Alluxio News & Press · Jun 2026
Alluxio announced an OCI-focused solution intended to maximize GPU utilization and reduce data bottlenecks for AI training and inference.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Alluxio is a San Mateo-based data acceleration platform with open-source roots that provides a transparent caching layer between compute and storage for AI and analytics workloads, helping teams accelerate data access without moving data or rewriting code.
Primary product
Alluxio AI
Founded
2015
Headquarters
San Mateo, California, United States
Team size
60-70
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Data infrastructure / AI data acceleration / distributed caching
Offices
San Mateo, California, United States
Foster City, California, United States
Beijing, China
Business model
open-source community edition
enterprise subscriptions
SLA-based technical support
professional services
Funding
Stage
Series C
Total raised
$73.7M
Latest round
Series C · Nov 2021
Latest amount
$50M
Nov 2021
Apr 2020 · Volcanics Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz
Jan 2019 · Seven Seas Partners
Mar 2015 · Andreessen Horowitz
People & investors
Leadership
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Co-founder, VP of Marketing
VP, Open Source / Founding Engineer
Senior Vice President Business Development and Strategic Alliances
VP of Product & Engineering
VP of Marketing
Chief of Staff
Head of Operations
Work & culture
Collaborative, innovative, and flexibility-oriented, with public signals emphasizing work-life balance, growth, and hands-on impact.
Benefits
flexible vacation
medical coverage
dental coverage
vision coverage
commute reimbursement
paid parental leave
daily lunch
daily dinner
weekly boba
snacks and drinks
Product & market
Pricing
Free community edition plus paid enterprise subscriptions with SLA-based support and custom terms.
Differentiators
- —Distributed cache sits between compute and storage, avoiding data migration
- —No code rewrites required for common AI and analytics workflows
- —Storage/cloud agnostic across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments
- —Unified namespace across multiple storage systems
- —POSIX, S3 API, and Python access paths
- —AI-native optimizations for model training, serving, and inference cold starts
- —Enterprise features for multi-tenancy, governance, and higher scale
- —Transparent caching to improve GPU utilization and reduce cloud costs
Technology
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Ray
Spark
Presto
Trino
Kubernetes
S3
POSIX/FUSE
HDFS
NFS
GCS
Azure Blob
Apache Ranger
OPA
etcd
Python SDK
Customers
Dyna Robotics
Fireworks AI
Blackout Power Trading
Competitors
Lustre
Ceph
Weka
Databricks
Dremio
Starburst
Trino
Presto
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$20M-$30M
Estimated monthly visits
2.5K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
Latest news
Alluxio News & Press · Aug 2025
Alluxio reported Q2 FY2026 results and highlighted Enterprise AI 3.7, including sub-millisecond time-to-first-byte latency for AI workloads.
Intellyx / Alluxio · Jun 2025
Alluxio was named one of Intellyx's 2025 Digital Innovator Award winners.
Blocks & Files · May 2025
Third-party coverage summarized Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.6, including faster model distribution, checkpoint writing, and multi-tenancy support.
Alluxio News & Press · May 2025
Alluxio announced Enterprise AI 3.6 with model distribution and checkpoint-writing improvements for AI workloads.
Jobs and careers at Alluxio
9 jobs at Alluxio
Sr. Staff Software Engineer – Distributed Systems
On-site
Foster City, California
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer - Distributed System Development
On-site
Foster City, California
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Staff Software Engineer - Distributed System Development
On-site
Foster City, California
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Engineering Manager
On-site
Foster City, California
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Staff Software Engineer-Distributed System Development（Beijing/Shanghai）
On-site
China
11mo ago
On-site
Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Distributed System Development (Beijing)
On-site
Beijing
2y ago
On-site
Full-time
Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Beijing)
On-site
China
6y ago
On-site
Full-time