CtrlS secures Rs. 2.5 Billion Funding for National Expansion
CtrlS, India's only Datacenter with the
capability to provide
99.995% uptime SLA, the highest in the datacenter industry,
today announced that it
has successfully raised Rs. 2.5 Billion from a consortium of
Indian Banks.
Mr. P Sridhar Reddy, CMD CtrlS said," We have
been experiencing
exponential growth over the last year and hence we are
building additional capacity
to sustain this growth. Our new green datacenters will be the
finest in the
world".
"We are delighted to have achieved financial closure for Rs.
2.5 Billion in a
challenging financial market. These funds will be used by
CtrlS for building new
state of the art Rated 4 datacenters in Mumbai, Delhi and
other major cities", said
Mr. Prabhakar Reddy, CFO, CtrlS.
CtrlS received funding from Allahabad Bank, Indian Overseas
Bank, Oriental Bank of
Commerce, Andhra Bank, Bank of Baroda, Corporation Bank, Dena
Bank, Tamilnad
Mercantile Bank and State Bank of Hyderabad. In addition to
this, the promoters had
already raised Rs. 250 Crore of equity capital previously.
In the recently held consortium meeting for joint
documentation, the bankers said,
"CtrlS has a very strong value proposition coupled with a
sound business model. This
gave us the confidence to fund their national expansion. We
are confident that they
would be building world class datacenters for their customers.
"