When was Excelero founded?

Excelero was founded in 2014 and raised its 1st funding round 1 year after it was founded.

Where is Excelero located?

Excelero is headquartered in San Jose, United States. It is registered at White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

How many employees does Excelero have?

As of Jul 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Excelero is 14.

Is Excelero a funded company?

Excelero is a funded company, having raised a total of $30.5M across 4 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Series A round, raised on 2015.

When was the latest funding round of Excelero?

Excelero's latest funding was a $***** Series B round on May 16, 2019, with participation from 1 investor. Its primary sector is High Performance Computing. In United States, the High Performance Computing sector has seen $14.6B in funding in 2026 to date.

Where does Excelero rank among its competitors?

Excelero ranks 7th amongst 33 active competitors, of which 8 are funded. It stands 4th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was DDN, which secured $300M in Jan, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Excelero?

Excelero's top competitors include DDN, WEKA and Wiwynn. Among them, DDN secured the most recent funding round in January, 2025.

Excelero - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Q: Is Excelero an acquired company?

Excelero got acquired by Nvidia on Mar 07, 2022.

Company Details

Excelero provides storage components for high-performance computing. The product offered by the company is a software product that leverages, NVMe SSD and SR-IOV, and RDMA. It offers a decentralized server-based flash-based block storage. The features include remote direct drive access, performance analytics engine, etc. The clients of the company include NASA, Beseq, InstaDeep, etc.

Website: excelero.com
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Email ID: *****@excelero.com, *****@excelero.com
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Registered Address: White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2014

Location

San Jose, United States

Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$30.5M in 4 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series B, May 16, 2019, $*****

Investors

Qualcomm Ventures & 11 more

Ranked

7^th among 33 active competitors

Employee Count

14 as on Jul 31, 2026

Similar Companies

DDN & 29 more

Exit Details

Acquired by Nvidia (Mar 07, 2022)

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Excelero is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
EXCELERON MEDICAL, INC. CIN: 320195564 , United States, Active	Dec 31, 1999	-	19 (As on Dec 31, 2024)	-

Excelero got acquired by Nvidia on Mar 07, 2022 at an acquisition amount of $*****.

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Excelero has raised a total funding of $30.5M over 4 rounds. Its first funding round was on 2015. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on May 16, 2019 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Excelero has 8 institutional investors and 4 angel investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Excelero:

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Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
May 16, 2019	1539501	Series B	2560441	6146506	9754237	6051495
Aug 16, 2018	6293455	Series B	4139883	3519807	3890109	Western Digital & 1 more
Nov 07, 2017	3954459	Series B	8990239	9184618	Qualcomm Ventures	3222692

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The founders of Excelero is Lior Gal Genzel.

Here are the details of Excelero's key team members:

Lior Gal Genzel: Ceo & Co-Founder (Acquired By Nvidia) of Excelero.

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Excelero's employee count trend

Excelero has 14 employees as of Jul 26. Here is Excelero's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Excelero include DDN, WEKA and Wiwynn. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Excelero, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	DDN 1998, Chatsworth (United States), Series B	Platform offering big data and HPC storage appliances for businesses	$310M	ClearLight Partners, Blackstone & 3 others	75/100
2nd	WEKA 2013, Campbell (United States), Series E	Provider of data storage software platforms for artificial intelligence workloads	$372M	Qualcomm Ventures, Generation Investment Management ... & 28 others	59/100
3rd	Wiwynn 2012, Taipei (Taiwan), Funding Raised	Computing and storage products and rack solutions for data centers	-	Top Taiwan Venture Capital	52/100
4th	Infortrend 1993, Taipei (Taiwan), Public	Provider of enterprise data storage and artificial intelligence solution products	-	-	50/100
5th	Panasas 1999, Sunnyvale (United States), Series F	Parallel file system based storage solutions provider	$149M	Centennial Ventures, Focus Ventures & 13 others	50/100
6th	Simplyblock 2022, Teltow (Germany), Seed	Provider of block based storage solutions and data platform for enterprises	$2.75M	42 Capital, Antler & 4 others	48/100
7th	Excelero 2014, San Jose (United States), Acquired	Provider of block storage components for high performance computing	$30.5M	Qualcomm Ventures, Regah Ventures & 10 others	46/100
8th	Premio Inc 1989, Los Angeles (United States), Unfunded	Manufacturer of storage servers	-	-	44/100
9th	StorPool 2011, Sofia (Bulgaria), Series A	Cloud based software and defined block storage solutions provider	-	LAUNCHUB	43/100
10th	Quobyte 2013, Berlin (Germany), Series A	Cloud-based software-defined storage infrastructure	-	Target Partners, HTGF & 3 others	39/100