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Mariko Systems Raises $7.5 Million First Round
by Emily Westhafer
BOSTON -- Mariko Systems, which is developing scalable storage products for enterprise database protection, backup, and data analysis, has raised $7.5 million in its first round of funding, VentureWire has learned.
Marion Schouten, vice president of marketing and communications at investor Flagship Ventures, confirmed the round, which was co-led by Charles River Ventures.
Charles River invested $4.15 million and Flagship provided $3.35 million. Ms. Schouten declined to provide further details of the company, which she said was in stealth mode. Mariko executives could not be reached for comment.
In conjunction with the funding, Bill Strecker, managing director at Flagship Ventures, and Chris Baldwin, general partner at Charles River Ventures, have taken seats on Mariko's board.
Mariko Systems' co-founders both served at CLAM Associates (now Availant), which provided software for ensuring the availability of applications in an open systems environment. The software enabled applications and users to be transferred automatically to a second, geographically remote location in the event of a physical disruption at the main site.
Michael Rowan, co-founder and CTO, previously founded a StorageCom, a software company that performed database and disk replication, journaling, and snapshots with enterprise backup integration. He also worked at MangoSoft, a startup software company that delivers distributed file systems on a distributed shared-memory subsystem. He spent eight years as partner and chief architect at CLAM Associates.
Kevin Rodgers, co-founder and director of engineering, previously served as director of engineering at Conley Corp. After Conley was acquired by EMC, he was an architect in the PowerPath and Radiant groups at EMC. Previously, he served as director of engineering at CLAM Associates.
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