NetApp Buys Boston/Israeli Startup Onaro For $120 Million

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Roi Carthy is the Managing Partner at Initial Capital. Previously, Roi has worked at companies such as Soluto, Zend Technologies and 888.com. Roi has been covering the Israeli startup scene for TechCrunch since 2007. Born in Israel, Roi has spent many years abroad living in both the US (Boston, Olivet, DC) and in Europe (Budapest, Zurich). Today, Roi works... → Learn More

onaro.pngOnly three days into 2008 and we’ve already seen two monster exits in Israel. Yesterday it was XIV with a $350M exit on a $3M investment. Today, Israeli financial media is reporting (here, in Hebrew) that Network Appliance purchased Onaro for $120M (although, Onaro’s official headquarters are in Boston).

Onaro develops storage-management software that allows Storage Area Network (SAN) to “be mapped, predictively tested, and monitored.” The company was founded in 2002 and in 2005 was courted by Cisco. NetApp is a leader in network-attached storage (NAS) devices. This acquisition should help it strengthen its SAN offerings.

This is a great exit for investors Cedar Ventures and Newbury Ventures which pumped a total of $10M into the company.

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