Pivotal Software

Acquired

Transform how the world builds software.

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2013 · $358.0M raised

Employees
1001–5000
Founded
2013
Business Model
B2B
Website
pivotal.io
Total Funding
$358.0M
Last Round
$253.0M Series CMay 2016
Rounds
2
Acquired by
VMwareJan 2020 · $2.7B

Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.

About

Pivotal Software was a San Francisco-based software and services company spun out of EMC Corporation and VMware in 2012. Built around the Cloud Foundry open-source platform-as-a-service, Pivotal offered cloud-native application development tools, the Greenplum big data database, Spring Framework, RabbitMQ, and enterprise consulting through Pivotal Labs. The company raised $1.78 billion in funding, went public on the NYSE in April 2018, and was acquired by VMware for $2.7 billion in December 2019.

Summary

Pivotal Software is a Cloud company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2013. It has raised $358.0M in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $253.0M Series C round in May 2016. Investors include General Electric, VMware and Ford.

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Funding & Exit History

AcquisitionVMware AcquisitionJan 2020

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Funding: Corporate Round through Series C. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

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