Hammerspace acquired Rozo Systems/RozoFS, a scale-out file-system technology company. The transaction value was not publicly disclosed.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Hammerspace is a privately held data-infrastructure company founded in 2018 that provides a high-performance data platform for AI, HPC, analytics, and distributed workloads. Its software unifies unstructured data across existing storage systems, data centers, clouds, and edge environments, then orchestrates data to the compute resources that need it without requiring wholesale migration or rip-and-replace infrastructure.
Primary product
Hammerspace Data Platform, including Global Data Environment/global namespace, automated data orchestration, and Tier 0 storage for using GPU-server-local NVMe as high-performance shared storage.
Founded
2018
Headquarters
305 Main Street, Suite 300, Redwood City, California 94063, United States
Team size
150-200; Hammerspace stated that it had more than 200 employees worldwide in March 2026, while LinkedIn/Exa reported 172 employees.
Work style
Remote
Industry
Data Infrastructure and Analytics
Sub-industry
AI data platforms, distributed file systems, enterprise storage, HPC storage, and data orchestration
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series B / late-stage private growth
Total raised
$177M
Latest round
Series B strategic growth capital · Apr 2025
Latest amount
$100M
Series B strategic extension/investment participation
Feb 2026 · SK Square, through TGC Square
Series B strategic venture/growth round
Apr 2025 · Altimeter Capital
Series A / first institutional funding
Jul 2023 · Prosperity7 Ventures
David Flynn
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Business Officer
Douglas Fallstrom
Co-founder and SVP, Product and Operations
Molly Presley
SVP, Marketing
Eric Mehlum
SVP, Finance
Shannon Slamon
SVP, Human Resources
Sean Hiss
SVP, Chief of Staff
Co-founder and SVP, Customer Engineering
Chris Lisica
SVP, Customer Success
Chief Revenue Officer
The company presents itself as a globally distributed, engineering-led organization focused on Linux, storage, networking, AI infrastructure, and open standards. Careers materials emphasize remote collaboration, while company materials emphasize technically deep teams and customer-oriented execution. Hammerspace was named to Forbes' 2026 America's Best Startup Employers list.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public job postings provide meaningful compensation signals. A Senior Staff Software Engineer–NFS Protocol role listed a $140,000-$200,000 anticipated base salary range, and a Regional Sales Director role listed $300,000-$360,000 OTE. Actual compensation is described as dependent on experience, skills, internal equity, and budget.
Benefits
Pricing
Enterprise pricing is primarily capacity/data-under-management based and may be sold as subscription or perpetual licensing. Cloud marketplaces support usage-based PAYGO and BYOL models. AWS Marketplace lists PAYGO capacity pricing from $0.114/TB/hour for 10-99.9 TB down to $0.014/TB/hour for 100,000-100,000,000 TB. On-premises enterprise pricing is generally quote-based.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated monthly visits
21.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Hammerspace acquired Rozo Systems/RozoFS, a scale-out file-system technology company. The transaction value was not publicly disclosed.
SourceTechCrunch reported that the Series B valued Hammerspace at more than $500 million based on sources close to the company; the valuation was not announced by Hammerspace itself.
SourceHammerspace has discussed a potential IPO as a long-term strategy, but timing remains dependent on market conditions and is not a committed transaction.
SourceHammerspace · Apr 2026
Hammerspace reported that 2026 bookings were already nearly 14 times full-year 2025 bookings, citing adoption across enterprise, government, hyperscaler, neocloud, and sovereign-AI environments. It also reported gross retention above 95% and NPS of 71.
CRN · Mar 2026
Hammerspace introduced an AI Data Platform aligned with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform reference design, combining Hammerspace data orchestration with infrastructure intended for AI inference and distributed data environments. The company also discussed its SK Square investment and Secuvy partnership.
Hammerspace / SK Square · Feb 2026
SK Square announced a KRW 30 billion investment in Hammerspace through TGC Square, describing Hammerspace as a high-performance AI data-platform provider with customers including Meta. Hammerspace's CEO later characterized the investment as a continuation of the 2025 $100 million round.
TechCrunch · Apr 2025
Hammerspace announced a $100 million strategic venture round led by Altimeter Capital with participation from ARK Invest and other strategic investors. TechCrunch reported a valuation above $500 million and identified Meta and the Department of Defense among customers.
Business Wire / Hammerspace · Jan 2025
Hammerspace reported 10x year-over-year revenue growth in 2024, a 32% increase in customers, gross revenue retention above 95%, and net revenue retention above 330%. It highlighted deployments involving Meta, NSF, the Department of Defense, and Mathematic Studio.
13 jobs at Hammerspace