Cloud management startup Aviatrix Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised a $40 million funding round led by Charles River Ventures to launch a new growth push.

Five-year-old Aviatrix will use the capital to add staff across its sales, product development, customer support and other core teams. The investment comes about two months after the startup moved into a bigger office in Santa Clara, California, to accommodate planned workforce expansions.

Aviatrix provides a suite of networking and security services for enterprise cloud environments. The toolkit works across all the major infrastructure-as-a-service-service platforms, which allows companies that use multiple clouds to centralize management operations in one interface instead of handling the administration of each deployment separately.  

Aviatrix provides a “common architecture across all different clouds,” Chief Executive Officer Steve Mullaney detailed last week during an interview on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio (below). “So whether you’re just using one cloud or multiple, doesn’t matter, it’s the same set of security and networking services.”

Those services layer over the native features of the cloud platforms on which Aviatrix’s software suite is deployed. The Aviatrix Gateway, one component of the suite, enables companies to link their off- and on-premises infrastructure, while the Scale-out Enterprise Encryption Service scrambles data traffic to protect it from prying eyes. There’s also a firewall and a virtual private network tool that enables remote employees to access work applications via a secure connection.

Aviatrix has paired its core feature set with troubleshooting tools that allow administrators to diagnose potential problems in a deployment. The software automatically generates error reports for connectivity issues and records security-related events in logs, which can be exported to external analytics tools for closer inspection.

The startup’s broad feature set has helped it win some big-name customers. Aviatrix’s software is used by information technology teams at Netflix Inc., VMware Inc. and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., among others.

Aviatrix has raised over $76 million in outside funding to date. Besides CRV, today’s $40 million round also saw the participation of returning backers Formation 8, Ignition Partners and Liberty Global Ventures.

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