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Simplivity

Enterprise infrastructureUSA
New to Unitard
🀝 Acquired
PeakΒ $1.1 BillionToday
-41%
from peak
  1. πŸ¦„
    Became a unicorn
    Mar 2015
  2. πŸ“ˆ
    Peak valuation
    $1.1 Billion ’15
  3. πŸ’”
    Became a Unitard
    Jan 2017
  4. πŸ’Έ
    Last valuation
    ~$649M
Current status
Acquired Β· ~$650M

The rise & fall

5 moments Β· 2009–2017

The key moments.

2009
Founded outside Boston
Doron Kempel's bet that the whole data-center stack could collapse into one box.
TechCrunch
Mar 2015
The peak: a $1.1B infrastructure unicorn$1.1B
A Series D values SimpliVity at ~$1.1B as the hyperconverged wars heat up.
TechCrunch
2016
Nutanix beats it to Wall Street
Its archrival goes public while SimpliVity stays private β€” and the data-center market keeps consolidating around bigger players.
TechCrunch
Jan 2017
Acquired by HPE for $650M$650M
All cash, roughly 41% below the peak β€” the independent path ends on HPE's terms.
TechCrunch

How it happened

SimpliVity was a U.S. hyperconverged enterprise infrastructure company that reached a ~$1.1B valuation in 2015. As competition intensified in the data-center market, it was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in January 2017 for about $650M, roughly 41% below its peak private valuation.

Glassdoor reviews from its independent years were strongly positive on the culture and pace, before the 2017 HPE acquisition.

Employee accounts paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor β†—. See our methodology.

Source: TechCrunch/SEC; HPE acq. $650M, Jan 2017

Founder

Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-21. See our methodology.

Disclosed investors (8)

Historical funding participation; lists may be incomplete and do not establish current ownership or investor losses.

* Lead in a funding round Β· Crunchbase β†— Β· 2026-10-13 Β· Methodology Β· Leaderboard

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