These 10 upstart data storage technology developers in just the last few years came to market with hardware or software aimed at helping businesses and users better protect and manage their data, scale it, make it resilient, and make it accessible.
The migration of data to the cloud is not letting up. Analyst firm Synergy Research Group, for instance, estimated in June that the 1,189 large data centers operated by hyperscale companies at the end of the first quarter 2025 accounted for about 44 percent of the total worldwide data center capacity, a number that is expected to grow to 61 percent by 2030.
That leaves less space in the market for on-premises or colo-based data, but could lead to new opportunities for innovative data storage hardware and storage startups with new technologies for protecting, managing, archiving, and migrating data.
CRN here presents 10 storage startups to keep an eye on. These 10 companies, which only in the last couple of years introduced their first products, have sprouted up in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Israel, and India.
[Related: The 2025 Storage 100]
Some of the hottest data storage startups in 2025 include:
- He became Cloud
- Cerabyte
- Datafy
- Datamotive
- Disco over
- Slide
- Spectrum Labs
- TeraBox
- UltiHash
- Xinnor
To learn more, check out the entire list of storage startups for 2025.
He became Cloud
CEO and Founder: Stefaan Vervaet
Headquarters: Wilmington, Del.
Website: https://akave.com/
Akave came out of stealth late last year with a seed funding round of $3.45 million to develop on-chain data management technology. The company, now better known as Akave Cloud, develops an S3-compatible cloud it claims saves businesses up to 80 percent on their storage costs by offering zero egress fees, verifiable audit trails, and built-in ransomware protection.
Cerabyte
CEO and founder: Christian Plum
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Website: https://www.cerabyte.com/
Cerabyte is developing ceramic-based storage the company claims is heat- and fire-resistant, EMP burst safe, moisture and waterproof, UV light resistant, radiation resistant, and corrosion resistant. Its Ceramic Nano Memory 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, all at a cost lower than current media. The company claims data that’s stored will be safe and readable for up to 100 years. Cerabyte this year scored investment from In-Q-Tel, an independent, non-profit strategic investor for the CIA, 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-Scaler allows one-line installation of EBS to EC2 instances or Kubernetes clusters with no engineering needed. Its Datafy Sensor 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 platform’s EasyMigrate, EasyHybridDR, and EasyAnalytics modules let businesses seamlessly and instantaneously scale, migrate, or recover any virtualized workloads across hypervisors. The company in 2023 unveiled a seed funding round of $3.8 million.
Disco over
CEO: Will Hall
Headquarters: Milpitas, Calif.
Website: https://diskoverdata.com/
Diskover develops technology aimed at bringing structure to unstructured data via advanced indexing, metadata enrichment, and automation. The company in June 2025 unveiled a $7.5 million seed round including strategic investment from Snowflake and NetApp, and acquired data intelligence and orchestration platform company CloudSoda. 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, which in June of 2025 raised $25 million in a series A funding round, 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
Spectrum Labs
CEO and Founder: JJ Thompson
Headquarters: Carmel, Ind.
Website: https://spektrum.ai/
Spektrum Labs, which emerged from stealth in October of 2025, develops technology for what it calls AI-first cyber resilience. The company’s new Spektrum Fusion platform, offers time-stamped immutable, cryptographic proof of cyber resilience for enterprise data to help accelerate insurance approvals, claims validation, and incident recovery. Autonomous AI agents run 24/7 to help reduce audit preparation, streamline compliance, and analyze resiliency posture.
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 started as a provider of free encrypted cloud storage with a 1,024-gigabyte capacity that can be upgraded to a premium paid service with increased functionality. TeraBox this past Summer added six new AI-focused tools for generating presentation slide decks, drafting articles and essays, rewriting and fine-tuning written content, converting speech to text in real time, intelligently search for files, and scan and work with all types of files.
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. It most recently introduced UltiHash Serverless S3 buckets built for AI performance. The company, which in early 2024 raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed funding round, 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, and xiNAS, an NFS server technology for AI and HPC workloads powered by xiRAID.