Battery Ventures completes $8m Series A investment in data storage company GreenBytes
15th September 2009
US-based investment house, Battery Ventures has completed an $8m Series A investment in Rhode Island, US-based, GreenBytes, a developer of optimised data storage appliances founded in 2007.

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