15Sep
08Sep
axle Video and Wasabi Deliver Disruptive Media Cloud Solution
We at Wasabi, the hot storage company, are excited to officially announce a partnership with axle Video, the pioneer of affordable “radically simple” media management, to create axle Media Cloud, available to post production teams as a monthly subscription. Read more >>
31Aug
Wharton Business Radio: Launch Pad
David Friend, Co-Founder and CEO of Wasabi Technologies, joined host Rob Coneybeer to discuss cloud storage solutions and his entrepreneurial journey on Launch Pad. Read more >>
12Aug
3+ Months after Launch, Wasabi’s Assault on S3 Said to Be on Plan
David Friend comes across as a modest, unassuming fellow who talks about his start-up storage company, Wasabi, and its technology in an understated, commonsensical kind of way. But make no mistake, Friend is pursuing a grand ambition that takes dead aim at a big target: the public cloud storage market, which Wasabi intends to turn on its head. Read more >>
08Aug
Wasabi Technologies takes on Amazon S3 on price, performance
Wasabi secures more cash for data center expansion after cloud storage launch entices trial users on claims of significantly lower prices, higher performance than Amazon S3. Read more >>
27Jul
Wasabi Technologies $15.00 million Fundraising. David Friend Submitted Jul 24 Form D
Wasabi Technologies, Inc., Corporation just filed form D announcing $15.00 million debt financing. This is a new filing. Wasabi Technologies was able to sell $10.77 million so far. That is 71.78 % of the financing round. The total offering amount was $15.00 million. The private financing document was filed on 2017-07-24. The reason for the financing was: unspecified. The fundraising still has about $4.23 million more and is not closed yet. We have to wait more to see if the...
26Jul
The Big One
Wasabi Technologies, the cloud storage startup started by Carbonite’s founders, just raised a $10.7M convertible note, according to new Form D filing. Having previously raised $8.9M from angel investors, the company launched earlier this year as a faster and cheaper competitor to Amazon’s popular S3 service. Read more >>
12Jul
The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2017 (So Far)
Wasabi was ranked amongst the top 10 coolest storage startups of 2017. Wasabi Technologies in May came out of stealth mode with a promise to store customers’ data in its cloud six times fast than can be done with Amazon S3 while charging only $0.0039 per GB, per month. Read more >>
06Jul
Why immutable buckets are a worthy risk management tool
Immutable means that the user cannot delete files under any circumstance. There is no ‘admin privilege’. Even at Wasabi, no one person can delete the data. For instance, if a customer fails to pay their bill, it’s a big process involving multiple people having to simultaneously ‘turn their keys’ to delete an abandoned immutable bucket”, Friend says. Read more >>
29Jun