Tech Company Financing Transactions

Platfora Funding Round

Platfora, operating out of San Mateo, raised $38 million in investment from Tenaya Capital, Allegis Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Platfora
Announced On
3/19/2014
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$38,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors

Tenaya Capital (Lead Investor) (Brian Paul)

Allegis Capital (Robert Ackerman)

Andreessen Horowitz (Scott Weiss)

Battery Ventures (Michael Dauber)

Cisco Investments (Hilton Romanski)

Citi Ventures (Ramneek Gupta)

In-Q-Tel

Sutter Hill Ventures (Michael Speiser)

Proceeds Purpose
The company will use the funds to invest aggressively in talent, technology and field organizations to enable Platfora to lead organizations in a once-in-a-generation shift away from SQL-based business intelligence technology into the current era of Big Data Analytics.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
1300 S El Camino Real 6th Floor
San Mateo, CA 94402
USA
Phone
(650) 918-1100
Website
www.platfora.com
Email Address
[email protected]
Overview
Platfora is the first company to harness the potential of Hadoop so that any business user can explore, interact with, and derive insight from massive data sets, and all via an intuitive and dynamic interface.
Profile
Platfora LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Platfora Company Twitter Account
Company News
Platfora News
Facebook
Platfora on Facebook
YouTube
Platfora on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chairman
Ben Werther
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Chief Executive Officer
Jason Zintak
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Chief Technical Officer
Kevin Beyer
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VP - Engineering
John Schuster
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VP - Finance
Intekhab Nazeer
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VP - Human Resources
Stephani Martin
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VP - Product Management
Peter Schlampp
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