| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.07.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/23/16 | Unilever bought Dollar Shave Club; Expedia acquired Trover; Postmates purchased Hey
Unilever signed an agreement to acquire men's grooming subscription service Dollar Shave Club. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed, but the price ... |
| 21.07.2016 | Workday acquires big data analytics company Platfora | Publicly traded human capital management software company Workday today announced that it has acquired Platfora, a startup that built software for cleaning up and analyzing big data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“The acquisition wi... |
| 21.07.2016 | Workday acquires big data analytics company Platfora | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Publicly traded human capital management software... |
| 08.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 8, 2015 | One Medical Group bagged $65M; NowThis secured $16.2M; Everwise raised $8M funding
Everwise, a company that helps aspiring professionals define development goals and connect with the right mentors, peer groups and individually curated conte... |
| 08.12.2015 | Platfora Big Data Analytics Platform Scores $30 Million Round | Platfora, a company that helps customers process and make sense of big data, announced a $30 million investment today.
The round includes money from new participants HSBC and Harmony Partners with contributions from earlier funders Allegis ... |
| 08.12.2015 | Platfora Raises $30M in Financing | Platfora, a San Mateo, CA-based big data discovery platform, raised $30M in financing.
The round, which brought total amount to $95m, was led by new investors HSBC and Harmony Partners, with participation from Allegis Capital, Andreessen Ho... |
| 06.11.2015 | Analytics Divided Will Fail: A Holistic Approach To Big Data Discovery | Companies have been buying a wide variety of different tools that specialize in niche facets of the data discovery process. That made sense when everything was new and being tried for the first time, but now that approach is a hindrance tha... |
| 06.08.2015 | Big data startup Platfora appoints Jason Zintak as CEO; founder Ben Werther steps down | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Platfora, a startup with software for cleaning up... |
| 06.08.2015 | Big data startup Platfora appoints Jason Zintak as CEO; founder Ben Werther steps down | Platfora, a startup with software for cleaning up, analyzing, and visualizing data stored in the Hadoop open-source big data software, is switching chief executives.
Founder Ben Werther is stepping down after four years and becoming executi... |
| 07.07.2015 | Don’t Hire A Chief Data Officer Unless You’re Serious About Becoming A Data-Driven Company | Ben Werther Contributor
Ben Werther is founder and CEO of Platfora.
There’s a lot of discussion in the business world right now about chief data officers (CDOs). It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CD... |
| 30.12.2014 | 5 big data trends to watch out for in 2015 | What a difference a year makes. At the end of 2013, the industry was still debating whether Hadoop and related big data technologies were going to become mainstream or were just niche technologies for Internet companies.
A year later, the a... |
| 30.12.2014 | 5 big data trends to watch out for in 2015 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What a difference a year makes. At the end of 201... |
| 30.08.2014 | Five Factors In Building Giants Of The Big Data Era | Navin Chaddha Contributor
Navin Chaddha leads Mayfield. The firm invests in early-stage consumer, healthIT and enterprise technology companies and currently has $1.8 billion under management.
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Biology as techno... |
| 24.03.2014 | Platfora Raises $38M |
SAN MATEO, CA, Big Data Analytics software company that aims to eradicate the gut decision, today announced a $38 million investment led by Tenaya Capital.
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| 21.03.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/21/14 | Stir, Chatwala, Parchment, Bitvore, Tango, Pley, Crowdtap, Gigwalk, Upverter, Testbirds, MachineShop
Seed stage
Meducation, a medical education network aimed at medical students and professionals, completed a $1 million seed funding round f... |
| 19.03.2014 | Big data analytics firm Platfora raises $38M to help enterprises make better decisions | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The race is on to develop the best ways to help b... |
| 19.03.2014 | Platfora Raises $38M in Funding | Platfora, a San Mateo, CA-based Big Data Analytics software company, raised $38m in funding.
The round was led by Tenaya Capital, with participation from Citi Ventures, Cisco and Allegis Capital, as well as existing investors Andreessen Hor... |
| 19.03.2014 | Big Data Analytics Company Platfora Raises $38M | Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, has raised $38 million led by Tenaya Capital, which brings the company’s total financing to $65 million. Also participating in this round are Citi Ventures, Cisc... |
| 22.11.2013 | Alpine Data Labs gets $16M to ensure companies ‘won’t fail’ with big data analytics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The latest startup to capitalize on the big data ... |
| 31.12.2012 | Silicon Valley VCs predict 2013 trends: Space, robots, self-driving cars | As the year draws to an end, Silicon Valley investors are looking for the next wave of technology after social networking.
VentureBeat spoke to a slew of the top players at well-known West Coast institutions — the founding team at Stanford ... |
| 13.11.2012 | Big Data startup Platfora pulls in $20M to ‘make Hadoop amazing’ | Platfora, the startup that made a splash at the recent Strata conference with a promise to “unleash the potential of Hadoop” has raised its second round of funding.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company has been baking its technology for over... |
| 13.11.2012 | Platfora gets $20M for a business intelligence platform | Battery Ventures leads round, with Andreessen Horowitz, Sutter Hill Ventures participating
As more information gets digitized, the more information can be analyzed and spliced and diced to derive knowledge. But in this day and age, months c... |
| 13.11.2012 | Funding Daily: A feast of funding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You’ve had large servings of funding news served ... |
| 13.11.2012 | Google, Platfora, DataSift: Bay Area Venture News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We don’t try to cook up stories on every Series A, B, C, or D round raised by Bay Area startups. But there seemed to be an extra helping of fundraising deals and other venture... |
| 13.11.2012 | Platfora Announces $20M Series B |
SAN MATEO, CA, First in-memory business intelligence (BI) platform for Hadoop and Big Data, closed a $20M Series B round of funding led by Battery Ventures.
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| 13.11.2012 | Platfora Closes $20M Series B Funding | Platfora, a San Mateo, CA-based in-memory business intelligence (BI) platform for Hadoop and Big Data, closed a $20m Series B funding.
The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Sut... |
| 13.11.2012 | Big Data startup Platfora pulls in $20M to ‘make Hadoop amazing’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Platfora, the startup that made a splash at the r... |
| 23.10.2012 | Platfora Seeks To Brings Simplicity And An Apple Style Ease Of Use To Big Data Analysis | Platfora has unveiled an in-memory big data app that tackles a capability lacking in most software offerings that leverage Hadoop for big data analysis.
Most solutions that leverage Hadoop have complex, technically oriented, user interfaces... |
| 23.10.2012 | 'Big data' startup Platfora wants to unleash the potential of Hadoop | NEW YORK: Platfora, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed “big data” startup, unveiled the product it has been baking for over a year at the Strata conference today.
The Silicon Valley-based company publicly launched its technology that crunches r... |
| 23.10.2012 | 'Big data' startup Platfora wants to unleash the potential of Hadoop | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
NEW YORK: Platfora, the Andreessen Horowitz-backe... |
| 18.09.2012 | MongoDB Maker 10Gen Closes Undisclosed Round From U.S. Intelligence Investors | 10gen, the sponsor company of the open source NoSQL database MongoDB, today announced undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, a non-profit private equity and venture capital firm that invests in technologies deemed beneficial to the U.S. inte... |
| 08.09.2011 | Hadoop data-management provider Platfora raises $5.7M months after launch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Platfora, a data management software provider bas... |
| 08.09.2011 | Andreessen Horowitz Leads $5.7M Round In Analytics Platform For Hadoop Data Platfora | Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, raised $5.7 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with intelligence technology company In-Q-Tel participating. Andreessen Horowitz General Partn... |
| 08.09.2011 | Thursday Deals Roundup: Zagat, Platfora, Lending Club & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our more-or-less daily summary of key deals news in the Bay Area biztech world.
—Google announced that it has acquired Zagat, the venerable and popular crowdsourced r... |
