Turbonomic

Boston, MA Enterprise Software Acquired

Turbonomic (originally VMTurbo) is an application resource management (ARM) platform that continuously analyzes application demand and automatically allocates compute, storage and network resources across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to assure performance at minimum cost. Founded in 2009 in Boston, the company rebranded from VMTurbo to Turbonomic in August 2016 and was acquired by IBM in June 2021 to anchor IBM's AIOps and FinOps portfolio alongside Instana.

Acquired

Turbonomic has been acquired

Acquired by IBM June 17, 2021 Undisclosed (reported $1.5B-$2B)

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2009

Total Funding

$70.5M

5 rounds

Latest Valuation

$0.96B

February 7, 2019

Funding

Total raised $70.5M across 5 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series E

Date

February 7, 2019

Amount

Not disclosed

Valuation

$0.96B

Lead Investors

Not disclosed
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
February 7, 2019 Series E Not disclosed $0.96B Not disclosed
2015 Series D $50M General Atlantic
2014 Series C $13.5M Bain Capital Ventures

Leadership

  • Ben Nye

    CEO (at acquisition)

  • Shmuel Kliger

    Co-Founder & President

  • Yuri Rabover

    Co-Founder

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • Densify

    Cloud and container resource optimization platform focused on right-sizing workloads across AWS, Azure and GCP.

  • VMware Aria Operations

    Broadcom-owned hybrid cloud operations and capacity management suite (formerly vRealize Operations).

  • Datadog

    Observability and cloud cost management platform increasingly overlapping with ARM use cases.

  • Apptio (Cloudability)

    IBM-owned FinOps and cloud cost optimization platform; complementary but overlapping with Turbonomic on cost optimization.

  • CloudHealth (Broadcom)

    Multi-cloud cost and operations management platform, originally VMware.

  • Spot by NetApp

    Cloud workload automation and cost optimization platform owned by NetApp.

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