Actifio was a privately held information technology firm headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

[3] Purportedly, Actifio's products are able to reduce unnecessary duplication of application data and software requirements for its users.

[8] In 2012 Gartner recommended Actifio in their Cool Vendor report and said its products facilitated cloud-based and offsite start and computing without the need to build secondary data centers.

This firm, headed by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has also funded Facebook, Zynga, and Twitter.

After completing its Series C funding, Actifio had received a total of $57 million in venture capital.

This money came in the form of primary funding with no secondary liquidity for employees or earlier shareholders.

[19] Actifio clients included Time Warner Cable, Boston University Medical Campus, Navisite, the City of South Portland, Unilever, IBM, Netflix, and many other organizations[20] As of October 2012, Actifio had about 180 clients and its deals averaged a value of about $250,000.

[22] As of July 2014, there were about 400 Actifio clients worldwide, including both large multinationals and cloud service providers.

Actifio conducts joint research with IDC to understand the copy data problem in depth.

[29] In July 2014, Actifio introduced Resiliency Director, an automated disaster recovery tool.

Sungard Availability Services, a disaster recovery firm, was able to recover hundreds of virtual machines in less than 20 minutes during a test of Resiliency Director.

Later he founded Serano Systems, a fiber channel controller manufacturer that he sold to Vitesse Semiconductor.

[31][32] After leaving HP in 2008, Ashutosh became a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners, where he was an investor in information technology companies, and ultimately founded Actifio.