Pliant Technology
Founders
Richard Wilmer - CEO & Co-Founder
Aaron Olbrich - Co-Founder
Mike Chenery - Co-Founder
Doug Prins - Co-Founder
Amyl Ahola - Co-Founder
Founded
2006
Stage
Series A
Invested
2007
Status
Acquired by SanDisk
Lightspeed Team
Barry Eggers - Co-Founder
John Vrionis - Leaders At Scale

Pliant Technology pioneered the introduction of high performance SSDs into mission critical data center environments through the development of the industry’s first SAS controller purpose-built for use with leading edge SLC and MLC NAND Flash.

The company was acquired by SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) in May 2011.

John Vrionis
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