High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Founded in 2009, Pure Storage is a Mountain View, California-based venture-backed (Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures) enterprise storage company founded by John "Coz" Colgrove, one of the original founders of Veritas and John Hayes, who joined from the office of the CTO at Yahoo. The company launched from stealth in August 2011.