Alluxio has extended its Series B financing to $15.5 million, co-led by new investor Volcanics Ventures and existing investor a16z, with participation from technology entrepreneurs Isilon Founder Sujal Patel and YY Founding CTO Tony Zhao, and existing investor Seven Seas Partners. This brings the total amount of funding raised to date to $23 million.

During the past year, Alluxio announced two major releases of its Data Orchestration Platform powering multi-cloud analytics and AI.

Alluxio strengthened its partnerships with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud, by making its Data Orchestration Platform available in the Amazon AWS Marketplace.

Formed strategic OEM partnership with Starburst Data, the Presto company, to offer a bundled solution that provides its users with exceptional performance and multi-cloud capabilities for interactive analytic workloads.

Hosted Inaugural ‘Data Orchestration Summit,’ bringing together practitioners and thought leaders at the intersection of cloud, AI, and data.

Joined Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation to help scale and accelerate the popular distributed SQL query engine Presto.

Alluxio continues to attract new customers and expand existing customer deployments around the globe. In the last six months, the company has added tens of new production deployments including Alibaba, EA, Nielsen, Roblox, Ryte, Tencent, VIPShop, Walmart, Walkme and WeRide.