USA – Prosimo, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based Application Experience Infrastructure company, raised $25m in seed and Series A funding.
The round was co-led by General Catalyst and WRVI Capital with participation from Nepenthe Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Dr. Steve Herrod, managing director at General Catalyst, and Lip-Bu Tan, managing partner at WRVI Capital, joined Prosimo’s board.Co-founded by Ramesh Prabagaran (CEO) and Nehal Bhau (CTO), who were part of the founding team at Viptela and were subsequently responsible for product and engineering respectively for the SD-WAN business at Cisco, Co-founders Linus Aranha and Pradeep Aragonda, who bring deep technical and product expertise for the modern cloud stack, Prosimo provides an Application eXperience Infrastructure platform (AXI) which enables a multi-cloud infrastructure strategy to deliver secure, and cost-optimized apps. Through a vertically integrated stack, Prosimo handles both user-to-app and app-to-app requirements, preventing multiple fragmented initiatives in the cloud. One infrastructure stack handles everything — provides secure access, app experience, real-time insights, and quantified recommendations for multi-cloud. The platform provides the solution for multi-cloud networking, Zero Trust with Identity Aware Proxy, app micro-segmentation, access to lift-and-shift VMware on AWS, Azure or GCP, app-infrastructure modernization for Kubernetes and service mesh apps, and more.Customers include Fortune 500 companies, tier-1 service providers, and global partners.06/04/2021
