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Proven, Cost-Effective Open Source Backup and Recovery

Zmanda is the world’s leading provider of open source backup and recovery software. Our open source development and distribution model enables us to deliver the highest quality backup software such as Amanda and Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL at a fraction of the cost of software from proprietary vendors. Our simple-to-use yet feature-rich backup software is complemented by top-notch services and support expected by enterprise customers.

Zmanda’s innovations include technology to backup data from live applications and databases directly to a storage cloud. Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) backs up a Windows server and live applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server to Amazon S3 — a highly dependable and scalable online storage.

Zmanda contributes significant development resources to open source data protection projects that share our vision. We also provide hardware, collaboration tools and financial assistance to key developers in the open source community.

Some of the world’s most forward thinking companies in 60 countries benefit from the collective insights of a thriving open source backup community delivered in form of Zmanda’s products and people.

Chander Kant

Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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Paddy Sreenivasan

Paddy is the Vice President of Engineering and a founder of Zmanda, Inc. He is responsible for technical strategy and development of leading software products for data protection. Paddy has over 13 years of experience in development and management of software for enterprise storage. In addition, he has worked with various open source communities, including leading the development of an open source high-availability clustering solution. Prior to founding Zmanda, he had key engineering roles at Cisco, SGI and HP. He holds a Bachelor's degree from BITS, Pilani and a Master's degree from the University of Pune, India.

Peter Buhl

General Partner, co-founded BlueRun Ventures in 1998. Prior to BlueRun Ventures, Pete spent 8 years in senior financial and operational roles at information technology companies including Ipsilon Networks and Software Alliance Corporation. He began his career at Price Waterhouse and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to Zmanda, Pete serves on the Board of Directors of Atrua Technologies, Cornice, FreedomPay, Netli, Nevis Networks and WaveMarket.

Deepak Kamra

General Partner, joined Canaan in 1991 after eleven years of operating responsibility in the telecommunications, computer, and software industries. Prior to joining Canaan, he held several senior sales and marketing positions at Aspect Communications, a successful Silicon Valley based startup in the call-center and switching industry. He previously held positions at ROLM Corporation and was General Manager of a division of TRW Datacomm International. He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. In addition to Zmanda, Deepak currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Aperto Networks, e4e, GroundWork, InfiniRoute, Loyalty Lab, ON24, and Qovia.

Ashish Gupta

Managing Director and an Investment Advisor at Helion Ventures Partners. Prior to Helion, Ashish was most recently a venture partner at Woodside Fund, investing in early stage companies. He invested in and co-founded Tavant technologies, a $50 million+ revenue company. Before Tavant, he was at Amazon.com which he joined through acquisition of Junglee which Ashish co–founded. He has also worked at Oracle Corporation and at IBM's Almaden Research Center. Ashish holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold medal.

Chander Kant

Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur.
 

Canaan Partners

Founded in 1987, Canaan Partners has amassed a seasoned team of investment professionals with extensive technology, infrastructure, communications and life sciences experience. The diverse backgrounds and skill sets of team members enable Canaan to provide portfolio companies with an unusually broad range of managerial and operational guidance. Canaan's investment professionals have significant investment, operations and management experience with small and mid-sized companies. The backgrounds of the professionals include operating experience in engineering, manufacturing, finance, strategic planning, investment banking and legal affairs. The majority of the General Partners have worked together since the early 1990s. Canaan currently manages roughly $2.0B in investment capital.