Telstra Ventures was among the investors in the equity portion of cloud data storage provider Nasuni's latest round, lifting its total equity funding to $169m.

US-based data storage software provider Nasuni raised $40m in debt and equity financing on Tuesday from investors including telecommunications firm Telstra’s corporate venture capital unit, Telstra Ventures.

Telstra was joined in the $25m equity portion of the round by investment bank Goldman Sachs, North Bridge Venture Partners and unnamed other existing backers, as well as undisclosed new investors Nasuni said may have included corporate venturers, VC investors and family offices.

The company said the $25m took its overall equity funding…

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