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Krishna Yadappanavar

Founder

Founder at Kloudfuse

Los Altos, California, United States

FoundedKloudfuse

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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Kloudfuse's investors · 2

AspenwoodSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2020Blumberg CapitalMiami · $500K – $5M checks · since 2020

Co-founders at Kloudfuse

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PANKAJ THAKKARDirector
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Pankaj ThakkarFounder
AHAshish Hanwadikar
Ashish HanwadikarFounder

Experience

  1. StealthStealthcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. StartupsInvestor and Advisorcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  3. BITSAAMembercurrent2004 — present
  4. KloudfuseFounder & CEO2020 — 2025Cupertino, California, United States
  5. SpringpathCo-founder, Architect2012 — 2019sunnyvale, CA
  6. VMwareStaff Engineer2004 — 2012Palo Alto, CA
  7. EMCSenior Engineer2003 — 2004Greater New York City Area
  8. Commvault SystemsArchitect Unix solutions2002 — 2003Long Branch, NJ
  9. 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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Shared employers

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