Top 7 Data Center Unicorns in 2024

Updated:

January 22, 2024

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Have you ever wondered which private companies in the Data Center industry have the highest valuations?

You’re not alone.

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There are lots of unicorn companies in this space, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all.

We've decided to take a deep dive and put together a list containing 7 Data Center unicorn startups, from highest to lowest valuation.

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1) Global Switch

Global Switch is a multi-tenant colocation and cloud hosting provider with a large scale network of carrier and cloud neutral data centres.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $11.10B (December 2016)

  • Country: United Kingdom

  • State: England

  • City: London

  • Started in: 1998

  • Founders: Andy Ruhan

  • Number of employees: 250-500

  • Funding: $6,254.75M

  • Funding rounds: 3

  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

2) Cohesity

Cohesity is a data platform to deliver hyperconverged secondary storage technology purpose-built for backup, test/dev, file services and analytics.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $3.70B (June 2018)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Jose

  • Started in: 2013

  • Founders: Mohit Aron

  • Number of employees: 1,000-5,000

  • Funding: $692.00M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 25

You can find their website here.

3) Illumio

Adaptive segmentation combines multiple signature-based and behavioral analysis to detect, prevent, and automatically respond to cyber attacks.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $2.75B (April 2015)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: Sunnyvale

  • Started in: 2013

  • Founders: Andrew Rubin, PJ Kirner

  • Number of employees: 250-500

  • Funding: $525.00M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 24

You can find their website here.

4) Jaguar Microsystems

Jaguar Microsystems is a technology company that provides data centre cloud computing and data processing solutions.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.34B (June 2022)

  • Country: China

  • State: Guangdong

  • City: Shenzhen

  • Started in: 2020

  • Founders: Sunny Siu

  • Number of employees: 251-500

  • Funding rounds: 2

  • Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

5) OVH

OVH offers industry-leading web, dedicated server, and cloud hosting solutions. Their commitment to excellence has earned them a five-star rating from CNET and consistently high rankings from MSPmentor, the web hosting industry’s leading magazine.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.10B (August 2016)

  • Country: France

  • City: Roubaix

  • Started in: 1999

  • Founders: Octave Klaba

  • Number of employees: 1,000-5,000

  • Funding: $1,243.49M

  • Funding rounds: 2

  • Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

6) Minio

MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (January 2022)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: Palo Alto

  • Started in: 2014

  • Founders: Anand Babu Periasamy, Frederick Kautz, Garima Kapoor, Harshavardhana .

  • Number of employees: 10-50

  • Funding: $126.30M

  • Funding rounds: 3

  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

7) BitFury

Bitfury is a world-leading full-service blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (November 2018)

  • Country: Netherlands

  • City: Amsterdam

  • Started in: 2011

  • Founders: Valery Nebesny, Valery Vavilov

  • Number of employees: 500-1,000

  • Funding: $170.00M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 24

You can find their website here.