Plakar, a Paris-based startup specializing in data backup and recovery, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round to further develop its open-source platform. Investors in the round include Seedcamp, Kima Ventures, and Motier Ventures.
- Founded in 2024 by Julien Mangeard and Gilles Chehade, Plakar develops a modern, open-source data backup and recovery platform designed to simplify and secure long-term data protection.
- The platform includes Kloset, a purpose-built data engine that packages backups as immutable, self-contained, and queryable data assets. This allows for efficient deduplication, compression, encryption, and distribution across multiple storage targets, including local disks, cloud, and tape.
- Plakar’s platform is built for reliability and scalability, meeting the requirements of regulated industries and long-term retention environments, while remaining easy to deploy and use via CLI, API, and web interfaces.
- Its design enables engineers to quickly set up secure backups that are straightforward to browse, manage, and restore, reducing costs and recovery times without compromising security or data integrity.
Details of the deal
- The round was supported by Motier Ventures, Seedcamp, Kima Ventures, helloworld, Galion.exe, Irregular Expressions, OPRTRS CLUB, Purple, and Pareto Holdings.
"Plakar is pioneering a new era of data protection with its open-source backup & restore platform, designed to be user-friendly, secure, and cost-effective. Their innovative approach ensures that backups are not only reliable but also comprehensible and restorable, addressing long-standing challenges in the industry," Motier Ventures' team, commented on LinkedIn.
- Several business angels, including Olivier Pomel, Solomon Hykes, Alexandre Yazdi, Amirhossein Malekzadeh, and Pierre Betouin, joined the round.
- Plakar will use the fresh funding to grow its workforce, accelerate product development, enhance security features, grow its open-source community, and scale customer acquisition efforts.
