Cohesity

Cohesity

Cohesity was founded in 2013 by Mohit Aron, the engineer who earlier co-founded Nutanix and helped design the Google File System. The company was built to solve a structural problem: fragmented data silos that left enterprises vulnerable. Aron's insight — that backup, security, and analytics should converge on a single software-defined platform — shaped the early architecture, and the firm still carries that converged posture today under CEO Sanjay Poonen. The firm deploys capital across a broad asset-class mix spanning enterprise software, cyber resilience, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML. Its platform protects data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, with stage-agnostic coverage that spans early threat detection through immutable backup and rapid recovery. Cohesity's strategy accelerated on 1 February 2024, when it completed the combination with Veritas's enterprise data protection business, bringing NetBackup and Alta into its portfolio (per the firm, February 2024). The deal created a scaled entity with a combined customer base that includes Nasdaq, Conagra, and Bethany Children's Health Center. The firm actively sells into financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing verticals, with a geographic footprint across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Cohesity does not publicly disclose total assets under management or headcount, but the Veritas combination established a combined valuation reported at roughly $7 billion (per Reuters, February 2024). The nine-member executive team draws from Google, VMware, SAP, and Rubrik, and the board includes observers from Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Premji Invest, NVIDIA, and DFJ Growth. On 30 April 2026, Cohesity announced it had earned the AWS Resilience Competency, signaling an operational push into cloud-native cyber recovery. The company also operates an AI-powered conversational search tool called Cohesity Gaia, and it maintains a 30-day free trial program for cloud-based cyber vaulting. The structural differentiator is Cohesity's post-merger architecture: it operates as a single platform spanning legacy Veritas workloads and modern cloud-native data management, effectively compressing two decades of enterprise backup into one combined entity. That dual heritage — Mohit Aron's hyperconvergence DNA merged with Veritas's NetBackup install base — is not a typical private-company configuration, and it positions Cohesity at the center of every customer's cyber-resilience budget rather than at the perimeter.