Canvas leads $22 mln funding of cloud infrastructure provider Platform9

Sunnyvale, California-based Platform9, a provider of hybrid cloud management, announced it has raised $22 million in Series C funding. Canvas Ventures led the round, which included Hewlett Packard Enterprise and existing investors Redpoint Ventures and Menlo Ventures. As part of the round, Canvas Partner Gary Little has joined the board. Platform9 has now raised $36.5 million in total funding since it was founded in 2013 by a team of former VMware engineers.