Pivotal raised about $1.7 billion across strategic corporate financings and partnership rounds most notably a $653M Series C (May 5, 2016) that included Ford, Microsoft, GE, EMC and VMware fueling a rapid build of cloud-native platform capabilities. Founded as a 2013 spin-out combining assets from EMC and VMware, Pivotal assembled Cloud Foundry, Spring, Greenplum and developer services into an enterprise PaaS.