Weka CEO Liran Zvibel and Weka’s other co-founders, Maor Ben-Dayan and Omri Palmon, met while building the data storage startup XIV, which IBM acquired for $350 million in 2007.

WEKA, the data platform for AI, today announced that Hitachi Ventures led its recent round raising $73 million in funding, which brings the total amount raised to $140 million.

With this funding, Weka will augment its cash reserves from previous rounds and work towards scaling the business to meet the demand for AI infrastructure in the wake of the generative AI boom.

Founded in 2013, Weka provides a software-based distributed file system, WekaFS, to make data available on demand for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other compute ...

From SuperAI 2025: WEKA today unveiled a revolutionary advancement in AI data infrastructure with the debut of NeuralMesh™, a powerful new software-defined storage system featuring a dynamic ...