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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – BIG DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
- Atavium, a data management platform, raised $8.65M in series A funding led by Rally Ventures and Grotech Ventures, with participation from Origin Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Brightstone Venture Capital and G-Bar Ventures. Link
- Spotinst, a cloud cost management platform, raises $15M in series A led by Intel Capital and with the participation of Vertex Venture Capital. Link
- Xcalar, a data discovery platform raised $21M in series A led by Khosla Ventures, Andy Bechtolsheim & Diane Greene, and Merus Capital. Link
- Arangodb, a multi-model NoSQL database, raised $4.8M led by Target Partners. Link
- MarkLogic, a NoSQL database provider, raised funding from NTT Data.Link
- Cockroachlabs, an opensource New SQL company, raised $27M in series B led by Redpoint with participation from Benchmark, GV, Index Ventures and FirstMark. Link
SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND
SnappyData (2016, Portland)- In-memory OLAP and OLTP on Streaming Data fusing Apache Spark and GemFire.
LEADER BOARD – BIG DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Big Data Suites
Cloudera (2008, Palo Alto, $1.05B) – Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop with Apache Technologies and Proprietary Products. Backed by Accel, GV, Intel, T. Rowe Price, In-Q-Tel and others.
Hortonworks (2011, Palo Alto, IPO) – Hortonworks Data Platform built with 100% open source Apache Technologies. Went public in 2014.
MapR (2009, San Jose, $194M) – Commercial distribution of Hadoop, Backed by Google Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Redpoint, NEA, Lightspeed, MayField.
Operational Processing
Key-Value Store
Basho (2007, Cambridge, $52M) – Distributed NoSQL Database. Backed by Trifork, Harbor Island Partners, Wilmington Investor and IDC.
Redis Labs (2011, Mountain View, $41M) – Redis and Memcache in cloud. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Carmel Ventures and others.
Document Store
MongoDB (2007, NYC, $318M) – Creators of Document Store Database MongoDB. Backed by NEA, EMC, RedHat, Sequoia, SalesForce, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Intel, In-Q-Tel and others.
MarkLogic (2003, San Carlos, $173M) – Enterprise NoSQL Database. Backed by Sequoia Capital and others.
Couchbase (2009, Mountain View, $146M) – Enterprise Distribution of CouchDB. Backed by Mayfield, Accel, North Bridge VP, Ignition Partners, Adams Street Partners and others.
Wide Column Family Store
Datastax (2010, Santa Clara, $190M) – Enterprise Distribution of Apache Cassandra. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and others.
NewSQL
MemSQL (2011, SF, $85M) – In-Memory NewSQL Database. Backed by NEA, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Data Collective, Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners and others.
NuoDB (2010, Cambridge, $53M) – In-Memory NewSQL Database. Backed by Dassault Systems, Longworth and Morgenthaler.
Analytical Processing – MPP
Greenplum (2003, San Mateo, $93M, Acq.) – Open source MPP Data Warehouse. Backed by Dawntreader Ventures, EDF Ventures, Mission Ventures and others. Acquired by EMC2 in 2010.
Hadoop
Qubole (2011, Mountain View, $50M) – Hosted Hadoop as a service. Backed by Charles River VC, Milliways Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IVP.
Altiscale (2012, Palo Alto, $42M) – Hosted Hadoop as a service. Backed by Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners, AME Cloud Ventures.
SQL on Hadoop
Splice Machine (2012, SF, $31M) – Open-Source SQL RDBMS on Hadoop & Spark. Backed by Correlation Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and InterWest Partners.
Vertica (2005, Billerica, $23.5M) – Data management solutions for storing and querying Databases. Backed by New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Highland Capital Partners.
Spark
Databricks (2013, SF, $108M) – Platform to Ingest, analyze and visualize data on a spark cluster. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA.
Search
Elastic (2012, Mountain View, $104M) – Search based on lucene, logstash to analyze and kibana to visualize enterprise data. Backed by Index Ventures, NEA, Benchmark, SV Angel, Data Collective.
Graph
Neo4j (2007, SF, $80M) – Neo4j graph database. Backed by Sunstone Capital, Conor Venture Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners Europe and others.
Realtime Processing
StreamBase (2003, Lexington, $37M, Acq.) – Event processing platform that analyze and act on real-time streaming datafor instantaneous decision-making. Backed by Accel Partners, BVP, Battery and Highland Capital Partners. Acquired by Tibco Software in 2013.
GigaSpaces (2000, New York, $36M) – Application Platform for Java. Backed by Intel Capital, FTV Capital, BRM Capital, Viola Group, and Formula Vision Technologies.
Confluent (2014, Palo Alto, $31M) – Enterprise Distribution of Apache Kafka by creators of Kafka. Backed by Index Ventures, Benchmark, Data Collective, LinkedIn.
Striim (2012, Palo Alto, $31M) – Streaming Data integration and Operational Intelligence Platform. Backed by Summit Partners, Intel Capital and Panorama Point.
TerraCotta (2003, SF, $29M, Acq.) – In-Memory data management solutions for real-time applications. Backed by Accel Partners, Goldman Sachs, Benchmark and others. Acquired by Software AG in 2011.
Management Tools
Alteryx (2010, Irvine, $163M) – SaaS Analytics Business Suite. Backed by Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Meritech, Toba Capital, Insight Partners and Sapphire Ventures.
WANdisco (2005, San Ramon, IPO) – Data Replication and downtime recovery in Hadoop. Went public in 2012.
Trifacta (2012, SF, $76M) – Platform for discovery, cleaning and shaping of Big Data. Backed by Ignition Partners, Accel Partners, Milliways Ventures, Greylock, Infosys and others.
Framework
Dataguise (2007, Fremont, $32.5M) – Security and governance for Big Data. Backed by Toba Capital.
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