Nvidia, HP Invest In Israeli-Founded File Storage Startup WekaIO

California-based startup WekaIO, which has an office in Tel Aviv, announced Tuesday it has raised $31.7 million in a Series C funding round, through new and existing investors that include Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Mellanox Technologies, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.

To date, the company has raised $66.7 million.

WekaIO says it will use the money to support its international business expansion and marketing, with added investments to engineering and sales teams.

The company, founded in 2013 by Israeli entrepreneurs Liran Zvibel and Omri Palmon, develops file storage systems for data-heavy applications. The firm calls its flagship product, the WekaIO Matrix, the fastest shared parallel file system.