AVI Networks
Founders
Amit Pandey - CEO
Murali Basavaiah - Co-Founder & VP of Engineering
Ranga Rajagopalan - Co-Founder & CTO
Founded
2012
Stage
Series A
Invested
2012
Status
Acquired by VMware
Lightspeed Team
Arif Janmohamed - Partner
Barry Eggers - Co-Founder
Guru Chahal - Partner

Avi Networks delivers Multi-Cloud Application Services including a Software Load Balancer, Intelligent Web Application Firewall (iWAF) and Universal Service Mesh. Customers deploy Avi on bare metal servers, VMs and containers across on-premises data centers, private clouds such as VMware or OpenStack, public clouds such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and microservices environments orchestrated by Kubernetes / Istio. The Avi Vantage Platform delivers applications consistently across clouds to ensure a fast, scalable, and secure application experience. Avi customers including Adobe, Deutsche Bank, and Cisco (and 25% of Fortune 50) enjoy 90% faster provisioning and 50% lower TCO.

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