These 10 data storage technology developers, who just in the last year or three introduced their first hardware or software, are looking to help businesses and users better protect and manage their data, scale it, and make it accessible.
Cloud hyperscalers have over the past couple years vacuumed up so much data that the cloud now accounts for about 57 percent of data stored, according to analyst firm Statista.
Although they have done this, on-premises storage and hybrid cloud and on-prem storage are still strong markets for data protection, management, archiving, and migration. This is evidenced by the number of startups that continue to look for ways to make their marks in this vibrant industry.
CRN here presents 10 storage startups to keep an eye on. These 10 were founded in just the last couple years in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Israel, and India, and bring a wide range of new capabilities to businesses and end users.
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They range from Arctera, the 40-year-old startup founded on the ashes of Veritas, to Cerabyte, whose cutting-edge ceramic-based storage technology looks to be available soon.
There’s Slide, which marks the return of Datto founder Austin McChord to the MSP-focused data protection business; Datafy, which targets DevOps and FinOps teams looking to add storage to their offerings; and Xinnor, which brings a whole new software-only twist to the venerable RAID business.
Here’s the complete list of some of the hottest data storage startups so far in 2025.
Arctera
CEO: Lawrence Wong
Headquarters: Pleasanton, Calif.
Website: https://www.arctera.io/
Arctera was founded late 2024 after Cohesity closed its acquisition of Veritas’ enterprise data protection business. The remaining part of Veritas—its Enterprise Vault data archiving, InfoScale data availability, and Backup Exec data protection businesses—became part of a brand-new company called Arctera. That makes Arctera essentially a 40-year-old startup. Arctera is focused on data management to address issues related to data compliance, data resilience, and data protection.
Cerabyte
CEO and founder: Christian Pflaum
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Website: https://www.cerabyte.com/
Cerabyte is developing ceramic-based storage the company claims is heat and fire safe, EMP burst safe, moisture and waterproof, UV light resistant, radiation resistant, and corrosion resistant. The technology uses lasers to write data at up to 2 million bits with a single pulse, along with high-speed cameras to read the data. The company claims data so stored will be safe and readable for a century or more. Cerabyte this year scored investment from In-Q-Tel to help ready its technology for government use.
Datafy
CEO: Zivan Ori
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel
Website: https://www.datafy.io/
Datafy, backed by Insight Partners, develops technology that allows DevOps and FinOps teams to better manage and automate their cloud storage. The company’s CEO led Amazon’s EBS (Elastic Block Storage) development. Datafy’s EBS Auto-Scaling allows one-line installation of EBS to EC2 instances or Kubernetes clusters with no engineering needed. Its EBS Directory provides cost insights into a business’ EBS utilization.
Datamotive
Co-Founders: Sameer Zaveri and Yogesh Anyapanawar
Headquarters: Pune, India
Website: https://www.datamotive.io/
Datamotive develops the Datamotive Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Workload Portability platform, which converges disaster recovery and workload mobility across and between on-prem and public cloud platforms. The technology lets businesses seamlessly and instantaneously scale, migrate, or recover any virtualized workloads across hypervisors.
Digiboxx
CEO and Founder: Arnab Mitra
Headquarters: Mumbai, India
Website: https://digiboxx.com/
Digiboxx was founded as India’s first cloud storage platform to address data residency requirements. The company’s line card includes Digiboxx cloud storage and sharing, Digishare cloud storage for Instagram users, Digifotos for storing digital photos on-line, and Megh3 for protecting S3-compatible object storage.
Diskover
CEO: Will Hall
Headquarters: Reno, Nev.
Website: https://digiboxx.com/
Diskover develops technology aimed at bringing structure to unstructured data via advanced indexing, metadata enrichment, and automation. The Diskover platform lets businesses gain a unified view of their scattered regardless of where it resides, analyze that data for pattern or opportunities to improve decisions and optimize storage, easily and securely migrate data, orchestrate data management, and add high-value to AI and analytics platforms.
Slide
CEO and Co-founder: Michael Fass
Headquarters: Norwalk, Ct.
Website: https://slide.tech/
Slide is a security-focused developer of business continuity and disaster recovery technology exclusively for MSPs. The company was founded by Austin McChord, Datto founder and former CEO, and Michael Fass, Datto’s general counsel and chief people officer, three years after Datto was acquired by Kaseya. Slide’s initial product line includes three data protection appliances ranging from a small desktop model to a 2U rackmount model, all featuring NVMe u.2 SSDs
TeraBox
CEO and President of parent company FlexTech: Craig Pfent
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Website: https://www.terabox.com/
TeraBox is a provider of cloud storage technology developed by Tokyo, Japan-based FlexTech. The company provides free encrypted cloud storage up to 1,024 GB with some limits, and up to 2 TBs under its Premium+ program that includes AI-based services such as AI Essay Writer, AI Presentation Maker, AI Transcribe, AI Assistant, AI Translation, and more. The company also provides raw capacity at larger scale without the services.
UltiHash
CEO and Co-founder: Tom Ludersdorf
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Website: https://www.ultihash.io/
Ultihash develops a scalable object storage platform aimed at reducing storage usage without impacting performance while helping provide a base for AI and advanced analytics. It integrates with third-party tools via an S3-compatible API, and has a Kubernetes-native design for easy implementation in the cloud and on premises. The company stores data in European Union data centers to provide data residency guarantees.
Xinnor
CEO: Dmitry Livshits
Headquarters: Haifa, Israel
Website: https://xinnor.io/
Xinnor develops software RAID technology it claims offers exceptional performance. The company’s high-performance xiRAID software distributes data across multiple storage devices including direct-attached flash drives and flash drives connected via NVMe-oF to improve data protection and accessibility. It also provides xiSTORE which combines xiRAID with the Lustre FS clustered file system on commodity hardware for a scalable storage system.
