MinIO
MinIO sells enterprise AI data infrastructure software used by 77% of Fortune 100 companies. The 220-person company has raised $126M, including a Series B in January 2022.
The growth story
MinIO grew from 43 to 220 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $126M along the way, most recently a Series B in January 2022.
About
MinIO provides software that manages data storage and memory layers for AI systems, spanning core, edge, and cloud environments. Its products handle tasks from AI inference memory to object storage, targeting enterprises building AI factories and intelligent applications.
The company has scaled to 220 employees and secured $126M in funding, with its last round being a Series B in early 2022. Its software is widely adopted among large enterprises, with 77% of Fortune 100 companies using its products.
Founders and leadership
Engineering dominates MinIO's workforce, making up 57 of its 220 employees. The company has a median employee tenure of 2 years, suggesting moderate turnover as it scales its technical team.
The MinIO org chart
Anand Babu Periasamy (Co-Founder, CEO) 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: Sales 45 (+55% YoY), Engineering 44 (-8% YoY), Business Development 24 (+41% YoY), Arts and Design 21 (+24% YoY), Marketing 15 (+15% YoY), Information Technology 9 (+50% YoY).
Talent flow
MinIO recruits heavily from enterprise tech firms, with 16 hires from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and 13 each from Red Hat and Pure Storage. Alumni most often move to Google, with 3 departures, followed by AI startup Cognition and storage firms NetApp and VAST Data.
Most common previous employers of MinIO staff: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (16), Red Hat (13), Pure Storage (13), Dell Technologies (11), Oracle (10), Google (10). Former MinIO employees most often moved to Google (3), Cognition (2), NetApp (2), VAST Data (2), Cloudera (2), Taghash (1).
Alumni worth knowing
The MinIO mafia
MinIO alumni have founded 10 companies, including AI infrastructure startup AkashX.ai (32 staff), developer tools firm Taghash (27 staff), and data platform Parseable (9 staff).
10Kris Inapurapu, was Chief Business Officer until 2024Nitish Tiwari, was Software Engineer until 2021Brendan Ashworth, was Software Engineering Intern until 2017Sid Rajaram, was Engineer until 2025Satish Ramakrishnan, was Executive until 2024
Sidhartha Mani, was Engineering until 2022
Brian Costa, was Field Chief Technology Officer until 2024
Frank Wessels, was Chief Technical Officer until 2020Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 46% direct, 44% search, 2% social, 0% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at MinIO: Cloud Computing (73), Software as a Service (SaaS) (68), Leadership (64), Management (63), Enterprise Software (63), Sales (56), Business Development (54), Project Management (48).
Where the team actually sits
MinIO people are concentrated in California, United States (41), San Francisco Bay Area (19), United States (5), New York, United States (5).
Search footprint
MinIO attracts about 3,799 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $41K a month if bought through ads. It gained 567 ranking keywords and lost 776 in the last period.
Frequently asked
MinIO has 220 employees as of September 2026.
MinIO has raised $126M in total, most recently a Series B round in January 2022.
MinIO was founded in 2014 by Anand Babu Periasamy, Garima Kapoor Ph.D, Harshavardhana ..
Anand Babu Periasamy (Co-Founder, CEO) sits at the top of MinIO's reporting structure, with 10 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current MinIO staff are Hewlett Packard Enterprise (16 people), Red Hat (13 people), Pure Storage (13 people).
Former MinIO employees most often move to Google (3), Cognition (2), NetApp (2).
At least 10 companies have a founder who previously worked at MinIO, including AkashX.ai, Taghash, Parseable.
MinIO attracts about 3,799 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $41K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among MinIO staff are Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Leadership, Management, Enterprise Software.
MinIO staff are concentrated in California, United States (41), San Francisco Bay Area (19), United States (5).
MinIO has about 45 people in Sales, up 55% over the past year, as of September 2026.
MinIO has about 44 people in Engineering, down 8% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 187 current and 102 former MinIO profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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