Sunlight closed a $6M Series A funding round, led by OpenOcean with participation from Robert Bosch Venture Capital.

Sunlight, a Cambridge, UK-based software developer, announced that it completed a funding raise of $6 million in series A capital round.

The money was raised from investors led by Finnish VC OpenOcean and including contributions from Robert Bosch Venture Capital.

Proceeds will be used to expand the company's commercial operations and footprint, particularly in the US market.

Sunlight, founded by CEO Julian Chesterfield, built an complete hyperconverged stack (HCI) that aims to make applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster compared to legacy virtualisation.

The stack is designed for high performance, small footprint and simplicity. It is centred around Sunlight NexVisor, a light-weight hypervisor optimised for the fastest flash storage (NVMe) and network hardware, while removing virtualisation overhead to achieve bare metal performance. The stack includes fully integrated software-defined storage and networking components, and a single pane of glass management tool to make it easy to manage hybrid deployments.

Enterprises that are already using NexVisor to accelerate high-performance applications include Splunk, Elastic Search and Cloudera. The company is partnered with distributors including Synnex in the US, Altos in APAC, and Boston in EMEA.