Panzura is a privately held American software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2008. The company was acquired in 2020 by Chicago-based private equity firm Profile Capital Management. Panzura employs approximately 200-300 individuals. While specific revenue figures vary across sources, estimated annual revenue is in the tens of millions of dollars, with the company reporting significant growth in recent years.
Panzura provides hybrid-cloud data management software and services for the enterprise market. Its core offerings include Panzura CloudFS, a hybrid cloud file services platform that functions as a global file system, and Panzura Data Services for multi-cloud management and data analysis. The company's solutions aim to help organizations access, manage, analyze, and store unstructured data, offering features like global file synchronization, ransomware detection (Panzura Detect and Rescue), and AI intelligence (Panzura Nexus) to enable secure, real-time collaboration and data protection across distributed environments.
The company's patent litigation posture indicates it is an operating company primarily defending against intellectual property assertions. Panzura has been a defendant in all three tracked cases and has not initiated any patent infringement suits as a plaintiff. The cases have been litigated in the District of Delaware, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Panzura's notable cases include Realtime Data LLC v. Reduxio Systems, Inc. et al. and Realtime Data LLC v. Array Networks Inc. et al. In these actions, Panzura was named as a defendant alongside other companies by Realtime Data LLC, a known patent assertion entity (NPE) that holds a portfolio centered on data compression and accelerated storage technologies. Panzura was also a co-defendant in a petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court by Realtime Data LLC concerning data compression patents, which the Supreme Court denied. Panzura's product offerings include features like deduplication and compression, aligning with the subject matter of the patents asserted against it.