Company name:
CAEVES (CAEVES Technology, Inc.)
HQ and offices:
HQ-Bedminster NJ; EMEA- Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands; APAC – Pune, India
Website:
caeves.com
Date founded:
January 2025
Founders and leaders:
CAEVES represents decades of combined knowledge and experience from a team intimately familiar with the challenges of data management. The principles and approaches we use were developed over years of innovation, delivering the best possible experience for our customers.
Shirish Phatak, founder and CEO
LinkedIn profile
Shirish founded several companies and advised that they were acquired, to name a few Tacit Networks acquired by Packeteer and then eventually Symantec, Velocious Networks by Akamai, and Talon Storage most recently by NetApp. Shirish is a technology and engineering executive with experience in the areas of product delivery, technology strategy, market analysis from a technology perspective. He has substantial expertise in bringing new products to the market and adapting existing products to suit market conditions.
Jaap van Duijvenbode, founder and VP, product management and customer experience
LinkedIn profile
Jaap is an experienced business leader and technologist, delivering pragmatic, structured approaches that help customers, partners, and global alliances unlock the full potential of their data estate. His expertise includes product management, building C- and D-level relationships with IT executives, advising on cloud and datacenter transformation strategies. Jaap was apart of the Packeteer/Blue Coat acquisition, and Talon Storage led acquisition by NetApp.
Andrew Mullen, founder, SV, global sales & alliances
LinkedIn profile
Andrew has been a visionary global sales executive with experience transforming cloud, SaaS, and data storage startups into global enterprises through high-performance sales, alliance, and go-to-market strategies. Held senior leadership and was a significant contributor at Tacit Networks, Expand Networks, Velocious Networks, and Talon Storage all acquired under Andrew’s tenure. Proven record delivering 3X–20X investor returns, leading multimillion-dollar acquisitions, and launching Azure-integrated solutions that redefine enterprise data management.
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Financial funding:
Privately Funded
Employees numbers:
25
Revenue:
Private
Technology:
Our Mission: Help organizations to optimize storage costs while bringing decades of “dark data” to life
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Enterprise data grows relentlessly, yet 80% of it sits cold and inactive. Despite this reality, IT departments continue paying premium prices to store petabytes on platforms designed for performance, not longevity. Traditional archives offer cost relief but create “dark data”, files effectively lost once stored. This structural inefficiency has become one of the largest hidden taxes in enterprise IT, forcing organizations into a false choice: pay too much or lose access.
CAEVES was built to attack this problem head-on. We refuse the trade-off between cost and access. By treating storage as an economics problem rather than a performance race, we deliver cost-optimized, deep, searchable infrastructure that preserves visibility, control, and future readiness. Archives become usable assets, not compliance graveyards. Data remains indexed and AI-ready.
Organizations cut costs up to 70% without sacrificing access or options. In a market full of abstraction and over-promising, we’re deliberately direct: smarter economics, preserved access, and customer sovereignty. Always.
Products:
CAEVES delivers cost-optimized, deep and searchable storage for enterprise file data, solving the economics problem of rising storage costs. Built natively for Microsoft Azure, our software-based solution slashes TCO by up to 70% by moving inactive “cold” data off premium tiers into deep object storage.
Unlike traditional archives that create “dark data”, CAEVES keeps your files accessible and indexed. It provides AI-ready infrastructure, integrating seamlessly with Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot so your historical intellectual property remains a visible, strategic asset.
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Deployed entirely within your own secure Microsoft Azure tenant, CAEVES preserves data sovereignty and security principles while ensuring your data is always ready for the future.
Release and Roadmap:
CAEVES combines the economics of cloud object storage, the usability of modern file systems, and the requirements of AI-ready data access into a single platform that operates within the customer’s own Microsoft Azure tenant. CAEVES software-defined storage solution delivers a high-performance file system interface to Azure Object Storage and allows organizations to dramatically reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 70% through data caching, tiering, and lifecycle management policies, while preserving continuous accessibility, security, and data governance. The analytics and metadata enrichment capabilities in CAEVES form the foundation for content classification, data sensitivity scoring, and data lineage tracking. Storage optimizer today; data intelligence platform for tomorrow.
The CAEVES roadmap includes a shift from reactive archiving to Autonomous Storage operations and cost optimization management. This move ensures that customers are never paying for “performance” storage it doesn’t use, while ensuring “hot” data is always ready when needed.
The CAEVES product roadmap includes a minor release in September 2026 and a major version in Q1 2027, featuring an Enterprise Management Plane with ROI dashboard, policy management, compliance and governance tools and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server enabling integration with Claude, Gemini, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Foundry. The long-term vision is to position CAEVES as the intelligence and context layer for enterprise data estates within the Azure ecosystem, evolving from a storage optimizer into a full data intelligence platform, with autonomous tiering operations and deep integration with multiprotocol file access, Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Model Context Protocol as the primary enterprise interface for knowledge workers.
Pricing model and price:
Pricing Model, Tiered, Built for Growth
Our pricing model combines the flexibility of monthly billing with the strategic commitment of an annual agreement, so you can scale on your terms without compromising budget efficiency.
Customers subscribe to a 12-month contract, can be billed annually, quarterly and even billed monthly based on the maximum capacity used in that billing cycle. This means customers can ramp up or down as needed, with billing that adapts to your real-world usage, perfect for unpredictable workloads and dynamic scaling. CAVEVES designed a tiered structure that rewards scale, ensuring your total cost of ownership (TCO) improves as your data footprint grows:
| Storage Capacity Tier | Price (USD/GB/Month) | Notes |
| 0–5 TB | $0.00 | Free tier – great for pilots & testing |
| 6–50 TB | $0.03 | Ideal for smaller teams or departments |
| 51–200 TB | $0.025 | Scales with efficiency |
| 201–1000 TB | $0.02 | Designed for mid-size enterprise scale |
| 1001 TB and beyond | $0.01 | Enterprise-grade, hyperscale economics |
By combining dynamic usage billing with volume-based discounts, our model ensures that customers are never locked into a static plan, and always positioned to optimize costs as you grow.
GTM:
The CAEVES Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is built on a “Microsoft-First” philosophy, positioning the CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage and CAEVES Copilot Connector as essential components of a customer’s Azure data estate. By utilizing the Microsoft Marketplace as the primary commercial engine, you streamline procurement while aligning with Microsoft’s own internal sales incentives.
CAEVES leverages these three distinct motions:
CAEVES Marketplace Leverage
|
Motion |
Primary Mechanism |
Key Benefit |
|
Direct |
Private Offers / MACC |
Speed to contract; Found money via Azure credits. |
|
Indirect |
CSP / Multiparty Offers |
Exponential reach; leverages existing partner trust. |
|
ISV Co-Sell |
Seller Incentives (Incentivized) |
Microsoft AEs actively hunting for CAEVES deals. |
Customers:
CAEVES is provisioning on average 3-4 customers per month
Target market:
Organization Type
Buying Centers
Technical Profile
Competition:
Target Opportunity
Data silos in Azure, AWS of Google Cloud hyperscalers
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