The oversubscribed round, which brings the total capital raised to $49 million, was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and included full participation by existing investors General Catalyst and Clear Ventures. Having delivered production deployments across data centers, content delivery networks and service provider environments, the funding enables Arrcus to expand its operations to support its rapidly growing customer base, build strategic partnerships, and expand the reach of its market-leading independent network operating system, ArcOS. With this announcement, Guru Chahal, Partner at Lightspeed, will join Steve Herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst, and Chris Rust, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures on the Board of Directors.
Arrcus delivers high-density 100G/400G Jericho2 solutions for hyperscale cloud, edge and 5G networks, supported by the most flexible consumption model and the lowest TCO.
Arrcus was founded in 2016 by veterans of Broadcom and Cisco, Devesh Garg, Keyur Patel and Derek Yeung. The Arrcus team consists of world-class, industry-leading technicians from networking, routing, infrastructure, quality and reliability and automation environments, who have an unparalleled record of having shipped together 630+ products of production volume and publishing 275+ IETF/RFC papers while holding 190+ patents.
Company advisors shall include:
Pankaj Patel, former TPP and CDO, Cisco
Amarjit Gill, a serial entrepreneur who has founded and sold companies to Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, EMC, Facebook, Google and Intel.
Kelly Ahuja, former SVP/GM, Business Service Provider, Cisco & currently CEO, Versa
Fred Baker, former Cisco Fellow, Chair & Co-Chair of IETF, IPv6 Working Group
Farzad Nazem, ex-CTO, Yahoo
Rajiv Patel, former VP of Engineering, Juniper.
Shawn Zandi, Network Engineering Director, LinkedIn
Nancy Lee, CHRO of Lime, former People’s VP, Google
The company has delivered networking innovations and solutions that deliver a single, unified architecture across physical, virtual and cloud network environments while delivering operational flexibility, superior performance and security. As a result, customers can now cost-effectively design, deploy, and manage infrastructure while seamlessly scaling to the needs of hyperscale cloud, edge, and 5G networks and beyond.
Arrcus co-founder and CEO Devesh Garg said: “I’m thrilled that Lightspeed and Guru have joined the Arrcus team as they strengthen our infrastructure expertise and operational scale to support the ArcOS® production ramp. Both business providers and businesses want to move away from closed, proprietary, vertically integrated systems and prefer freedom of choice. It’s an exciting time at Arrcus as our disruptive vision democratizes the networking industry by providing the best-in-class software, the most flexible consumption model, and the lowest overall cost of ownership for our customers. “That’s right.
“Data center, cloud-to-edge and 5G solutions and information revolution are all accelerating broad-based infrastructure upgrade cycles that require flexible, massively scalable and highly cost-effective routing-centric networking solutions. Arrcus has addressed these fundamental challenges and has all the ingredients to lead the transformation for this large market,” said Guru Chahal, Lightspeed Partner.
On the Arrcus
Arrcus was founded to enrich human experience by interconnecting people, machines and data. Our mission is to provide software-powered network transformation to the interconnected world. The Arrcus team consists of world-class technologists with an unparalleled record in shipping industry-leading networking products, complemented by industry-leading think tanks, operating executives and strategic company builders.
The company is based in San Jose, California.
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