Paula Long co-founded storage provider EqualLogic, acquired by Dell for $1.4 billion in 2008.
French entrepreneurs Christophe Camborde and Yannick Lacastaigneratte, who founded cloud storage storage Steek and sold it to F-Secure for close to $40 million in 2009, are apparently at it again.
Michael launched web hosting firm Fasthosts, which reported a turnover of £20m and a profit of £5m before its sale in 2006, and later founded cloud storage business Livedrive.
Conlon most recently founded cloud storage service Humyo, which sold for $18 million to Trend Micro in 2010.
In 2001, Long co-founded another storage company called EqualLogic, which was sold to Dell in 2008 for a whopping $1.4 billion.
More recently, he founded Zambeel, a storage company that has since closed.
In the six years since Knewton was founded, online data storage has advanced so far that Liu says the firm now knows better than anyone how well its students are progressing.
Hughes, whose father founded the self-storage company Public Storage, said he was attracted to the "Libertarian mindset [of] less government, less interference, more freedom".
Most recently, Accel led a $12 million Series B in E8 Storage, an early-stage enterprise storage company founded in Tel Aviv.
When the venture firm Accel Partners invested in Facebook in 2005, it brought to the company as a consultant Jeff Rothschild, who had earlier founded Veritas Software, a data storage management company.
William Cargill, the son of a Scottish sea captain, founded the Iowa grain storage business after the Civil War.
