14 Big Data startups that are in stealth mode but can't be ignored

Big data may be the most hot word in the tech world and VC circles. It seems that internet companies, even traditional industry companies, that don't have much of a big data connection have no future.

is a hot word, there must be a bubble. Under the bubble, some companies that are really creating and digging into big data values, especially startups, are not known.

There are companies that may still be in stealth mode, and they are now busy finishing the final finishing touches that will make it possible to change the rules of the game.

Many of these big data startups ' teams come from giants such as Google and Facebook. Some of these startups focus on analysis and some focus on memory databases. In addition, there are other start-up companies are vigorously developing NOSQL database (non-relational database) technology.

Business Insider, an American technology blog, lists 14 emerging big data startups. Their business, models, perhaps worthy of domestic attention to large data business students for reference. Can see, these companies behind, are strong VC.

"The big data is interesting because it will be a major investment area for many years to come." The big data wave will last long, not 18 months or 24 months later. Li Ping, general partner of Accel Partners at Venture capital, said.

Momentum is starting to grow for these big data start-ups, which have been funded.

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1.WibiData

Establishment Date: 2010

Company headquarters: San Francisco

The company's main business: selling tools that allow retail and financial customers to build their own large data applications, including mobile and software-service (SaaS) applications.

Outstanding talent: Co-founder Christopher Bisilia (Christophe bisciglia) has been one of the co-founder of Cloudera, a start-up company that provides large data systems for enterprise-level markets. Another co-founder was Allen Kimboll (Aaron Kimball), the first engineer Cloudera hired.

Backers of the company: from NEA, Canaan, Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Cloudera chief executive Michael Orsen Michael Olson and angel investor Ron Conway Conway) and David Li Hu (David Lee) raised more than 20 million of billions of dollars.

2.Hadapt

Establishment Date: 2011

Company headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Company main business: HADAPT's re-use analytical platform combines the SQL (Structured Query Language) technology used by traditional databases with the new Hadoop technology, which can analyze massive data. This combination is designed to allow users to use a system to use the database and to perform analytical work.

Company outstanding talent: Chief Scientist and co-founder Daniel Abati (Daniel Abadi) at the Massachusetts Institute of Learning, wrote a paper on the column-type storage database (database for storing data in the relational storage schema, mainly for batch data processing and ad hoc query), This paper prompted him to create Vertica in the future. In 2011, Vertica was bought by HP. Kamil Bajda-pawlikowski is the company's chief Software architect and another co-founder.

Backers of the company: 17 million of billions of dollars have been raised from venture capital firms such as Atlas Venture, Bessemer Venture and Norwest Venture.

3.Sqrrl

Establishment Date: 2012

Company headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Company's main business: Around the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) developed open source NoSQL database Apache Accumulo built a business. Accumulo comes from the big Data technology bigtable developed by Google.

Company outstanding talent: Co-founder and chief Technology officer Adam Fox (Adam Fuchs), he is also a co-founder of the Apache Accumulo.

Supporters behind the company: 2 million of billions of dollars have been raised from venture capital firms such as Atlas Venture and Matrix.

4.Domo

Establishment Date: 2010

Company headquarters: Utah State Garfork (Anglo Fork)

Company's main business: The company developed software can display panels and charts show large data analysis results, can make the enterprise easier to understand and use.

Company talent: Domo's current chief executive, Josh James, founded Omniture in 1996, then listed his IPO in 2006, then sold the company to Adobe in 2009 for 1.8 billion dollars.

Supporters behind the company: from GGV Capital, Greylock, Bezos Expeditions, Workday co-CEO Anier Buhasri (Aneel Bhusri) and David Duffield (David Duffield), founders Fund, Mercato, IVP and Sorenson (Frezey Block Fraser) capital, raised 120 million of dollars.

5.DataGravity

Establishment Date: 2012

Company headquarter: New Hampshire State Nashua (Nashua)

Company's main business: the large data technology embedded in the storage system, so that medium-sized companies can afford the company's products. is still in stealth mode.

Outstanding talent: CEO and co-founder Paula Lah Long (Paula Long) is also one of the co-founder of EqualLogic, a provider of data storage systems, EqualLogic was bought by Dell at $1.8 billion a 2008. John Joseph, another co-founder Joseph, also served as EqualLogic executive.

Supporters behind the company: 42 million of billions of dollars have been raised from venture capital firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River and General Catalyst.

6.Data Tamer

Establishment Date: 2012

Company headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Company's main business: is still in the "stealth mode." The company's technology is based on the findings of the MIT, Brandeis University (Brandeis) and Qatar Institute of Computing (Qatar Computing Research Cato). "Data-tamer enables enterprise organizations to effectively and massively integrate and manage many existing and future data sources," the company's website said. ”

Outstanding talent: The company's founder is MIT professor, database expert Michael Blake (Michael Stonebraker) and seed investor Ann Die Palmer (Andy Palmer), which is also Vertica, One of the co-founder of Voltdb and other companies.

Supporters behind the company: The amount of seed money was raised in February from Google Ventures and NEA, its venture capital, unclear.

7.Continuuity

Establishment Date: 2011

Company headquarter: California State Palo Alto

Company's main business: Provide platform for software development, that is, service (Platform-as-a-service) products, can connect to large data repositories.

Outstanding talent: Co-founder Tode Papayoannu Todd Papaioannou and Nitting Motegi (Nitin motgi) have developed large data projects in Yahoo and other companies, and another co-founder Jonathan Grey (Jonathan Gray) was the head of Facebook's Big Data project. In addition, there are engineers from Teradata, Microsoft and the open source community.

Supporters behind the company: from Battery Ventures, ignition, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective and Amplify Venture capitalists, such as the company, have raised 12.5 million of billions of dollars.

8.DataStax

Establishment Date: 2010

Company headquarters: California State San Mateo and Texas Austin

Company's main business: sale of the Enterprise version of the NoSQL database Apache Cassandra.

Outstanding talent: Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Ellis (Jonathan Ellis) and vice president Matt Pfeil are all from the service and hosting providers Rackspace, who are co-founder of DataStax.

Supporters behind the company: nearly 40 million dollars have been raised from venture capital firms such as Lightspeed Venture, Crosslink and Meritech.

9.Sumo Logic

Establishment Date: 2010

Company headquarters: California State Reid Redwood (Redwood City)

The company's main business: the sale of a cloud-based service that manages and analyzes log data from enterprise hardware and applications to ensure that it is running in good condition.

Company outstanding talent: Co-founder Kumar Saurabh and Christian Petergen (Christian Beedgen) are from security software manufacturer ArcSight, which was purchased by HP at $1.5 billion a 2010 price.

Supporters behind the company: 50.5 million of billions of dollars have been raised from venture capital firms such as Accel, Greylock and Sutter Hill Ventures.

10.Datameer

Establishment Date: 2009

Company headquarter: California State San Mateo

The company's main business: Sell an application based on the operation of Hadoop, can analyze the enterprise data and display in the chart.

Outstanding talent: Many of the company's employees have worked in Hadoop, CEO Stefan Groschap (Stefan GROSCHUPF) was one of the early funders of the open source Big Data search engine Nutch.

Supporters behind the company: nearly 18 million dollars have been raised from venture capital firms such as TDF Kleiner and Red Dot Ventures (Redpoint).

11.HStreaming

Establishment Date: 2011

Company headquarters: San Francisco

Company's main business: the use of Hadoop technology to collate and analyze real-time video streaming and machine-generated data.

Outstanding talent: CTO Julig (Volkmar Uhlig) has worked at the IBM Watson Research Center for five years, in addition to being the chief architect of the L4 microkernel, which controls cell phone functionality, More than 1.5 billion mobile phones are running around the world based on the technology.

Supporters behind the company: 1 million dollars have been raised from the venture capital Atlas Venture.

12.Precog

Establishment Date: 2010 (formerly known as Reportgrid)

Company headquarters: Colorado State Boulder (Boulder)

Company's main business: the development of social media and network analysis technology, as well as large data application developer tools.

Corporate Talent: Co-founder John De goes and Kris Nuttycombe, a former engineer of social advertising network socialmedia.com, were bought by the second-largest group in 2011.

Supporters behind the company: 2 million of dollars have been raised from venture capitalists such as RTP ventures, resonant Ventures and launch capital.

13.Alpine Data Labs

Establishment Date: 2011

Company headquarter: California State San Mateo

Company's main business: Focus on Enterprise-class large data business, the company developed software to visualize the company data flow in the event.

Company outstanding talent: President and Chief Executive Officer Jes Otto (Joe Otto) and chief product Officer Steven Hilton (Steven hillion) are from the cloud storage service provider EMC's Greenplum division, which has hatched alpine Data Labs.

Supporters behind the company: 7.5 million of dollars have been raised from Sierra Ventures, Burritos Ventures, EMC, Stanford University and Sumitomo.

14.Kontagent

Establishment Date: 2007

Company headquarters: San Francisco

Company's main business: the sale of mobile and social application Analysis Services.

Corporate talent: Jeff Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Jeff Zeng, has developed software for NASA (NASA).

Supporters behind the company: 18 million of billions of dollars have been raised from venture capital firms such as Battery Ventures, Maverick and Altos Ventures.

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