by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Hilary Mason, GM of machine learning at Cloudera, believes that there should be a change in “the default way we think about the practice of data.” Mason believes that people will demand more from companies in terms of their privacy and the security of the personal...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Deals
Tempus raised $110 million in Series E financing by the end of August this year. This means that the Chicago-based data analytics company is now valued at $2 billion, vaulting it into the ranks of start-up “unicorns.” Founded by Eric Lefkofsky of Groupon fame, Tempus...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Data security and protection top the list of concerns for a group of 100 CDOs across Europe who were surveyed recently by Gresham. But the major point of agreement (80% of those surveyed) was that greater investments should be made in machine learning and data...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Deals
Cloudian, a company that employs cloud technologies for enterprise level storage, received $94 million in Series E funding in August. Cloudian has how raised a total of $173 million so far, which the company claims is the biggest ever for a “distributed file systems...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Deals, People
Application Performance Management (APM) firm Pepperdata introduced two new senior hires even as it predicted a hike in seven-figure deals. The new members of the Pepperdata team are Charles Marker (VP of Engineering) and Dan Marx (VP of Sales). GlobeNewswire reports:...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Deals
Canvass Analytics has received $5 million in funding from Gradient Ventures, a Google-created venture fund that eyes start-ups that hone in industrial applications for artificial intelligence (AI). Canvass Analytics said it will earmark the new round of funding to...
