Three months after its most up-to-date financing spherical, traders are urgent Israeli cloud backup firm Eon to embark on one other financing spherical that might raise the corporate’s valuation to $2.5 billion, sources have knowledgeable “Globes.”
Over the previous yr, the beforehand unknown Tel Aviv-based firm grew to become a sensation amongst Israeli tech traders by rising with distinctive pace and seeing its valuation climb from $215 million to $1.4 billion because it raised $200 million, in response to PitchBook, in three financing rounds together with $70 million on the finish of November 2024. The startup, which was based by a workforce of former AWS workers led by CEO Ofir Ehrlich, has developed a cloud information backup service and has efficiently attracted many purchasers from Amazon and raised the brand new firm’s income at a price the has justified its quickly rising valuation.
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Its earlier traders together with Sequoia Capital, Eight Roads, Vine Ventures and serial investor Tilli Kalisky have been later joined by former NBA basketball star Omri Casspi, Lightspeed Ventures, Greenoaks, and Meron Capital. The latest financing spherical in November 2024 was led by Bond Capital, a San Francisco-based enterprise capital fund, which was based by Jay Simons, the previous president of software program large Atlassian, and has $3 billion underneath administration.
Aided by ransomware assaults
The corporate isn’t at the moment elevating cash, however sources across the firm should not ruling out a financing spherical later this yr.
Eon has grown as a result of large improve in ransomware assaults sabotage the massive quantity of knowledge corporations retailer of their many databases and belongings. Massive corporations retailer most of their information in cloud providers resembling AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, with a number of the data scattered amongst exterior functions and finish gadgets. Eon can again up all this organizational data with each change that’s made, in order that within the occasion of an assault, the knowledge might be absolutely restored. – a service that cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft do not know the best way to provide making Eon’s service extremely popular over the previous yr. The corporate has 55 workers and plans to double its dimension by the top of the yr.
No touch upon this report has been forthcoming from Eon.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on March 4, 2025.
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