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DealMakers: Entrepreneur | Startups | Venture Capital


Simon Taylor On Raising $87 Million To Simplify Your Data Protection

April 13, 2021

Simon Taylor is one of the rising numbers of highly successful startup entrepreneurs to be coming out of the UK’s growing startup scene. His startup, HYCU has raised $89M in funding from top-tier investors like Acrew Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.

In this episode, you will learn:

* How HYCU is reengineering data services for businesses like yours
* The future of data services
* How to get in touch with Simon

Alejandro Cremades · EP 323 Simon Taylor On Raising $87 Million To Simplify Your Data Protection
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About Simon Taylor:
Simon Taylor has more than 15 year's experience in go-to-market strategy development, product marketing and channel sales management for the tech industry. An MBA graduate, Simon Taylor has worked with leading companies such as Comtrade Group, Forrester Research, Putnam Investments and Omgeo.

Currently, Simon Taylor is the CEO, HYCU, Inc., a pioneering enterprise software company specializing in data backup, recovery and monitoring for multi-cloud environments. Prior to HYCU, held several senior executive leadership positions within Comtrade Software and Comtrade Group.

In Jan. 2016, Simon Taylor led the Citrix acquisition of Comtrade’s management packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The MPs provide Citrix users with comprehensive, end-to-end monitoring, delivering single pane of glass visibility into the entire Citrix desktop virtualization, network and mobility environment. Comtrade and Citrix also signed an on-going product development and support agreement.

Simon Taylor received an MBA in international business from IE (Instituto de Empresa) Business School and an undergraduate degree in operations technology from Northeastern University. Simon Taylor held both Series 6 and 63 licenses a...