Startups Directory

Wasabi Technologies provides hot cloud object storage at 80% lower cost than AWS S3 with 6x faster performance, zero egress fees, and no complex pricing tiers. Built for organizations storing unlimited data that need predictable, transparent billing and instant access without surprise charges. The company serves over 100 countries across industries including media, sports, backup, and archiving with 16 global storage regions.

Weka provides NeuralMesh, a software-defined storage platform purpose-built for accelerating AI workloads at scale with microsecond latency and exabyte capacity. The platform unifies multiple storage protocols (S3, POSIX, NFS, CSI) and supports hybrid and multi-cloud deployments with a zero-copy architecture. It enables 10x faster AI model training with 93% GPU utilization and serves 11 of the Fortune 50 plus leading research organizations.

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage platform designed for enterprises that need complete control over their data infrastructure. Built for Kubernetes-native deployments across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments, it enables organizations to run their own S3-compatible storage without vendor lock-in. The software-defined architecture optimizes for AI/ML workloads, analytics, and large-scale data processing, with support for objects up to 50TB and deployment flexibility that traditional cloud storage cannot match.

Hammerspace is a metadata-driven data orchestration platform that sits above file and object storage systems, providing a unified global namespace for accessing unstructured data across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure. Rather than storing data itself, it acts as a software layer that enables enterprises to access files regardless of storage type, vendor, or location while optimizing performance for AI and HPC workloads. The platform automatically transitions data between high-performance Tier 0 storage during compute-intensive operations and cost-efficient object storage during idle periods, eliminating GPU idle time caused by data bottlenecks.