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The Big Data ecosystem is exploding with slews of exciting start-ups. Below is a list of start-up vendors and the amount of venture capital each has raised, including lead investors. Funding and investor data was determined after a thorough review of publicly available data including media reports, press releases, CrunchBase and LinkedIn profiles, and other sources.
While this list represents many of the top Big Data start-ups, it is by no means comprehensive. Wikibon encourages community members to update this table with relevant start-ups and associated funding that are not already represented.
To be included on this list, vendors must be private, Big Data pure-plays delivering products and/or services in one of the following markets: Hadoop, NoSQL, Next Generation (MPP) Data Warehousing, predictive analytics and/or advanced data visualization.
Vendor | Founded | Funding (in $US mil.) | # of Institutional Rounds | Investors |
Palantir | 2004 | $301 | 7 | SAC Capital, The Founders Fund, Glynn Capital, In-Q-Tel, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Youniversity Ventures and Jeremy Stoppelman |
Cloudera | 2008 | $146 | 5 | Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and Meritech Capital Partners |
Mu Sigma | 2004 | $133 | 2 | General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital |
Opera Solutions | 2004 | $84 | 1 | Silver Lake Sumeru, Accel-KKR, Invus Financial Advisors, JGE Capital and Tola Capital |
10gen | 2008 | $81 | 6 | Intel Capital, Red Hat, New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures |
Guavus | 2006 | $78 | 3 | Investor Growth Capital, QuestMark Partners, Intel Capital, Artiman Ventures and Sofinnova Ventures |
ParAccel | 2005 | $73 | 5 | Amazon, Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Bay Partners, Walden International, Tao Venture Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank |
Talend | 2005 | $61.6 | 5 | Silver Lake Partners, Balderton Capital, Galileo Partners and IDInvest Partners |
GoodData | 2007 | $53.5 | 3 | Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Windcrest Partners, Tenaya Capital and Next World Capital |
Splunk(1) | 2003 | $40 | 3 | Ignition Partners, August Capital, JK&B and Sevin Rosen Funds |
DataStax | 2010 | $38.7 | 3 | Meritech Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Crosslink Capital |
1010data | 2000 | $35 | 1 | Norwest Venture Partners |
Couchbase | 2009 | $31 | 3 | Ignition Partners, Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, and North Bridge Venture Partners |
MapR | 2009 | $29 | 2 | Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and NEA |
Tidemark | 2011 | $28 | 2 | Andreesen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures and Greylock Partners |
Factual | 2007 | $27 | 1 | Andreesen Horowitz and Index Ventures |
Platfora | 2011 | $25.7 | 2 | Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sutter Hill Ventures and In-Q-Tel |
MetaMarkets | 2010 | $23 | 2 | Khosla Ventures, IA Ventures, AOL Ventures, Neu Venture Capital, Joshua Stylman, Village Ventures and True Ventures |
Hopper | 2007 | $22 | 3 | Atlas Venture, OMERS Ventures and Brightspark Ventures |
Lattice Engines | 2006 | $21.6 | 2 | Battery Ventures and New Enterprise Associates |
SumoLogic | 2010 | $20.5 | 2 | Sutter Hill Ventures, Greylock Partners, Shlomo Kramer |
Hortonworks | 2011 | $20 | 1 | Benchmark Capital, Yahoo and Index Ventures |
RainStor | 2004 | $19.2 | 3 | Storm Ventures, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Informatica, Rogers Venture Partners and The Dow Company |
DataXu | 2009 | $18.8 | 2 | Menlo Ventures, Atlas Venture and Flybridge Capital Partners |
Datameer | 2009 | $17.8 | 3 | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Redpoint Ventures |
Revolution Analytics | 2007 | $17.6 | 2 | North Bridge Venture Partners and Intel Capital |
Hadapt | 2010 | $16.2 | 1 | Atlas Venture, Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners |
Lucid Imagination | 2007 | $16 | 2 | Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Walden International |
Continuity | 2011 | $12.5 | 2 | Andreessen-Horowitz, Ignition Ventures, Battery Ventures, Data Collective and Amplify Partners |
Connotate | 2000 | $12.3 | 2 | Castile Ventures, Prism VentureWorks and .406 Ventures |
ClearStory Data | 2012 | $12.25 | 1 | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures |
Karmasphere | 2005 | $11 | 2 | Presidio Ventures, Hummer Winblad and US Venture Partners |
Loggly | 2009 | $10 | 1 | True Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Matrix Partners |
Oragami Logic | 2012 | $8 | 1 | Accel Partners |
Alpine Data Labs | 2010 | $7.5 | 1 | Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia and Stanford University |
SpaceCurve | 2009 | $7.5 | 1 | Triage Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Divergent Ventures |
NGDATA | 2011 | $5.8 | 2 | ING, Sniper Investments, Plug and Play Ventures, Capricorn |
ParStream | 2008 | $5.6 | 1 | Khosla Ventures, Baker Capital, Crunch Fund, Data Collective and Tola Capital |
SpaceCurve | 2011 | $5.2 | 2 | Reed Elsevier, Divergent Ventures, and Triage Ventures |
MemSQL | 2011 | $5 | 1 | First Round Capital, SV Angel, Y Combinator, IA Ventures and Ashton Kutcher |
WibiData | 2010 | $5 | 1 | New Enterprise Associates, SV Angel, Mike Olson and Eric Schmidt |
InsightSquared | 2010 | $4.5 | 1 | Atlas Venture, Bessemer Venture Partners, NextView Ventures and salesforce.com |
Chartio | 2010 | $4.4 | 1 | Avalon Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Y Combinator, Crosslink Capital and Jeff Hammerbacher |
Trifacta | 2012 | $4.3 | 1 | Accel Partners, X/Seed Capital, Data Collective LLC, Dave Goldberg, Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman |
Digital Reasoning | 2000 | $4.2 | 2 | In-Q-Tel and Silver Lake Sumeru |
SiSense | 2008 | $4 | 1 | Opus Capital, Genesis Partners and Eli Farkash |
Calpont | 2000 | $3.27 | 1 | Austin Ventures and GF Private Equity |
StackIQ | 2006 | $3 | 1 | Anthem Venture Partners and Avalon Ventures |
Zettaset | 2009 | $3 | 1 | Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Epic Ventures |
GridGain | 2005 | $2.5 | 1 | RTP Ventures |
Sqrrl | 2012 | $2 | 1 | Atlas Venture |
Feedzai | 2008 | $2 | 1 | Espirito Santo Ventures and Novabase Capital |
Nodeable | 2011 | $2 | 1 | True Ventures and Matrix Partners |
RelateIQ | 2012 | $1.25 | 1 | Accel Partners, Morgenthaler and SV Angel |
Zoomdatae | 2012 | $1.1 | 1 | Hemang Gadhia |
AppEnsure | 2011 | $1 | 1 | Citrix Accelerator, TiE, Ignition Partners |
DataHero | 2012 | $1 | 1 | Neu Venture Capital, The Foundry Group, David G. Cohen and Tasso Argyros |
Drawn to Scale | 2009 | $0.93 | 1 | RTP Ventures, IA Ventures, and SK Ventures |
Footnotes:
(1) Went public in April 2012