At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 49 Private Cloud companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Private Cloud Companies & Startups (California, United States)
HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Founder(s): Armon Dadgar, Mitchell Hashimoto
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Private Cloud, Software
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CloudKnox Security
CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Founder(s): Balaji Parimi, Rao Cherukuri
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Information Technology, Private Cloud
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HyperGrid™
HyperGrid offers a cloud management platform that can discover, plan, optimize, secure, and manage workloads across any cloud.
Founder(s): Manoj Nair, Nariman Teymourian
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Cloud Security, IaaS, PaaS, Private Cloud, SaaS
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Paxata
Paxata is an adaptive data preparation platform built for the analyst to turn raw data into ready data for analytics.
Founder(s): Chris Maddox, Dave Brewster, Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Prakash Nanduri
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration, Machine Learning, Private Cloud, Software
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Joyent
Joyent is a cloud infrastructure service provider that enables its customers to operate modern cloud native applications.
Founder(s): David Young, Dean Allen, Jason Hoffman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Automotive, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Infrastructure, Open Source, Private Cloud, Software, Web Hosting
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Zerostack
ZeroStack uses intelligent software to deliver a self-driving, fully integrated private cloud platform.
Founder(s): Ajay Gulati, Kiran Bondalapati
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Information Technology, Private Cloud, SaaS, Software
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Nebula
Nebula allows any business to easily build a massive private computing cloud from hundreds or thousands of inexpensive computers.
Founder(s): Chris Kemp, Devin Carlen, Steve O’Hara
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Electronics, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Hardware, Information Technology, Messaging, Private Cloud
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MediaJel
Digital Marketing platform for Cannabis, CBD, and Alcohol Brands – it’s our thing.
Founder(s): Jake Litke
Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Cannabis, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Private Cloud, SaaS
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CloudPhysics
CloudPhysics provides predictive analytics for proactive virtual datacenter management.
Founder(s): Irfan Ahmad, Jim Kleckner, John Blumenthal, Xiaojun Liu
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Infrastructure, Private Cloud, SaaS
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Datera
Datera is the leading Enterprise Software-Defined Storage Platform for Global 2000 enterprises and cloud service providers.
Founder(s): Claudio Fleiner, Marc Fleischmann, Nicholas Bellinger
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Data Center, Data Storage, Enterprise Applications, Infrastructure, Private Cloud, Software
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Pixeom
Pixeom is the market leading software-defined edge computing platform.
Founder(s): Karishma Nagar, Sam Nagar
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Internet of Things, IT Infrastructure, Private Cloud, SaaS, Software
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Pixeom
Pixeom is the market leading software-defined edge computing platform.
Founder(s): Karishma Nagar, Sam Nagar
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Internet of Things, IT Infrastructure, Private Cloud, SaaS, Software
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Coho Data
The Coho Data platform delivers Rack Scale Converged, Software-Defined Data Center solutions for the enterprise private cloud.
Founder(s): Andrew Warfield, Keir Fraser, Ramana Jonnala
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Data Center, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Private Cloud, Software, Virtualization
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Teradata
Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Founder(s): Carroll Reed, David Hartke, Jack Shemer, Jerold Modes, Philip Neches, Walter Muir, William Worth
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Storage, Consulting, Marketing, Private Cloud, Software
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Nirvanix
cloud storage, business phone systems, voip, pbx, sip trunks
Founder(s): Christopher Harr, Geoff Tudor
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Management, Enterprise Software, Private Cloud, Small and Medium Businesses, VoIP
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Kiteworks
Kiteworks empowers organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive and save of sensitive content.
Founder(s): Nikhil Jhingan, S Mohan
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Compliance, Enterprise Software, File Sharing, Private Cloud, Security, Software
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Dropbox
Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Founder(s): Arash Ferdowsi, Drew Houston
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaboration, Enterprise Software, File Sharing, Private Cloud, Web Hosting
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Lyrid
Build, Deploy, and Manage Multi-Cloud Platform
Founder(s): Handoyo Sutanto, Simon Loo
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Information Technology, Private Cloud, SaaS
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antsle, Inc.
antsle is a private cloud server designed for developers.
Founder(s): Bernd “Bernie” Blume, Johannes Dietzel, Kurt Neumann
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Developer Platform, Private Cloud, Virtualization, Web Hosting
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NephoScale, Inc.
NephOS is the only turnkey multi-tenant OpenStack-based IaaS software stack for building public, private, and hybrid clouds, in hours
Founder(s): Bruce Templeton, Telemachus Luu
Location: Saratoga, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Management, Enterprise Software, IaaS, Information Technology, Private Cloud, Software
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Solinea
The professional services partner that accelerates enterprise cloud adoption
Founder(s): Francesco Paola, Ken Pepple
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Consulting, Open Source, Private Cloud
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yooSEND
yooSEND – is the most advanced and secure cloud storage and file transfer solutions, for personal and business consumers.
Founder(s): Aurelian Bacescu
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cloud Storage, File Sharing, Information Technology, Private Cloud, Security, Software
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AppScale Systems
AppScale is hybrid cloud infrastructure software that emulates the core AWS APIs.
Founder(s): Chandra Krintz, Chris G. Bunch, Navraj (Raj) Chohan, Woody Rollins
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Center, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Private Cloud, SaaS, Software
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InMotion Hosting
InMotion Hosting provides fast and reliable website hosting. All backed by 24/7/365 customer support and a 90-day money-back guarantee.
Founder(s): Sunil Saxena, Todd Robinson
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Private Cloud, Web Design, Web Hosting
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ISSQUARED
ISSQUARED provides Identity & Access Management, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Infrastructure for global enterprises’ information security needs
Founder(s): Balasubramanian Ramaiah
Location: Newbury Park, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Management, Consulting, Cyber Security, IaaS, Identity Management, IT Management, Private Cloud, Software, Training
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Cloud.com
Cloud.com develops an open source cloud orchestration software product for the implementation of cloud computing environments.
Founder(s): Shannon Williams, Sheng Liang, Will Chan
Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Enterprise Software, IaaS, Private Cloud, Software
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SCORM Anywhere, LLC d.b.a Appinium
Appinium the only native Video and eLearning player built on the Salesforce platform.
Founder(s): Steve Jacobson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Information Technology, Private Cloud, Sales Automation, Software, Video
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StoneFly Inc.
StoneFly, Inc. is one of the innovators of cost-effective full-featured storage appliances since 2000.
Founder(s): Mo Tahmasebi
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Data Storage, Network Hardware, PaaS, Private Cloud, SaaS, Software
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ZeroLag Communications
ZeroLag Communications is a web hosting company provides dedicated server hosting, magento hosting and private cloud hosting.
Founder(s): Greg Strelzoff
Location: Sherman Oaks, California, United States
Industries: Private Cloud, Web Hosting
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ScaleMatrix
ScaleMatrix was founded with the intent to design, deploy and manage private cloud solutions for their clients.
Founder(s): Chris Orlando
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Private Cloud, Web Hosting
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Acuratio
Multicloud Federated Learning
Founder(s): Alberto Román, Iker Ceballos
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Machine Learning, Privacy, Private Cloud, SaaS
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Kmesh.io
Kmesh.io is a multi-cloud data orchestration company that develops a data mobility platform designed to easily distribute data.
Founder(s): Michael Nishimoto, Ramanand Narayanan, Vinay Gaonkar
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Private Cloud, Software
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VIRTALUS
VIRTALUS is a provider of innovative Hyper-Converged Infrastructure services on demand.
Founder(s): Juan Soriano, Mazhar Durrani, Raffy Ohannesian
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Storage, Network Security, Private Cloud
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Dedicated.com
Dedicated.com provides dedicated servers, colocation, VPS hosting, private cloud, DDOS protection and network services.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Data Center, Internet, Private Cloud, Web Hosting
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Blueshift
Blueshift provides technology consulting, private cloud infrastructure, web hosting and domain registration services.
Founder(s): Craig MacKinder
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Domain Registrar, Information Technology, Private Cloud, Web Hosting
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Evolve Partners
Evolve Partners provides in-house and personalized outsourced IT support and enterprise-level private cloud hosting services.
Founder(s): Brian Roach
Location: Anaheim, California, United States
Industries: Private Cloud, Web Hosting
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OPEN-V
Hyperscale Private Cloud Appliances
Founder(s): Clark Hogan, Srinithin Jayabal
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Private Cloud
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ReqStudio
ReqStudio is the online requirements management solution for companies to gather easily requirements and continuously drive team performance
Founder(s): Gerardo E. Saborío Molina
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Compliance, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Software, Private Cloud, Project Management, SaaS, Simulation, Software
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Lancastr
Enterprise networks made easy
Founder(s): Gleb Pomykalov
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Management, Cloud Security, Hardware, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Network Security, Private Cloud, Software
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PlanetMagpie IT Consulting
The only IT Partner you need! Comprehensive IT services from Silicon Valley veterans. Now operating in Silicon Valley and Dallas-Fort Worth.
Founder(s): Robert Douglas
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Management, Consulting, Cyber Security, Information Technology, IT Infrastructure, Network Security, Private Cloud, SEO, Technical Support, Web Development
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Skydera
Skydera is the Platform-as-a-Service innovator for cross-cloud IT automation. Founded in 2009 in the Silicon Valley, Skydera is focused on
Founder(s): Lecole Cole
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Software, Private Cloud, SaaS, Software
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Anso Labs
Anso Labs provides software and services that allow organizations of all sizes to operate their own private cloud computing infrastructure.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Private Cloud, Software
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Cloudcone
Cloudcone provides cloud services.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Internet, Private Cloud
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Pacific Bay Technologies
Pacific Bay Technologies is an information technology company that offers data center management and cloud services.
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Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Data Center, Information Technology, Private Cloud
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Argon Systems Inc
Argon Systems designs, deploys, and integrates Azure private cloud optimized for your needs.
Founder(s): Robert Keith
Location: Milpitas, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Center, Network Hardware, Private Cloud
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KnowledgeCentrix
KnowledgeCentrix serves enterprise content, technology optimization, and cloud services.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Private Cloud, Software
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Pacific Cloud Services
Pacific Cloud Services provides enterprises with managed private cloud for various SAP business applications.
Founder(s): Daniel Huss
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Management, Consulting, Information Technology, Private Cloud
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ECO-IT Networking
ECO-IT Networking provides computer and IT services to companies.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Information Technology, Private Cloud, VoIP
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Ops On Demand
Ops On Demand provides cloud Iaas, cloud build, big data, and cloud technology services.
Founder(s): Srini Bala
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, IaaS, Private Cloud
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