Western Digital Capital’s portfolio consists of investments in the following categories:
Developer of a programming language designed to track and optimize digital transactions. The company's programming language is based on proofs of time and storage and harnesses cheap and abundant unused storage space on hard drives to verify the blockchain, enabling miners and traditional financial institutions to purchase and deploy a cryptocurrency.
Developer of a data storage device designed to store data in DNA formats.
WekaIO helps companies manage, scale and futureproof their data center so they can solve real problems that impact the world. WekaIO Matrix™, the world’s fastest shared parallel file system and WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering simplicity, scale, and the best performance density per U, for a fraction of the cost. In the cloud or on-premises, WekaIO’s NVMe-native high-performance software-defined storage solution removes the barriers between the data and the compute layer, thus accelerating artificial intelligence, machine learning, genomics, research, and analytics workloads.
Provider of cloud-based storage services intended to serve enterprises.
Ethernovia is virtualizing vehicle communication to enable the software defined vehicle.
Niron’s Clean Earth Magnet technology will enable mass production of high performance permanent magnets based entirely on low-cost, sustainable input materials.
Kinara has an ultra low power processor that is built from the ground up to run Deep Learning and other computer vision algorithms. Offering 100% programmability, Kinara's processor can support all computer vision CNNs. They've built a full stack of complementary software that enable low power and real time processing.
Komprise, an industry-leader in intelligent data management across clouds, empowers businesses to efficiently manage today’s massive scale of data growth while unlocking its value. The Komprise mission is to radically simplify data management through intelligent automation. Komprise partners include IBM, Western Digital, NetApp, EMC, and several others. Komprise is used by enterprises to intelligently manage data at scale.
Pliops is creating a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers access data up to 50X faster with 1/10th the power consumption and computational load. This is done by collapsing multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on its inventive technology. Pliops' solution solves the scalability challenges raised by data explosion and the increasing requirements of AI and ML applications.
Codasip delivers leading-edge processor IP and high-level design tools that provide ASIC designers with all the advantages of the RISC-V open-standard ISA, along with the unique ability to automatically optimize the processor IP. As a founding member of the RISC-V Foundation and a long-term supplier of LLVM and GNU-based processor solutions, Codasip is committed to open standards for embedded processors.
NGD Systems is a developer of an intelligent storage platform designed to create a new category of storage devices that bring computation to data. The company's computational storage solutions use SSD storage solutions via its In-Situ Processing and allows to utilize core platforms in storage, HPC, server, rack and power solutions that is required for an optimal SW and HW ecosystem, enabling customers to create, manage and execute applications while satisfying the growth of edge, datacenters and AI.
A sampling of Western Digital Capital’s successful exits follows below: