Sunlight

Sunlight’s hyper-cloud virtualisation technology addresses bottlenecks in applications such as AI, analytics, and big data, caused by the rapid increase in data creation.

Sunlight’s hyper-cloud virtualisation technology addresses bottlenecks in applications such as AI, analytics, and big data, caused by the rapid increase in data creation.

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Milestones

Founded in 2013 Series A at €4.9 million in 2020

Investment year

2020

Investment stage

Series A

Investment status

Exited

Deal team

Sam Hields

Sunlight’s hyper-cloud virtualisation technology addresses bottlenecks in applications such as AI, analytics, and big data, caused by the rapid increase in data creation.

Businesses increasingly rely on data-intensive applications to run their core processes, but the data volume makes cloud processing impractical. Sunlight offers a unified HCI platform that can be deployed on-premise on standard data centre hardware, in AWS, and on resource-constrained far-edge devices. Sunlight’s technology can reduce the infrastructure costs of running these applications by up to 70%.

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