Nimrod Gindi

The Operating System for the Thinking Machine. VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, natively unifying and orchestrating storage, database, and compute to unleash the true power of agentic computing and data-intensive applications.​

Pliops accelerates and amplifies the performance and scalability of global GenAI infrastructure, driving unparalleled efficiency and innovation. Pliops was founded in 2017 by storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems, and XtremIO. Pliops is pioneering a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers to access data up to 50 times faster with one-tenth of the computational load and power consumption. Its technology consolidates multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on a groundbreaking approach. Pliops’ solution addresses the scalability challenges posed by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data demands of AI and ML applications.

CNEX is a privately held company founded in 2013 and funded by venture capital and strategic investments from Fortune 500 companies in storage and networking. CNEX delivers innovative storage semiconductor and software solutions, partnering with solid-state storage manufacturers, data center and systems customers to develop revolutionary NVMe and Open-Channel SSD controller ASICs that deliver high-performance with low and predictable latency, scalability and flexibility for software-defined-storage. CNEX controller products are key to accelerating the capabilities of big data computing and analytics for the next generation of cloud, hyperscale and enterprise data centers.

Excelero enables customers to build distributed, high-performance Server SAN with standard hardware for applications at any scale. NVMesh is a truly converged Software-Defined Block Storage solution designed to meet storage requirements for applications of any scale, without compromise.  The solution features an intelligent management layer that abstracts underlying hardware with CPU offload, creates logical volumes with redundancy, and provides centralized management and monitoring. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage and the cost savings of standard hardware. The solution has been deployed for Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and simulation visualization.

We help enterprises, neoclouds, and exascale AI innovators accelerate real-world performance, deploy anywhere without compromise, and grow stronger with scale. NeuralMesh™ by WEKA® is the world’s only storage system purpose-built for AI—built on a high-performance, containerized microservices architecture that eliminates bottlenecks, maximizes infrastructure efficiency, and enables teams to build boldly into the future.

Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.

The Operating System for the Thinking Machine. VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, natively unifying and orchestrating storage, database, and compute to unleash the true power of agentic computing and data-intensive applications.​

We invest in unicorns that are transforming markets, lives, and the world. Scale-Up Unicorn Fund invests in U.S. Tech Unicorns. We select companies that have proven their value, and continue their hyper-growth by bringing tremendous benefits to customers while creating and transforming large markets.

Pliops accelerates and amplifies the performance and scalability of global GenAI infrastructure, driving unparalleled efficiency and innovation. Pliops was founded in 2017 by storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems, and XtremIO. Pliops is pioneering a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers to access data up to 50 times faster with one-tenth of the computational load and power consumption. Its technology consolidates multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on a groundbreaking approach. Pliops’ solution addresses the scalability challenges posed by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data demands of AI and ML applications.

CNEX is a privately held company founded in 2013 and funded by venture capital and strategic investments from Fortune 500 companies in storage and networking. CNEX delivers innovative storage semiconductor and software solutions, partnering with solid-state storage manufacturers, data center and systems customers to develop revolutionary NVMe and Open-Channel SSD controller ASICs that deliver high-performance with low and predictable latency, scalability and flexibility for software-defined-storage. CNEX controller products are key to accelerating the capabilities of big data computing and analytics for the next generation of cloud, hyperscale and enterprise data centers.