| Acquired by | VMware |
| Price | $1.26B |
| Date | 7/12 |
| Website | nicira.com |
| Blog | nicira.com/blog |
| @nicira | |
| Category | Network/Hosting |
| Phone | 650-473-9777 |
| info@nicira.com | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Description | Network Controls |
| TOTAL | $39.5M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $39.5M |
| Series A, 6/09 Peter Thorpe | $575k |
| Series B, 1/10 Ben Horowitz SV Angel | $9M |
| Series A, 1/10 | $3.89M |
| Series C, 2/11 Lightspeed Venture Partners New Enterprise Associates Andreessen Horowitz | $26M |
Nicira Networks is accelerating the transformation to cloud infrastructure by delivering software that virtualizes the network and enables elastic, scale-out data centers.
The company was founded by networking research leaders from Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley, and is led by proven entrepreneurs in networking, security and virtualization.