
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Data Center Infrastructure > Appendix > Funded Deadpooled Companies
Funding Company Location
$74.9M NextIO Austin
$48M Smooth-Stone Austin
$45.4M Fabric7 Systems Mountain View
$42.1M Liquid Computing Ottawa
$30.2M Power Assure Santa Clara
$26.4M Qlusters Netanya
$12.6M MosaixSoft Los Altos
$2.6M Midfin Systems Redmond
$2.1M FortaTrust Doral
$1.2M NextCloud Sacramento
$300k Scalable Informatics Plymouth
$90k Olocity Golden
$50k Intigry.IO Los Angeles
$30k Clear Creek
Networks
Boulder
Atlas Cloud Vancouver
Exodus
Communications
Sunnyvale
CloubrAIn San Francisco
Tulip Telecom Delhi
Index of Deadpooled companies in Data Center Infrastructure
1. Excludes all details for Chinese companies. 2. View all 33 Deadpooled companies on Tracxn Platform

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Manager - Sector Specialist
Budida Nanda Chaitanya
Sector Specialist
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