ScaleFlux Inc
Software-defined storage controller that integrates computation and storage to reduce data center costs
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- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Headquarters
- San Jose, CA
- Founded
- 2014
- Latest Form D
- $21.6M, Sep 2020
- Total capital
- $51.1M
- Federal grants
- $150K
- 1 award · 2015
- Rank in peer group#1 of 27
- Private capital raised
- $50.9M
- 4 Form D · last Sep 2020
- 73 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- 26
- 14 pending · first 2020
- Rank in peer group#6 of 27
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 4th filing$21.6M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 3rd filing$17.3M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$10M
- Federal grantNSF · Phase I · SBIR Phase I: Radically Improving Data Center Cost Effectiveness through Virtualized Convergence of Data Processing and Storage$150K
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$2M
Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.
Standing among 27 peers
Line = medianSemiconductors · Software
- Federal grants#1 · top 4%
- Granted patents#6 · top 22%
Cumulative measures favor older companies. Rankings describe position today, not outcome. Below the median, ranks show as a band rather than a number.
Founders and team
Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants- Tong ZhangResearcherDirectorLinked by 5 patents
- Hao ZhongResearcherExecutive Officer, DirectorLinked by $150K in grants as PI
- Lei FuDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Li-Kou LiuDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Shirley FangDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Zhijian ZhangDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
USPTO · 26 granted of 40- New patentReducing Energy Comsumption Of Self-managed Dram ModulesUSPTOUS 12,748,537
- GrantedSelf-managed Dram Modules With Built-in Adaptive Data CompressionUSPTOUS 12,737,114
- GrantedSelf-managed Dram Modules With Built-in Data Compression And Tiered CachingUSPTOUS 12,681,639
Show all 40 patent records
- Reducing Energy Comsumption Of Self-managed Dram ModulesSep 29, 2026 · US 12,748,537Granted
- Self-managed Dram Modules With Built-in Adaptive Data CompressionSep 15, 2026 · US 12,737,114Granted
- Self-managed Dram Modules With Built-in Data Compression And Tiered CachingJul 14, 2026 · US 12,681,639Granted
- Domain-specific Low-cost Dram SystemJul 2, 2026 · Application 19001679Pending
- Storage-memory Fusion Drive With Direct Processor-storage Access Data PathJun 9, 2026 · US 12,650,791Granted
- Self-managed Dram Modules With Built-in Data Compression And Tiered CachingMay 7, 2026 · Application 18937289Pending
- Burst Error Correction For Reed-solomon CodesMay 5, 2026 · US 12,619,492Granted
- Self-managed Dram Modules With Built-in Adaptive Data CompressionApr 9, 2026 · Application 18905527Pending
- Speed And Energy Efficiency Of Self-manager Dram Modules With Built-in CompressionApr 9, 2026 · Application 18910662Pending
- Hybrid Error Correction System Design For Multimode Solid-state DrivesMar 10, 2026 · US 12,572,414Granted
- Reducing Energy Comsumption Of Self-managed Dram ModulesMar 10, 2026 · US 12,572,286Granted
- Solid-state Drives With Compression-enabled Dynamic Multi-bit Per Cell ConfigurationNov 6, 2025 · Application 18655649Pending
- Multimode Solid-state Drive With Adaptive Address Mapping Table CompactionSep 11, 2025 · Application 18595694Pending
- Solid-state Drive With Multimode Compression And Error CorrectionJun 24, 2025 · US 12,339,745Granted
- Reducing Energy Comsumption Of Self-managed Dram ModulesDec 26, 2024 · Application 18823061Pending
- Reducing Energy Comsumption Of Self-managed Dram ModulesOct 8, 2024 · US 12,112,049Granted
- Techniques To Enable Stateful Decompression On Hardware Decompression Acceleration EnginesSep 19, 2023 · US 11,762,698Granted
- Enhancing Solid-state Storage Device Speed Performance Through Stream-aware Garbage CollectionJul 12, 2022 · US 11,386,002Granted
- Low-cost Address Mapping For Storage Devices With Built-in Transparent CompressionJun 16, 2022 · Application 17120386Pending
- Realizing High-speed And Low-latency Raid Across Multile Solid-state Storage Device With Host-side FtlMay 31, 2022 · US 11,347,586Granted
- Techniques To Enhance Storage Devices With Built-in Transparent Compression For Mitigating Out-of-space IssuesMay 31, 2022 · US 11,347,422Granted
- Using In-storage Computation To Improve The Performance Of Hash Join For Database And Data AnalyticsApr 12, 2022 · US 11,301,476Granted
- Integrating Host-side Storage Device Management With Host-side Non-volatile MemoryMar 1, 2022 · US 11,262,942Granted
- Reducing Multi-stream Data Write Collision In Solid-state Data Storage DevicesApr 13, 2021 · US 10,976,957Granted
- Solid-state Storage Device Speed Performance And Endurance Through Host-side Data Classification And Embedded Write CachingMar 16, 2021 · US 10,949,126Granted
- Enhancing The Speed Performance And Endurance Of Solid-state Data Storage Devices With Embedded In-line Encryption EnginesMar 4, 2021 · Application 16558694Pending
- Realizing Host-assisted Device-level Data Deduplication On Solid-state Data Storage Devices With Embedded Non-volatile MemoryFeb 16, 2021 · US 10,922,003Granted
- Using Hybrid-software/hardware Based Logical-to-physical Address Mapping To Improve The Data Write Throughput Of Solid-state Data Storage DevicesJan 26, 2021 · US 10,901,889Granted
- Data Storage Efficiency Using Storage Devices With Variable-size Internal Data MappingOct 27, 2020 · US 10,817,417Granted
- Solid-state Storage Power Failure Protection Using Distributed Metadata CheckpointingOct 13, 2020 · US 10,802,727Granted
- Implementing In-storage Data Processing Across Multiple Computational Storage DevicesApr 23, 2020 · Application 16657033Pending
- Ensuring In-storage Data Atomicity And Consistency At Low CostApr 21, 2020 · US 10,628,066Granted
- Implementing Low Cost And Large Capacity Dram-based Memory ModulesApr 16, 2020 · Application 16596876Pending
- Enhancing Flash Translation Layer To Improve Performance Of Databases And FilesystemsApr 14, 2020 · US 10,620,846Granted
- Storage Infrastructure That Employs A Low Complexity EncoderApr 7, 2020 · US 10,613,797Granted
- Storage Infrastructure And Method For Exploiting In-storage Transparent Compression Using A Dummy File That Consumes Lba Storage Without Consuming Pba StorageMar 3, 2020 · US 10,579,539Granted
- I/o Performance Enhancement Of Solid-state Data Storage DevicesFeb 18, 2020 · US 10,564,895Granted
- Similarity-based Data Deduplication On Solid-state Storage Devices With Embedded Nonvolatile MemoryOct 10, 2019 · Application 16376008Pending
- Reducing solid state Storage device read tail latencyFeb 21, 2019 · Application 15998430Pending
- Hybrid Software-hardware Implementation Of Edit Distance SearchDec 13, 2018 · Application 16004090Pending
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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