Series F closed April 2026, led by Drive Capital.[10][1][2][4]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Drive Capital, Access Industries, NVIDIA, Fidelity Management & Research Company, NEA, Claltech, Norwest, Tiger Global, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Dell Technologies Capital, BOND, Next47, Greenfield Partners, 83North.[10][1][3][5]

Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO[14][3][12][13][19][6][16][17]

Shachar Fienblit, Co-founder, leads development and operations in Israel[14][3][12][13][19]

Avi Goren, Co-founder and Chief Scientist[14][3][12][13][19][6][16][17]

Alon Horev, Co-founder and CTO[14][3][12][13][19][6][16][17]

Amy Shapero, Chief Financial Officer (hired 2024)[14][13][12][6][16][17][19]

Jeff Denworth, Co-founder[14][13][12][6][16][17][19]

Sagi Grimberg, VP of Architecture[14][13][12][6][16][17][19]

Roman Vainbrand, Head of VastDB[14][13][12][6][16][17][19]

Pure Storage (Everpure) · purestorage.com · Same buyer and same budget line: enterprise and AI infrastructure teams choosing an all-flash data platform, and the comparison is explicit in coverage of VAST's valuation against Everpure's market cap and revenue.[7]

NetApp · netapp.com · Same buyer and same job to be done: enterprise storage platform selection, cited alongside Everpure as the incumbent comparison set for VAST's valuation.[7]

Cloudera · cloudera.com · Overlapping buyer and system of record: Cloudera and VAST jointly sell an AI factory architecture that unifies structured, unstructured, and vector data, so buyers weigh the two layers together.[11][15]

WEKA · weka.io · Same buyer and same job to be done: high-performance storage feeding GPU clusters, named as a competitor in VDURA's market list alongside VAST Data.[9]

DDN · ddn.com · Same buyer and same workflow: large-scale AI and supercomputing storage, named as a competitor in VDURA's market list alongside VAST Data.[9]

VDURA · vdura.com · similar, not yet paired · Same buyer and same workflow: GPU-accelerated AI and HPC storage, and VDURA's own competitor list names VAST Data directly.[9]

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