by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Deals
Hortonworks will become a subsidiary of Cloudera and will fill four seats on the nine-member Cloudera board. Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly will stay in charge. The merger comes as cloudy future faces Hadoop technology, which is now squeezed by the growing popularity of...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Deals
As Houston rebuilds from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey, it will do so armed with flood hazard and property loss models from professional services firm Dewberry. The full story is from Directions Magazine: The granular, structure-level understanding of...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Deals
The first half of 2018 saw record private equity investment in the healthcare sector. At the heart of many of those deals: big data, and the sector’s desire to grapple with data that’s piling up in droves. Jonathan Simnett of Hampleton Partners, sums it up...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Deals
Tamr, a data analytics startup that draws on AI techniques to hasten analytics workflows, announced that it has secured new funding worth $10 million from Pear Tree Partners and Granite Hill Capital Partners. Tamr has now raised over $68 million in total startup...
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, 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...
