Alteryx Scores $85 Million As Growth Spurt Continues

Alteryx, which offers an analytics tool aimed at business users, announced an $85 million round today.

Today’s deal comes on top of the $60 million deal last October and brings the total raised to an impressive $163 million to date.

The round was led by Iconiq Capital and Insight Venture Partners. Meritech Capital Partners also participated.

The company has been growing steadily and that seems to have attracted the attention of investors. When we covered the funding last October, the company reported 600 customers. It now has over 1000 says company president George Mathew and he says they are adding about 200 new customers per quarter.

The company used last year’s funding to grab a foothold in Europe, adding 20 employees in Western Europe along with 40 channel partners that helped build a roster of 200 customers outside of North America.

The company plans to use part of today’s investment to expand further internationally, Mathew said.

Mathew wasn’t ready to commit to any next steps beyond this funding round. He insisted he was not thinking ahead to any future funding (or an IPO).

As I wrote in last year’s funding article:

Alteryx is a tool for working with data once you have a set of data sources. It allows you to create a workflow by dragging in various data sources and other objects. You can then package this design into an application which you can share with others or you can use it to generate reports, pivot tables or whatever you require.

The apps are what really differentiates this company though and they have created a marketplace to share or sell them at gallery.alteryx.com and it provides a head start for less technical users or companies that a need a particular type of report and don’t want to reinvent the wheel.

With the growth in customers, of course, comes the need for additional employees and Alteryx has grown from 170 last year to 300 this year. It expects to add 40 more by year’s end and have 500 by the end of next year.

To deal with that number of new employees, the company has established a 1-2 week new employee training bootcamp to get people up and running very quickly and help them understand the culture and the mission of the company and how that fits within the specifics of their job.

The company offers a hosted version of the server part of the product, or customers can install it in their datacenters or in AWS or Azure. The end user version is a desktop application.