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Vendia, a blockchain-based multi-cloud enterprise data sharing service, raises a $30M Series B led by NewView Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M

Vendia, a blockchain-based platform that makes it easier for businesses to share their code and data with partners across applications …

TechCrunch Frederic Lardinois

Context & Ripple Effects

Vendia's arc is a steady climb from niche bet to scaled platform: the company was founded by two former AWS executives to build a multi-cloud serverless platform, raised a $15.5M Series A led by Canvas Ventures for its serverless data-and-code sharing SaaS, and now adds a $30M Series B led by NewView Capital.

The new round brings total funding to $50M and hands the lead to a different investor than either prior round — NewView Capital rather than Neotribe or Canvas — signaling that outside capital is willing to underwrite a product whose core pitch is moving enterprise data sharing off any single cloud vendor.

First-order effects

  • NewView Capital takes the lead-investor seat from Canvas Ventures, with Baillie Gifford, Kleiner Perkins, and other existing backers participating per the relationships data, giving Vendia roughly triple its prior raised capital to scale the serverless SaaS.
  • Vendia's ex-AWS founding team now has the balance sheet to push its blockchain-based sharing product deeper into enterprises that run workloads across more than one hyperscaler.

Second-order effects

  • A funded third party sitting between clouds pressures AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud on data portability — the very vendors Vendia's founders left — since every partner integration built on Vendia is one less reason to stay inside a single provider's native sharing tools.
  • Enterprise buyers evaluating partner-data integrations gain a venture-backed alternative to bespoke point-to-point pipelines, shifting build-vs-buy math toward subscription platforms in this slice of the stack.

Third-order effects

  • If the pattern holds, enterprise data sharing consolidates around neutral cross-cloud layers rather than per-provider services, echoing how Vendia's own investor rotation — seed, Series A, Series B each led by different firms — tracks a market maturing from experiment to category.
  • Whether blockchain mechanics prove necessary or merely acceptable plumbing for this layer remains an open question the corpus does not resolve; what the funding sequence does establish is sustained institutional appetite for the multi-cloud positioning itself.

The trend: Ex-hyperscaler founders are raising successive, larger rounds to build neutral cross-cloud data layers, chipping at single-vendor lock-in as an investable thesis.