Broadcom vs Druva

Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. In 1995, the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles, office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.

Druva is a company providing converged data protection, bringing datacenter-class availability, and governance to the mobile workforce. The company is privately held and is backed by Nexus Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Tenaya Capital. Druva was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in India, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore. Druva raised $5M in Series A investments from Sequoia Capital India and IAN in March 2010.