[1] Silk received $25 million in series D funding in June 2012 from Tenaya Capital and existing investors.

In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a series E round from Lazarus Hedge Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsui & Co.

It partnered with Tech Data[5] to offer customers inexpensive hardware to run their storage software on.

The Silk Platform decouples data from the cloud infrastructure, enabling workloads to be moved freely.

The Silk Platform is built on auto-scalable and symmetric active-active architecture that delivers performance across any workload profile, leveraging cloud native IaaS components.