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Top 7 Data Center Unicorn Companies in 2023

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Have you ever wondered which private companies in the Data Center industry have the highest valuations?

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There are lots of unicorn companies in this space, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all.

We've decided to take a deep dive and put together a list containing 7 Data Center unicorn startups, from highest to lowest valuation.

7 Data Center Unicorns Companies

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1) Global Switch

Global Switch

Global Switch is a multi-tenant colocation and cloud hosting provider with a large scale network of carrier and cloud neutral data centres.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $11.10B (December 2016)
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • State: England
  • City: London
  • Started in: 1998
  • Founders: Andy Ruhan
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $6,254.75M
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

2) Cohesity

Cohesity

Cohesity is a data platform to deliver hyperconverged secondary storage technology purpose-built for backup, test/dev, file services and analytics.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $3.70B (June 2018)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Jose
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Mohit Aron
  • Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
  • Funding: $692.00M
  • Funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 25

You can find their website here.

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3) Illumio

Illumio

Adaptive segmentation combines multiple signature-based and behavioral analysis to detect, prevent, and automatically respond to cyber attacks.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $2.75B (April 2015)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: Sunnyvale
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Andrew Rubin, PJ Kirner
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $525.00M
  • Funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 24

You can find their website here.

4) Jaguar Microsystems

Jaguar Microsystems

Jaguar Microsystems is a technology company that provides data centre cloud computing and data processing solutions.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.34B (June 2022)
  • Country: China
  • State: Guangdong
  • City: Shenzhen
  • Started in: 2020
  • Founders: Sunny Siu
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

5) OVH

OVH

OVH offers industry-leading web, dedicated server, and cloud hosting solutions. Their commitment to excellence has earned them a five-star rating from CNET and consistently high rankings from MSPmentor, the web hosting industry’s leading magazine.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.10B (August 2016)
  • Country: France
  • City: Roubaix
  • Started in: 1999
  • Founders: Octave Klaba
  • Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
  • Funding: $1,243.49M
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

6) Minio

Minio

MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (January 2022)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: Palo Alto
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Anand Babu Periasamy, Frederick Kautz, Garima Kapoor, Harshavardhana .
  • Number of employees: 10-50
  • Funding: $126.30M
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

7) BitFury

BitFury

Bitfury is a world-leading full-service blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (November 2018)
  • Country: Netherlands
  • City: Amsterdam
  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Valery Nebesny, Valery Vavilov
  • Number of employees: 500-1,000
  • Funding: $170.00M
  • Funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 24

You can find their website here.

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