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VMware

SaaS B2B · Palo Alto, US · vmware.com

Virtualization and cloud-infrastructure software company (acquired by Broadcom).

Founders

Diane Greene (United States · ♀) — An engineer and naval-architecture-trained technologist, she co-founded VMware in 1998 with her husband and Stanford colleagues to commercialize virtualization research, serving as CEO.
Mendel Rosenblum (United States · ♂) — A Stanford CS professor whose research on virtual machine monitors became the technical foundation of VMware, which he co-founded in 1998.
Scott Devine (United States · ♂) — A Stanford researcher working on virtualization who co-founded VMware to commercialize the technology.
Edward Wang (United States · ♂) — A Stanford-affiliated engineer who joined the founding team of VMware in 1998.
Edouard Bugnion (Switzerland · ♂) — A Stanford PhD researcher on virtual machines, he co-founded VMware and built its early hypervisor technology before later founding Nuova Systems.

Date	Round	Amount
May 2022	Acquired by Broadcom Broadcom agreed to acquire VMware, a US virtualization/cloud software company, for about $61B (cash and stock).	$61B

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