JumpStartUp to co-invest in Aarohi Communications

JumpStartUp Venture Fund has announced its investment in Aarohi Communications, Inc, a San Jose startup creating storage networking semiconductor solutions. Aarohi has secured $ 15 million in its first-round financing led by top tier Silicon Valley investors TeleSoft Partners and Broadview Venture Partners with JumpStartUp championing the India investment angle. The funding will be used to build a family of Storage Processing Engine products to enable the next generation of storage networking. Aarohi also announced the launch of its Co-design center at Bangalore, which will be responsible for software development and systems design.

The team at Aarohi is led by Ameesh Divatia (CEO), formerly the chief product strategist of optical products at Cisco and founder and CTO of Pipelinks (acquired by Cisco). The rest of the management team comprises technologists from companies like HP, IBM, Intel, LSI, Sun, VLSI/Philips, Wind River and

Wipro.

Shanti Subbaraman, Founder, Director SW Engg and MD, Aarohi Communications, said, "India is a major source of engineering talent for Aarohi. We aim to make our co-design center the leading center for developing products for storage networking. We are looking at hiring 30 engineers for our immediate requirements", she added.

According to JumpStartUp's Sanjay Anandaram, "Aarohi will prove that quality teams across the Silicon Valleys of US and India can attract quality capital to co-develop valuable and successful leading edge technologies. JumpStartUp is very excited to be an early part of this

endeavor".

Aarohi Communications is a front-runner in the emerging storage networking opportunity and aims at enabling the next generation of SAN (Storage Area Networks) switch/ director, appliance, gateway, storage array, and NAS (Network Attached Storage) products. By pioneering Application Aware Storage Networking, Aarohi Communications aims to increase storage intelligence in the network. This will enable storage resource management and enhance network performance.

Aarohi Communications' high performance feature-rich products will improve scalability, integration, system cost, and time-to-market.