Milind Borate is a co-founder of Druva, the cloud data protection company that began in Pune in 2008. His co-founders are Jaspreet Singh and Ramani Kothandaraman.
He worked at Veritas Software in India from 1998 to 2005, including as a technical director. His work there centred on file systems and file system migration tools. He left in 2005, when the Veritas and Symantec merger was announced.
From 2005 to 2007 he ran Coriolis Technologies, a company he founded. In 1998 he co-authored the book Undocumented Windows NT. He is credited with more than 15 patent applications.
He was Druva's CTO from 2008. In October 2020 his title changed to Chief Development Officer. Druva became a unicorn in June 2019 and raised $147M at about a $2B valuation in April 2021.