Pure Storage, Inc. is an American publicly traded technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States.
[7] In May 2013, the venture capital arm of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), In-Q-Tel, made an investment in Pure Storage for an un-disclosed amount.
[9] The following year, in 2014, Pure Storage raised $225 million in a series F funding round, valuating the company at $3 billion.
[22][23] Pure Storage filed a notification of its intent to go public with the Securities Exchange Commission in August 2015.
[27] In 2017 (2018 fiscal year), Pure Storage was profitable for the first time[28] and surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue.
[29] In Nov 2024, Pure Storage was one of the investors in the AI oriented cloud provider CoreWeave's secondary share sale.
[30][31] In August 2018, Pure Storage made its first acquisition with the purchase of a data deduplication software company called StorReduce,[32] for $25 million.
[33] In April the following year, they announced a definitive agreement for an undisclosed amount to acquire Compuverde, a software-based file storage company.
[43][44] In 2024, PureStorage suffered a data breach and extortion attempt as part of the 2024 Snowflake mass hacking campaign.