2013 was a significant year for Hadoop ecosystem with many
players establishing themselves firmly and new entrants joining the fray. As
the market geared up for pure play Hadoop players to go in for IPO or
acquisitions, there were some solid funding rounds. Listed below are some facts
and analysis on notable funding events in the ecosystem.
Company | Round | Date | Funding (million $) | Investors |
0xdata | Venture Round |
Jan-13
|
1.70
|
Nexus Venture Partners |
Zettaset | Series B |
Jan-13
|
10.00
|
HighBar Partners EPIC Ventures |
Hstreaming | Seed |
Feb-13
|
1.00
|
Atlas Venture |
Think Big Analytics | Seed |
Feb-13
|
3.00
|
Dan Scheinman WI Harper Group |
Jethro Data | Seed |
Feb-13
|
4.50
|
Pitango Venture Capital |
MapR | Series C |
Mar-13
|
32.00
|
Mayfield Fund Lightspeed Venture Partners New Enterprise Associates Redpoint Ventures |
Concurrent Inc | Series A |
Mar-13
|
4.00
|
True Ventures Rembrandt Venture Partners |
ZeroVM | Seed |
Apr-13
|
1.54
|
Techstars Start-Up Chile (Acquired by Rackspace) |
SiSense | Venture Round |
Apr-13
|
10.00
|
Battery Ventures Opus Capital Genesis Partners |
Zettaset | Venture Round |
Apr-13
|
5.25
|
Brocade Communications Systems Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) EPIC Ventures HighBar Partners |
Qubole | Series A |
Apr-13
|
7.00
|
Charles River Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Venky Harinarayan Anand Rajaram |
GraphLab | Series A |
May-13
|
6.75
|
Madrona Venture Group New Enterprise Associates |
Hortonworks | Series C |
Jun-13
|
50.00
|
Dragoneer Investment Group Yahoo! Tenaya Capital Index Ventures Benchmark |
Infochimps | Debt |
Jun-13
|
0.60
|
*Acquired by CSC |
MAANA | Seed |
Jul-13
|
2.61
|
Intel Capital GE Ventures Frost Venture Partners |
DataStax | Series D |
Jul-13
|
45.00
|
Scale Venture Partners Next World Capital Meritech Capital Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners Crosslink Capital DFJ Growth Salil Deshpande |
MapR | Series C |
Jul-13
|
5.00
|
Redpoint Ventures Mayfield Fund New Enterprise Associates Lightspeed Venture Partners |
Traeasure Data | Series A |
Jul-13
|
5.00
|
Sierra Ventures Charles River Ventures |
Veristorm | Seed |
Sep-13
|
1.00
|
|
Sqrrl | Series A |
Oct-13
|
5.20
|
Atlas Venture Matrix Partners |
Talend | Venture Round |
Dec-13
|
40.00
|
Bpifrance Iris Capital Silver Lake Sumeru |
Some of the funding patterns which came out strongly were:
-
Hadoop Distribution players like Hortonworks, MapR,
Datastax got biggest thumbs up from investors which tends to indicate they
believe Hadoop as a platform is here to stay.
-
Beyond US, there is a big interest in Israel investment network on Hadoop
and Big data companies.
-
Even startups have an offshore-onsite model as shown by
companies like Qubole.
-
Seed funding greater than 1 million dollar is not an
exception but a common norm.
-
Even debt is not a bad option as shown by Infochimps
which was later acquired by CSC.
-
There were very few single investors funding.
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