Gnodal
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| Private | |
| Industry | Networking hardware |
| Fate | Entered administration; some staff and IP bought by Cray |
| Founded | March 2007 |
| Defunct | October 2013 |
| Headquarters | Bristol, UK |
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Key people
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Eddie Minshull, Executive Chairman, Fred Homewoood, CTO, Tony Ford, COO, Mike Cartwright, CFO |
| Products | Switches |
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Number of employees
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51 (Peak) |
| Website | www.gnodal.com |
Gnodal was a computer networking company headquartered in Bristol, UK. The company designed and sold network switches for datacenter, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments. Gnodal's products were based on its own Peta ASIC, which was the basis of a family of 1RU and 2RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet low latency switches, including the GS7200 switch. Gnodal's products ran a Linux-based network operating system, GnoS OS), which was based on Aricent's ISS product.
Gnodal was founded in March 2007 by Fred Homewood, Tony Ford, Jon Beecroft, David Hewson and Ed Turner (all formerly of Quadrics), Matt Hatch joined the founding group in July 2007. The company was funded by this group until April 2008, then receiving £1.1m seed funding from Adrian Beecroft (former CIO of Apax Partners), NESTA, South West Ventures Fund and Finance South West Growth Fund (both managed at the time by YFM). Will Leonard (formerly at Xyratex) was appointed as a non-executive director and chairman by the investors at this time.
Dawn Capital (an ECF) joined the other funds in an A round of unspecified size completed in July 2009.
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