Rubrik is one of the successful startups from Silicon Valley set up by Indian entrepreneurs. Last year the firm successfully raised about 261 million dollars from leading firms like lightspeed ventures. As well, Khosla Ventures, Greylock Partners, and IVP are investors in Rubrik. The mastermind behinds founding the company are Bipul Sinha, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Arvind Jain, and Soham Mazumdar. In 2015, they established Rubrik, which became a 1.3 billion dollar company shortly. However, just in four years, it raised 261 million dollars. Presently, it’s total valuation is 3.3 billion dollars with several records on its name.
About Rubrik
It is the business venture of Bipul Sinha along with other masterminds that get started in 2015. Basically, known as a Cloud data management firm based in the U.S.A. The offices of the company are stated at more than five locations across the continents. Including, California, India, England, Ireland, etc.
The backstory of foundation
Bipul Sinha, co-founder of Rubrik was previously working at Oracle. He was an IIT graduate, tech lover, and a person made for engineering. But it is said that there are no limits for innovation and passion. Similarly, despite being a highly paid employee, Bipul wasn’t satisfied. Sinha wanted to do more in this field, as a result, he became the business partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
During this period, Bipul realized many organizations face difficulties in managing data protection, especially in the hybrid cloud. This opportunity could be game-changing for setting new business, which already has around a 50 billion dollar market. However, he was in contact with other experts who were working at the top level in different organizations.
They all decide to take action on this. In the end, the company was shaped by experienced persons in the IT industry.
Towards setting standards for data management
Initially, they set up the office of Rubrik at the business space of Lightspeed. Fortunately, the founders could recruit the team of top engineers from top firms. Like Apple, Facebook, and Google. The new approach of Rubrik towards cloud data management quickly resonated in the market. As well, several firms preferred Rubrik which raised the standard of data management.
The rise of Rubrik
It is an ultimate platform for Multi-Cloud Data Control. In fact, Rubrik is known as a powerful platform that follows it’s policies strictly to deliver the best service to clients. Rubrik along with other Indian businesses in Silicon Valley are seen as powerful to create the Unicorn club of Indians in the Bay Area. The company’s growth is extraordinary in very little time.
However, it used acquisition strategy as well as attract the investors to explore the business all over the world. Two years ago, it acquired cloud data management company known as Datos. io to develop the existing platform into the cloud management field.
Founders in Limelight
As said earlier, Rubrik is the outcome of the idea of well experienced and expert personalities in the Information technology field. Almost all of them served in top IT industries. However, this experience turned out as the input for developing Rubrik. Let’s see the background of founders and persons behind Rubrik’s success.
Bipul Sinha- Rubrik CEO and Founder
He previously worked as a VC investor that offered him success in identifying market opportunities. While he wanted to go beyond limits and then finding the expert team, helped him to chase those opportunities. In the end, he set up various businesses and Rubrik was one of them. Presently, he is serving as CEO of Rubrik. However, he has experienced more than 18 years to set up the Millennial business.
Arvind Nithrakashyap
He is the present CTO of Rubrik and shared a great contribution to the foundation of Rubrik. His 16+ years of experience in handling the databases and distributed systems helped to decide a new approach for the Rubrik platform. Apart from that, he served at Oracle and assist in founding the Exadata storage platform.
Arvind Jain
He is one of the founding members of Rubrik that currently leads as VP of Engineering. Earlier, he was the employee of Google for about ten years. In fact, he served the management and leading roles at Google. As well, he shared a contribution to started MapMaker, Google Fiber, and Youtube.
Soham Mazumdar
One more expert in the founding team of Rubrik, Mr. Soham Mazumdar. He is known for developing Teragoogle, which replicates the search infrastructure of Google. For this, he honored with the Google Founder’s Award.
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