Minjar
Hosted infrastructure tools and services.
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Minjar was a cloud solutions provider established in 2012, headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The company was founded by Vijay Rayapati, Anand Anand, and Aparna Sharma, a team with deep experience in technology and enterprise services. Rayapati had a background in several startups, Anand previously served as a director of engineering at Amazon India, and Sharma had experience with Oracle. This collective expertise informed Minjar's mission to help enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs), and startups effectively utilize public cloud environments.
The firm operated primarily as a premier consulting partner for Amazon Web Services (AWS), offering services that included cloud strategy, implementation, management, and Big Data solutions. Minjar's business model was twofold, encompassing both consulting services and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product line. Its flagship product, Botmetric, was launched in 2014 as an intelligent cloud management platform. Botmetric provided customers with unified cost control, visibility, and security compliance for their workloads running in public clouds like AWS. The platform was designed to automate repetitive operational tasks, identify security risks, and optimize cloud spending, addressing critical pain points for organizations scaling their cloud infrastructure. Other solutions included SmartAssist Assurance and SmartAssist Managed Cloud.
Minjar demonstrated notable capital efficiency, raising a total of approximately $2 million in funding from investors including Blume Ventures, Emergent Ventures, and Contrarian Capital before its major milestone. In March 2018, the enterprise cloud computing leader Nutanix announced its acquisition of Minjar for a reported sum of around $50 million. The acquisition was driven by Nutanix's strategy to bolster its multi-cloud management capabilities. Minjar's technology, particularly Botmetric, was integrated into the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS to enhance automation, lifecycle management, and cost visibility across different cloud platforms, eventually being rolled out as Nutanix Beam.
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