About
Josh Coates began his career in distributed systems research at the University of California, Berkeley and Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center. Josh specialized in high performance and parallel disk and network I/O. In 1998 Josh graduated with a degree in Computer Science and began working at Inktomi Corporation developing network caching software. In 1999 Josh founded Scale Eight, which developed scalable storage software technologies. Scale Eight’s customers included Microsoft, Viacom and Fujitsu. Scale Eight closed operations in early 2003 and sold its intellectual property to Intel Corporation. Josh then moved on to the non-profit Internet Archive. Josh directed engineering and operations and was tasked to build out their Petabyte data center in San Francisco. In 2004, Josh relocated his family to Highland, Utah. The following year he founded Berkeley Data Systems (Mozy.com.) Within two years Mozy had acquired over 300,000 customers, including over 8,000 business contract
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 2 investors at Brigham Young University are tracked.
- • 3 investors hold the Adjunct Instructor role in VCSift. Josh Coates is one of them.
- • 318 investors are based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Salt Lake City, US
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