Quick Take
Western Digital (WDC) has made a strategic investment in Excelero, joining other corporate investors in supporting the firm.
Excelero is developing software-defined cloud and enterprise storage solutions.
WDC is picking up its strategic investment pace as it seeks to drive adoption of its OpenFlex architecture technologies.
Investee Company
The Santa Clara, California-based Excelero was founded in 2014 to develop Software-defined block storage for cloud and enterprise applications at any scale.
Management is headed by Co-Founder and CEO Lior Gal, who was previously Advisory Board Member at the Open19 Foundation,