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Cloudera launches its all-in-one SaaS data lakehouse
Cloudera, the Hadoop-centric big data company that IPO’d in 2017 and then went private again in a $5.3 billion deal in 2021, is now putting its emphasis on becoming the unified data fabric for h
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With buyout, Cloudera hunts for relevance in a changing market
When Cloudera announced its sale to a pair of private equity firms yesterday for $5.3 billion, along with a couple of acquisitions of its own, the company detailed a new path that could help it drive
Equity Tuesday: Everyone is raising money at the same time
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Cloudera to go private as KKR & CD&R grab it for $5.3B
Cloudera was once one of the hottest Hadoop startups, but over time the shine has come off that market, and today it went private as KKR and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a pair of private equity firm
Airbyte raises $5.2M for its open-source data integration platform
Airbyte, an open-source data integration platform, today announced that it has raised a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Accel. Other investors include Y Combinator, 8VC, Segment co-founder Calv
Cloudera pulls sensitive files from its ‘open by design’ cloud servers
Enterprise cloud giant Cloudera has pulled several of its cloud storage servers offline, despite initially claiming the servers were “open by design,” after a security researcher found sen
FirstMark Capital announces new funds with a fresh $650 million in investment capital
FirstMark Capital, the New York-based VC firm whose portfolio includes Shopify, Riot Games, Pinterest, Airbnb, InVision and more, has today announced the close of its two newest investment vehicles. F
A COVID-19 resilience test for B2B companies
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Y Combinator graduate H1 closes on $12.9 million for its professional healthcare database
Just months after graduating from Y Combinator, H1 Insights, the LinkedIn for the healthcare industry, has raised $12.9 million in a new round of funding. “It’s a better way to connect the
Kobalt, Apple and smartwatches, Hadoop, customer support, and social work and AI
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With MapR fire sale, Hadoop’s promise has fallen on hard times
If you go back about a decade, Hadoop was hot and getting hotter. It was a platform for processing big data, just as big data was emerging from the domain of a few web-scale companies to one where eve
Verified Expert Brand Designer: Stitzlein Studio
After spending years working for in-house design teams and well-known brand agencies such as Nike, Google, and Pentagram, Joe and Leslie Stitzlein, who are also husband and wife, decided to launch the
Caterina Fake is known for her trend-spotting; here’s some of what she’s chasing now
Roughly a year ago, entrepreneurs Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström decided to form a traditional venture outfit called Yes VC. Fast forward, and the duo has nearly closed on $50 million for their deb
How open-source software took over the world
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed the growing e
Cloudera and Hortonworks finalize their merger
Cloudera and Hortonworks, two of the biggest players in the Hadoop big data space, today announced that they have finalized their all-stock merger. The new company will use the Cloudera brand and will
Cloudera and Hortonworks announce $5.2 billion merger
Over the years, Hadoop, the once high-flying open-source platform, gave rise to many companies and an ecosystem of vendors emerged. It was long believed that some major companies would emerge from the
Cloudera acquires AI research firm Fast Forward Labs
Cloudera said today as part of its second-quarter earnings report that it is acquiring Fast Forward Labs, a startup that gives companies the latest information on how to apply machine learning and AI
Most of 2017’s tech IPOs are performing well
Blue Apron and Snap had disappointing debuts this year, but others have fared much better. Of the tech companies that have gone public this year, most are trading above their IPO price. But there have