Cohesity
Cohesity sells enterprise data protection and AI-powered analytics software. It has raised $960M and employs 7,819 people.
The growth story
Cohesity grew from 1,726 to 7,819 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $960M along the way, most recently a Series Unknown in April 2025.
About
Cohesity provides a cloud platform that helps large companies secure, manage, and analyze their data. Its software is used for cyberattack recovery and extracting business insights from enterprise data.
The company has raised $960M from investors including Accel and Battery Ventures. It employs 7,819 people, with a median tenure of just one year suggesting rapid team growth or turnover.
Founders and leadership
Sales is the largest function with 155 employees. Leadership comes from enterprise software backgrounds, with the top talent sources being legacy storage and security firms.
The Cohesity org chart
Sanjay Poonen (CEO and President) leads 58 mapped leaders with 10 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 2,123 (+4% YoY), Sales 1,272 (+19% YoY), Information Technology 572 (+11% YoY), Business Development 213 (+4% YoY), Customer Success and Support 167 (-8% YoY), Operations 151 (+14% YoY).
Talent flow
Cohesity hires heavily from competitors like Veritas (148 alumni) and Dell EMC (83). Alumni often move to other data management firms like CommVault (26) and Rubrik (21).
Most common previous employers of Cohesity staff: Veritas Technologies (148), Dell EMC (83), VMware (61), Symantec Software Pvt (52), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (40), Oracle (39). Former Cohesity employees most often moved to CommVault (26), Nutanix (23), Rubrik (21), VAST Data (14), SentinelOne (13), Google (12).
Alumni worth knowing
The Cohesity mafia
24 alumni have founded companies, including Surf AI (71 staff) and JetStream Security (69 staff), showing strong entrepreneurial spillover from the data security space.
24Jatheen (AJ) A., was Vice President Of Engineering until 2022Ganesha Shanmuganathan, was Principal Engineer / Senior Technical Director until 2020James Pham, was Product Manager in Cloud & SaaS until 2021Vasudevan Nagendra, was Engineering Leader (Data Security, AI/ML) until 2023Apurv Gupta, was Chief Technology Officer until 2023
Varun Rao, was Sr. Technical Account Manager until 2021
Chris Haroun, was Board Observer until 2016
Lara Pascoe, was Head of Marketing (Australia & New Zealand) until 2020
Arijit Das, was Member of Technical Staff until 2019
Tiffany To, was VP Marketing, Advisor until 2016
James Dockery, was Enterprise Sales until 2025
Sahil Dhull, was Senior Member of Technical Staff until 2024
Arthur Dell, was Regional Field CTO & Technology Leader until 2026
Matt Ammentorp, was Sales Director Major Accounts until 2020
Amitav Chakravartty, was Director Of Engineering - Marketplace & Apps Platform until 2023
William A. Burns, was Vice President, Vertical Markets until 2022
Lakshya Gupta, was Member of Technical Staff until 2025
Sofyen MARZOUGUI, was Account Technical Advisor until 2025
Seun Akinniranye, was Enterprise Business Development until 2025
Jill Terese Partridge, was Head of Philanthropy until 2023
Joe O'Connell Jr., was Account Manager until 2026
Sathish Murthy, was Systems Engineering Manager/Director until 2025Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 56% direct, 14% search, 4% social, 17% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Cohesity: Cloud Computing (1,650), Management (1,372), Linux (1,316), Virtualization (1,261), Python (Programming Language) (1,247), Leadership (1,245), Storage (1,174), Communication (1,052).
Where the team actually sits
Cohesity people are concentrated in Maharashtra, India (95), Karnataka, India (62), California, United States (45), San Francisco Bay Area (22).
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.90 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.70 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.60 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 4.30 / 5
Frequently asked
Cohesity has 7,819 employees as of September 2026.
Cohesity has raised $960M in total, most recently a Series Unknown round in April 2025.
Cohesity was founded in 2013 by Mohit Aron.
Sanjay Poonen (CEO and President) sits at the top of Cohesity's reporting structure, with 10 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Cohesity staff are Veritas Technologies (148 people), Dell EMC (83 people), VMware (61 people).
Former Cohesity employees most often move to CommVault (26), Nutanix (23), Rubrik (21).
At least 24 companies have a founder who previously worked at Cohesity, including Surf AI, JetStream Security, Bedrock Data.
The most common skills among Cohesity staff are Cloud Computing, Management, Linux, Virtualization, Python (Programming Language).
Cohesity staff are concentrated in Maharashtra, India (95), Karnataka, India (62), California, United States (45).
Cohesity has about 2,123 people in Engineering, up 4% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Cohesity has about 1,272 people in Sales, up 19% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 574 current and 828 former Cohesity profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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