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Javier SolterounlockedKrishna: together at VMware (2009–2012)
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Krishna: together at Kloudfuse
×2Krishna: together at EMC
About
Krishna Yadappanavar is co-founder and CEO of Kloudfuse. He previously co-founded Storvisor/SpringPath, an enterprise data platform company in the hyper-converged infrastructure category, which raised $94M from venture investors, launched in 2015, and was acquired by Cisco for $320M in 2017. He co-authored VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), holds more than 20 patents in data, virtualization, and storage technologies, and has held technical and team-building roles at companies including Veritas, Commvault, EMC, VMware, and Cisco.
Founder at Kloudfuse
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Pankaj ThakkarFounder
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Ashish HanwadikarFounder
Experience
- StealthStealthcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- StartupsInvestor and Advisorcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- BITSAAMembercurrent2004 — present
- KloudfuseFounder & CEO2020 — 2025Cupertino, California, United States
- SpringpathCo-founder, Architect2012 — 2019sunnyvale, CA
- VMwareStaff Engineer2004 — 2012Palo Alto, CA
- EMCSenior Engineer2003 — 2004Greater New York City Area
- Commvault SystemsArchitect Unix solutions2002 — 2003Long Branch, NJ
- VeritasLead Engineer2000 — 2002Mountain View, CA
Skills & more
Mentoring1Entrepreneurship1Layer2Distributed Systems99Storage99File Systems84Debugging9Selector Analytics3
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Krishna Yadappanavar?
- Krishna Yadappanavar is co-founder and CEO of Kloudfuse. He previously co-founded Storvisor/SpringPath, an enterprise data platform company in the hyper-converged infrastructure category, which raised $94M from venture investors, launched in 2015, and was acquired by Cisco for $320M in 2017. He co-authored VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), holds more than 20 patents in data, virtualization, and storage technologies, and has held technical and team-building roles at companies including Veritas, Commvault, EMC, VMware, and Cisco.
- Where does Krishna Yadappanavar work?
- Krishna Yadappanavar is Founder of Kloudfuse.
- What companies did Krishna Yadappanavar found?
- Krishna Yadappanavar founded Kloudfuse.
- Where did Krishna Yadappanavar go to school?
- Krishna Yadappanavar studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BE(Hons), Computer Science); Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) (Visiting Research Associate for School of Mathematics); Stanford University (Computer Science).
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