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Cohesity raises $250 million

Hyperconverged secondary storage company Cohesity has raised $250 million in a Series D funding round. The investment was led by the SoftBank Vision Fund, with participation from Cisco Investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, along with early investor Sequoia Capital.

This round brings total equity raised to $410 million by Cohesity.

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