big data startups: discovery event
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June 14, 2012Menlo Park, California
BIG DATA STARTUPS:Discovery Event
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome 3
Agenda 4
PRESENTING COMPANIES
10gen 5
Agilone 7
Apigee 9
Birst 11
Bottlenose 13
Cloudant 16
DataStax 19
Delphix 22
FullContact 24
Hadapt 26
Huddle 28
InsightsOne 31
Integrate 33
Kaggle 35
Lucid Imagination 37
MemSQL 40
Metamarkets 42
NuoDB 44
Placed 46
Platfora 48
Sumo Logic 50
Tempo 52
HOST BIOGRAPHIES
Gerald Brady 54
George Hoyem 55
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WELCOME
Good afternoon and welcome to today’s Big Data Startups: Discovery Event, bringing some of the most exciting private companies together with the CIA and some of the leading companies in America.
On behalf of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and In-Q-Tel, we would like thank you for joining us for what promises to be an exciting afternoon. We believe “Big Data” is a transformative business opportunity and are excited to bring together such a broad cross-section of companies together on this topic.
We were overwhelmed with the response for today’s event, which made selecting the companies all the more difficult. To all the companies joining us today, we say ‘thank-you.’
This is the second-year that In-Q-Tel and SVB have collaborated on the Big Data Startups: Discovery Event. We at SVB are incredibly proud of our relationship with In-Q-Tel and the CIA. We owe them a debt of gratitude for all their help bringing today’s event to life and for the work they do.
Together with our partner, In-Q-Tel, we believe connecting entrepreneurs with larger companies and government is more important today than ever before, especially as the pace of technology change accelerates.
A final word of thanks is due to all of the company and government executives joining us today. We are thrilled to have you join us today and appreciate your time and support.
Welcome again and thank-you for joining us today.
Gerald BradyManaging DirectorEntrepreneur Services GroupSilicon Valley Bank
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12:00–12:45 p.m. Registration and Lunch
12:45–12:50 p.m. Welcome Remarks
12:50–1:30 p.m. Keynote Presentation
1:30–1:38 p.m. Tempo
1:38–1:46 p.m. Sumo Logic
1:46–1:54 p.m. Platfora
1:54–2:02 p.m. Placed
2:02–2:10 p.m. NuoDB
2:10–2:18 p.m. Metamarkets
2:18–2:26 p.m. MemSQL
2:26–2:34 p.m. Lucid Imagination
2:34–3:00 p.m. Break (25 mins)
3:00–3:08 p.m. Kaggle
3:08–3:16 p.m. Integrate
3:16–3:24 p.m. InsightsOne
3:24–3:32 p.m. Huddle
3:32–3:40 p.m. Hadapt
3:40–3:48 p.m. FullContact
3:48–3:56 p.m. Delphix
3:56–4:16 p.m. Break (20 mins)
4:16–4:24 p.m. DataStax
4:24–4:32 p.m. Cloudant
4:32–4:40 p.m. Bottlenose
4:40–4:48 p.m. Birst
4:48–4:56 p.m. Apigee
4:56–5:04 p.m. Agilone
5:04–5:12 p.m. 10gen
5:12–5:22 p.m. Closing Remarks
5:30–6:30 p.m. Networking Cocktail Reception
AGENDA
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Presenter Biography
As President of 10gen, Max is responsible for building and extending 10gen/MongoDB’s market leadership. Prior to joining 10gen, Max spent 7 years at MarkLogic, provider of a database for unstructured information, where he played a variety of executive roles including Chief Operating Officer. Under Schireson’s leadership, MarkLogic ranked as the 4th fastest growing software company in Silicon Valley in Deloitte’s 2008 Technology Fast 50. Prior to MarkLogic, Max spent 9 years at Oracle where he served as Chief Applications Architect and Vice President, ECommerce and Self Service Applications. Max enrolled to study Mathematics at UC Berkeley at age 14 but in classic Silicon Valley fashion left for the technology industry without a degree.
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COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionA company that commercializes, develops and supports MongoDB.
Management TeamDwight Merriman, CEO and Founder; Elliot Horowitz, CTO and Founder; Max Schireson, President
Product Overview10Gen provides support, services, consultation and development for the open source NoSQL database, MongoDB.
InvestorsFlybridge Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures
Recent Announcements10Gen’s strategy is to build revenue through their support and services contracts around open source MongoDB. They will also produce some proprietary management and scalability tools that ease deployment and management of MongoDB at an enterprise level.
10Gen10gen.comFounded: 2008
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Omer ArtunCEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Omer Artun is Founder & CEO of Agilone. Omer holds a doctorate degree from Brown University where he studied under Nobel Laureate Physicist Leon Cooper on pattern recognition, data mining and complex systems modeling. Between 1999 and 2002 he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, consulting high-tech and retail companies on strategy development. He specialized in analytical areas such as pricing, direct marketing, and customer segmentation. Between 2002 and 2003, he was VP of Strategic Marketing at CDW/Micro Warehouse, a $6B direct reseller of technology products. Between 2003 and 2006, he was Senior Director of B2B Marketing at Best Buy at its newly founded Best Buy for Business division. Dr. Artun was also an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, teaching graduate-level relationship marketing and analytical marketing courses.
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionAgilone’s SaaS-based predictive customer intelligence platform turns marketer’s raw data into effective marketing programs. In addition, Agilone’s solution fully integrates with third party application types such as data management, marketing intelligence, predictive analytics and campaign execution. By bringing together all of these functions into a single suite of applications, marketers are given visibility to spot key trends in their data and act on them faster and easier than ever.
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Management TeamDr. Omer Artun, Chief Executive Officer & Founder; Bill Kiriakis, Vice President of Sales; Amanda North, Vice President of Marketing (Interim); Anselme Le Van, Vice President of Product; Jari Koister, Vice President of Technology
Product OverviewAgilone’s cloud-based customer intelligence platform helps marketers maximize customer lifetime value at the optimal marketing spend. Agilone’s advanced algorithms helps clients know what customers are likely to buy—resulting in increased sales and decreased marketing costs. Agilone’s standard suite of applications help marketers overcome hurdles.
AGLXOne: Elastic real-time data processing platform built from ground up for marketing analytics. AGLXOne integrates, cleanses, enhances and runs algorithms on data that powers marketing intelligence. AGLXOne is an open and flexible platform and integrates easily with any major enterprise marketing application.
NextOne: NextOne is the intelligence layer within the Agilone platform which provides sophisticated correlation, clustering and propensity models.
ReportOne: ReportOne provides visibility into marketing spend effectiveness, gives alerts and analysis capabilities about the business and surfaces all underlying deterministic and predictive calculations.
CampaignOne: CampaignOne is a multi-channel campaign execution engine with built in modeling capabilities which ensures real time access to the customer intelligence platform.
InvestorsSequoia Capital
Go To Market StrategyA combination of direct sales and channel/partner sales.
PartnersAgilone has several top tier partnerships with companies like Silverpop. Agilone is currently engaging additional potential partners and is set to grow its number of partners significantly in the next few months.
Agiloneagilone.comFounded: 2005
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Anant JhingranVP [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Dr. Anant Jhingran (PhD Berkeley) joined Apigee from IBM where he was VP and CTO for IBM’s Information Management Division and Co-Chair of IBM wide Cloud Computing Architecture Board. He was responsible for the technical strategy for databases, information integration, analytics, Big Data, and helped deliver IBM’s PaaS capabilities. Dr. Jhingran has had a wide impact on IBM’s business in warehousing, search, e-commerce and analytics on structured and unstructured data. He has received several awards including IBM Fellow, IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumnus Award, President’s Gold Medal for highest GPA at IIT Delhi, IBM Academy of Technology, and has authored over a dozen patents and over 20 technical papers, including frequent keynotes in industry and academic conferences.
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionApigee is the leading provider of API products and technology for enterprises and developers. Over 200 enterprises like Comcast, GameSpy, TransUnion Interactive, Guardian Life and Constant Contact and thousands of developers use Apigee’s technology. Enterprises use Apigee for visibility, control and scale of their API strategies. Developers use Apigee to learn, explore and develop API-based applications.
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Management TeamChet Kapoor, CEO; Anant Jhingran, VP Data; Brian Mulloy, VP Products; Chris Vogel, VP Solutions; Don Dixon, VP Finance; Ed Anuff, Mobile Platforms; Gregory Brail, Technology; Jen Mazzon, Products; Joe Monzo, Sales; Michael Gardner, Engineering and Operations; Sam Ramji, Strategy; Scott Regan, Marketing; Srinivasa Gandhi Sampath, Solutions; Srinivasulu Grandhi, Engineering and Solutions
Product OverviewThe company’s products include Apigee Premium, a self-service API management tool for providers; Apigee Enterprise, an on-premise, software/hardware, or cloud service that offers security, scalability, compliance, mediation, business-critical analytics, policy management, and developer community tools for enterprises, and Apigee Service.
InvestorsNorwest Venture Partners, Third Point Management Company L.L.C., and Bay Partners
Go To Market StrategyApigee is a leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. With APIs, businesses can quickly reach new customers and partners by enabling the development of an ecosystem of “apps” that connect to their Web services, data and brand. Social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have proven the power of APIs for fueling a massive number of apps around their business. Now, organizations in every industry are tapping the power of APIs to reach huge new markets through apps on a virtually unlimited array of platforms—from smart phones and PCs, to DVRs, in-car computers and many others.Today, hundreds of companies including AT&T, Netflix, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as thousands of software developers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs.
PartnersApigee partners include companies such as IBM, HP and SAP.
Recent AnnouncementsApigee had recently announced several major new customers such as Pearson Publishing, Getty Images, eBay, Korea Telecom and WAC. The company also recently announced the acquisition of Usergrid, a leading mobile app API provider. http://www.apigee.com/about/pr.
Apigeeapigee.com Founded: 2004
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Brad PetersCEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Brad Peters is the CEO and co-founder of Birst. Brad has spent the last 10 years building analytics products and solutions. Prior to working at Birst, he helped found and later led the Analytics product line at Siebel Systems which forms the basis of Oracle’s current OBIEE product family. Recognizing the limitations of enterprise analytics offerings and the revolutionary power of Cloud technologies, Brad founded Birst in 2005. Brad started his career as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley in the New York M&A practice. Brad regularly blogs for Forbes.com where he writes about Cloud and business software related issues. Brad received a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionBirst is based in San Francisco, CA. We focus on bringing the benefits of fact-based decision making to a much broader audience than ever before by providing enterprise-class analysis and reporting that is quick to deploy, easy to use, and affordable. Founded in 2005 by Business Intelligence experts (founding team of Siebel Analytics which became Oracle OIBEE), we focus on what we call Agile Business Analytics—a single place to manage all of your organization’s analytics along with the agility to answer questions that span departments, data sources, and deployments.
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Birstbirst.comFounded: 2005
Management Team Brad Peters, CEO and Co-Founder; Paul Staelin, VP, Customer Success and Co-Founder; Ryan Ried, VP, WW Sales; Rick Spickelmier, CTO and VP of Engineering; Wynn White, VP, WW Marketing; Sharon Gordon, VP, Alliances and Partners; Stefan Schmitz, VP, Product Management; Andrew Marks, VP, Professional Services
Product OverviewBirst approaches business analytics differently. We provide the agility and deployment flexibility of SaaS, while retaining the capabilities of enterprise-class BI. Birst offers a robust, multi-tenant BI platform that unifies traditional siloed BI technologies, automates data management tasks, and greatly reduces complexity—speeding deployments and reducing overall costs. Birst is delivered either as SaaS or via an appliance (which can be installed on-premise behind a firewall). Birst offers visualization capabilities including dashboards, reporting, ad-hoc queries, and mobile support, while additionally providing fully integrated ETL, data warehousing, OLAP, and more. Birst provides powerful analytics to organizations of all sizes, without dependency on IT. With the Birst solution, an organization can take raw data and turn it into actionable insight quickly and easily.
InvestorsSequoia Capital, Doug Leone; Hummer Winblad, John Hummer; DAG Ventures, Young Chung
Go To Market StrategyDirect sales through in-field and inside sales team accounts for two thirds of business. Indirect sales to other ISVs who embed Birst for their analytics solutions (OEM) accounts for remaining one third.
PartnersTechnology partners include Par Accel, SnapLogic, Informatica, and Salesforce.com. GTM partners include BlueWolf, Tricore, Cervello, DMG, and numerous others.
Recent Announcementshttp://www.birst.com/company/press numerous announcements since start of year, including customer wins, new partnerships, survey findings, awards won, etc. Major recent announcements include:May 2: Funding announcement ($26M from Sequoia Growth)February 8: Hadoop supporDecember 15: First relational in-memory database for analyticsSeptember 27: First SaaS-based appliance for BI
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Nova [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Nova Spivack is a technology futurist, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and one of the leading voices on the next-generation of search, social media, and the Web.
Nova is presently CEO of Bottlenose, a startup that is spearheading the next evolution of search and discovery on the social Web.
He also advises and/or invests in several startups including Klout, The Daily Dot, StreamGlider, Live Matrix, Chronos Trading, PublishThis, Sensentia, Cambrian Genomics, and Energy Magnification Corporation.
In 1994, Nova co-founded one of the first Web startups, EarthWeb, which led to a record-breaking IPO in 1998, and a second IPO of spinout, DICE.com, in 2007.
He then worked with Stanford Research International (SRI), to co-found their startup incubator, nVention (which launched SIRI), and participated in the DARPA CALO program, one of the largest artificial intelligence projects in US history. Following that, he co-founded Radar Networks, which produced Twine, one of the first consumer applications of the Semantic Web.
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He is chairman of The Earth Dashboard initiative, a non-profit initiative to build a shared online dashboard to visualize the real-time state of the planet.
Nova also serves on the board of directors of the Common Crawl Foundation, a nonprofit, 5+ billion page, free and open search index of the Web.
Nova is a frequent speaker and blogger, and writes guest-articles for publications such as TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOM, and SiliconAngle.
He has authored more than 30 granted and pending patents in areas from search, to advertising, social media, mobile apps, the semantic web, augmented reality, interactive TV, and personalization.
Nova earned his BA in Philosophy from Oberlin College in 1991, with a focus on the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. In 1992, he attended the International Space University, a NASA-funded graduate-level professional school for the space industry. He also participated in research at the MIT Computer Science lab.
You can find him on Twitter at @novaspivack and via his blog, novaspivack.com.
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionBottlenose provides a breakthrough patent-pending technology for making sense of high volume, real-time information streams from social media, news feeds, and messaging apps. The company’s core technology solves many of the key challenges of “Big Data” for the real-time social enterprise.
The company was founded in 2010 by serial-entrepreneur Nova Spivack (EarthWeb, Dice, SRI, Klout), and CTO Dominiek ter Heide. Bottlenose has raised seed-funding from a number of leading angel investors and early-stage funds, including Gil Elbaz (Google, Factual), Andy Jenks (Autonomy, EMC), and Mark Lewis (EMC). The product is presently in beta and has received very positive reviews. The company is planning to raise a Series A round in 2012.
Management TeamNova Spivack, CEO; Dominiek ter Heide, CTO
Bottlenosebottlenose.comFounded: 2010
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Product OverviewBottlenose, the company’s Web-based portal, is the most powerful way to monitor and make sense of what is happening now on the social web. It provides a breakthrough way to instantly detect, monitor and visualize real-time emerging trends as they spread across the social web and news media. It is being used by social media influencers, marketers, global brands, government agencies, journalists, and enterprises to track and monitor their interests, influencers, customers, and markets.
The company’s “StreamOS” platform enables the development of high-performance real-time sense-making and discovery applications on the Bottlenose dashboard. The platform applies natural language processing, semantic search, information filtering, visualization, and business process automation to a growing array of real-time stream APIs. It is written entirely in Javascript and HTML5, and utilizes a novel distributed computing architecture.
InvestorsThe company has raised seed-funding from a number of well-regarded early-stage funds and angel investors, including Gil Elbaz (Google, Factual), Andy Jenks (Autonomy, EMC), and Mark Lewis (EMC), Stage One Capital, and others. Details can be found at http://angel.co/bottlenose.
Go To Market StrategyThe company has been in beta since December of 2011. The go-to-market strategy is a “freemium” model—namely, to provide a free app targeting individual professionals, teams and SMBs, and then to up-sell optional paid enterprise levels of service to customers who require more storage, security, automation, admin control, reporting, and integration capabilities.
PartnersThe company is in discussion with several large enterprise software companies about potential partnering, but no announcements have been made yet.
Recent AnnouncementsIn May of 2012, the company launched Beta 3.0 of Bottlenose.com, to very positive reviews in TechCrunch and several other publications. See http://press.bottlenose.com for details.
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Mike MillerFounder, Chief [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Mike enjoys putting algorithms in the wild, solving problems for the first time, and building things. He honed his computing skills while studying the universe’s fundamental particles and interactions, most recently at the Large Hadron Collider where he cut his teeth on Petabyte per second problems. At Cloudant he enjoys seeing his ideas transformed into superior code by an outstanding team. Mike holds a Ph. D. in Particle Physics from Yale, was a Pappalardo Fellow in Physics at MIT, and is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington
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Cloudantcloudant.comFounded: 2008
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionCloudant provides developers of big data and other data-driven web and mobile applications with the world’s first globally distributed “data layer as a service” for loading, storing, analyzing, and distributing application data. The Cloudant Data Layer is a managed service that helps developers to eliminate the delays, costs, and distractions inherent in working with databases and their administrators, while providing unmatched scalability, availability, and performance. This capability accelerates time-to-market and time-to-innovation, because it frees developers from the mechanics of data management so they can focus exclusively on creating great applications. Cloudant is privately held and backed by top-tier investors including Avalon Ventures and Y Combinator.
Management TeamDerek Schoettle, CEO; Adam Kocoloski, CTO & Co-Founder; Alan Hoffman, VP Products & Co-Founder; Mike Miller, CSO & Co-Founder; Andy Ellicott, VP Marketing; Jim Peers, VP Finance; Rob O’Brien, VP Customer Service; Brad Noble, VP Product Design & User Experience
Product Overview The Cloudant Data Layer is a managed service for developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps who want a data layer they can grow into, not out of.
• Cloudant is a JSON database accessed via a RESTful, CouchDB-compatible API.
• It distributes data across a global network of data centers for fast, non-stop access from anywhere.
• It makes data replication and sync, text search and advanced analytics easy to do.
InvestorsAvalon Ventures, Y Combinator
Go To Market/Sales StrategyThe Cloudant Data Layer is offered to developers of large-scale or fast-growing on-line apps such as those found in mobile computing, on-line gaming, marketing & advertising analytics, on-line learning and education and others.
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Cloudant enables them to build high-velocity “big-data” applications faster and grow them bigger to reach a global user base without having to hire IT operations people to do so.
Cloudant is a NoSQL database service that is easier to develop with than SQL databases (e.g., MySQL). It is operated and scaled by the experts at Cloudant on behalf of its clients, unlike scale-it-yourself SQL and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) alternatives. Unlike other cloud database services (e.g., Amazon DynamoDB), only Cloudant offers the ability to replicate & sync data (for mobile & off-line apps) and scale globally—across data centers—for low-latency, non-stop access to data by users anywhere.
Cloudant is licensed on a monthly subscription basis with prices ranging from $0 per month to several thousand per month depending on level of service. As of May 2012, Cloudant has over 150 paying customers, and over 7,000 people have signed up for the free service.
PartnersSoftLayer, Microsoft, Amazon, Heroku (Salesforce.com), Joyent
Recent AnnouncementsMay 22, 2012: Cloudant Industry-First Data Layer as a Service Now Global.May 9, 2012: Cloudant to Contribute Big Data Capabilities to Apache CouchDB ProjectApril 11, 2012: Cloudant Data Layer as a Service Adds Support for Joyent CloudFebruary 27, 2012: Cloudant Names Andy Palmer to Board of Directors
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Billy Bosworth [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Billy is responsible for the day-to-day operations of DataStax. He has 20 years of experience in the database industry in roles ranging from DBA to senior executive. Prior to DataStax, Billy spent 6 years at Quest Software, a provider of systems management software, where his most recent role was VP and GM of the database business unit. Under his leadership, the industry-leading Quest database business grew from supporting traditional relational databases to a portfolio that now includes tools for cloud, NoSQL, columnar, and Hadoop databases, as well as business intelligence offerings. Prior to Quest, Billy led product teams for Embarcadero Technologies’ database productivity solutions. Billy holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of Louisville.
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COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionDataStax offers products and services based on the popular open-source database, Apache Cassandra™ that solve today’s most challenging big data problems. DataStax Enterprise combines the performance of Cassandra with analytics powered by Apache Hadoop and enterprise search with Apache Solr, creating a smartly integrated, big data platform. With DataStax Enterprise, real-time, analytic, and search workloads never conflict, giving you maximum performance with the added benefit of only managing a single database.
The company has over 140 customers, including leaders such as Netflix, Disney, Cisco, Rackspace and Constant Contact, and spans verticals including web, financial services, telecommunications, logistics and government. DataStax is backed by industry leading investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital and is based in San Mateo, CA.
Management TeamBilly Bosworth, CEO; Tom Aliotti, SVP Worldwide sales; Jonathan Ellis, CTO and Co-Founder; Matt Pfeil, VP of Customer Solutions and Co-Founder; Robin Schumacher, VP Products; Martin van Ryswyk, VP Engineering
Product OverviewAt DataStax, we provide world-class products and services that help you move faster in the complicated world of handling big data. By leveraging the power of Apache Cassandra™, our solutions deliver continuous availability without compromising operational simplicity, performance, or cost effectiveness. With DataStax, you can focus on your big data applications instead of battling complicate or inadequate infrastructure, no matter what the business throws your way.
DataStax Enterprise 2.0DataStax OpsCenter Enterprise Edition
DataStax Community 2.0DataStax OpsCenter Community Edition
DataStaxdatastax.comFounded: 2010
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InvestorsLightspeed Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital
Go To Market StrategyDirect marketing outreach to business and IT buyers seeking big data solutions. Well-known brand name customers adopting rapidly and providing reference and referrals to leverage sales.
DataStax has made high profile contributions as committers to Apache Software Foundation by our own technical team. Brand positioning includes engagement to Influence LOB and IT decision makers through participation in cutting-edge software developer communities.
Targeting Enterprise 2000 large Federal Agencies in North America and expanding coverage to EMEA and South America.
PartnersHP, Pentaho, Datameer, Quest, Digital Reasoning, Rackspace
Recent AnnouncementsMay 10: DataStax Enterprise 2.0 available with HP Cloud Services Customers can now run their Big Data workloads on DataStax Enterprise on HP Cloud Services, with operational simplicity and unmatched scalability.
March 21: DataStax Enterprise 2.0 released. The industry’s first complete big data solution designed to manage real-time, analytic, and now enterprise search data, all in the same database cluster. The platform delivers a comprehensive, integrated data management solution that manages real-time data with Cassandra, provides batch analytic capabilities with Apache Hadoop, and enables enterprise search on that same data with Apache Solr.
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Jedidiah YuehPresident and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
In 1999, Jedidiah Yueh founded Avamar, a software company that pioneered data de-duplication and shipped a billion-dollar product in the backup and recovery industry, with over 20,000 current customers. Today, de-duplication is a high priority for enterprise data centers, and the technology has become a must-have feature or product for major storage and software vendors. Data de-duplication strips away redundant data to make disks more cost effective than tape media for storing a wide variety of data types, such as daily, repeated backup sets. EMC acquired Avamar in November 2006 for $165 million. EMC executives have stated that Avamar is the best performing investment for EMC since VMware.
Yueh has demonstrated a successful track record for identifying new market opportunities and staying ahead of industry trends. As VP of Product Management at EMC, Yueh helped launch the Avamar Data Store and the Avamar Virtual Edition in 2007, two innovative and successful products that have helped EMC maintain a leadership position in the industry. Prior to Avamar, Yueh served as Chief Operating Officer for NTD, an optical storage startup. He brings over a decade of experience in the software and data storage industries and has more than 6 patents or patents pending.
Yueh graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with an AB from Harvard University. Under former President George H. Bush, he was designated a US Presidential Scholar, one of the highest academic achievements awarded nationally.
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Delphixdelphix.comFounded: 2009
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionDelphix enables agile data management through intelligent software that eliminates redundant infrastructure and slow processes. As a result, Delphix customers deliver better business applications more quickly and at lower cost.
Management TeamJed Yueh, CEO; Kevin Mosher, EVP Worldwide Field Ops; Karthik Rau, VP Products and R&D; Rick Caccia VP Marketing
Product OverviewServer virtualization transformed the data center, dramatically lowering the costs and resources required to operate business systems. Those benefits have not yet been realized for enterprise databases and the applications that run on those databases. The costs and time required to approve, create, refresh, and recover enterprise databases have major impact on application development and operations. By virtualizing the data within enterprise databases, Delphix eliminates the need for redundant processes and costs in enterprise application delivery. Using database virtualization, the Delphix Agile Data Platform enables enterprise application teams to: Do 5x More: One major semiconductor firm used Delphix to increase project output by over 500%, completing 11 SAP projects when it previously could complete 2, with the same resources. Pay 10x Less: A global bank cut its database storage costs—both CAPEX and OPEX—by over $18 million per year with Delphix. Cut 5x Risk: A global Consumer Packaged Goods firm eliminated $20 million in annual downtime from SAP application errors by using Delphix for fast recovery and troubleshooting.
InvestorsGreylock, Lightspeed, Jafco
Go To Market StrategyEnterprise sales, through both a direct sales force and regional resellers. Delphix maintains direct commercial presence in North America and EMEA, as well as a direct presence, via cleared sales reps, in the U.S. Federal market.
Recent AnnouncementsApril 12, 2012: Delphix Expands Agile Data Platform to Support Oracle ExadataMarch 20, 2012: Delphix Selected By AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 WinnerMarch 14, 2012: Delphix Recognized By Computerworld As A 2012 Computerworld Honors LaureateDecember 8, 2011: Delphix and Informatica Receive Ventana Research 2011 Leadership Award
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Bart LorangCEO & [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Mr. Lorang is a proven entrepreneur, executive and manager in the global technology industry. Mr. Lorang is active in the startup technology community as an angel investor, strategic advisor and occasional speaker at industry events.
Bart serves as Co-Founder & CEO of FullContact. Mr. Lorang is responsible for communicating FullContact’s vision and strategy. Mr. Lorang is a visionary technologist with extensive experience conceiving, designing, building, marketing and selling enterprise software solutions on a global scale.
Bart sits on the Advisory Board of Education Funding Partners.
Prior to founding FullContact, Mr. Lorang was an owner in Dimension Technology Solutions where he served as President and oversaw all day to day operations, customer engagements, partner relations, product development, sales and marketing functions.
Mr. Lorang is recognized for providing solutions that are simple and work reliably. He strongly believes in using technology to solve problems as opposed to using problems to demonstrate technology.
Mr. Lorang holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at University of Denver.
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FullContactfullcontact.comFounded: 2010
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionFullContact is the API that turns partial contacts into full contacts. FullContact provides identity resolution for all of the disparate pieces of contact information out there on the web. We do this by aggregating billions of contact records, all with numerous attributes, including quality, freshness and frequency. Our patent pending algorithms process all of this data and automatically produce clean, accurate full contact records we provide to thousands of developers worldwide.
Management TeamBart Lorang, CEO, Co-Founder; Dan Lynn, CTO, Co-Founder; Travis Todd, COO, Co-Founder; Ben Deda, VP, Business Development.
Product OverviewFullContact is the API that turns partial contacts into full contacts, complete with rich social profiles. FullContact’s contact management APIs provide data enrichment, secure cloud storage, intelligent merging, de-duplication, normalization and much more.
InvestorsTango, High Country Venture David Cohen, Bullet Time Ventures Social Leverage, Howard Lindzon SK Ventures, Eric Norlin & Paul Kedrosky 500 Startups, Dave McClure Zelkova VC TechStars
Go To Market StrategyProvide API for software developers to incorporate our capability into their apps and delight end users. We build developer awareness through hackathons, developer challenges, and developer outreach events. Ultimately, the product manager is our end customer, and we reach the product manager once developers are aware of our offering and know that it works.
PartnersAll of our customers and developers are partners: http://www.fullcontact.com/appgallery/. Other partners include Amazon Web Services (hosting).
Recent Announcementshttp://www.fullcontact.com/category/release/
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Justin BorgmanCEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Justin is Co-Founder and CEO of Hadapt. Prior to Hadapt, Justin led product development for COVECTRA, an anti-counterfeit technology firm. Before that, Justin founded an online social media company and spent the first six years of his career as a software developer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Raytheon.Justin has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, and attended graduate school at the Yale School of Management.
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionHadapt transforms Hadoop into the ideal data warehousing analytics platform, allowing customers to store and rapidly analyze structured and unstructured data in one infinitely scalable system. Using a hybrid database architecture to combine the high performance of relational DBMS’s with the scalability of Hadoop, Hadapt performs SQL queries 50x faster than Hadoop while running on inexpensive commodity hardware or in a cloud environment.
Hadapt offers an adaptive analytical platform for performing complex analytics on structured and unstructured data, all in one cloud-optimized system.
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Hadapthadapt.comFounded: 2010
Management TeamJustin Borgman, CEO and Co-Founder; Dr. Daniel Abadi, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder; Philip Wickline, CTO; Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Chief Software; Architect and Co-Founder; Kelly Stirman, Vice President of Customer Solutions
Dr. Daniel Abadi, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Daniel is a recognized expert in database systems and one of the inventors of the patent-pending Adaptive Analytical Platform™. Daniel received his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his dissertation on column-store database systems led to the founding of Vertica (recently acquired by Hewlett Packard). He is a recipient of a Churchill Scholarship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2008 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the 2007 VLDB best paper award.
Product OverviewThe Hadapt Adaptive Analytic Platform™ is the first big data platform to combine the benefits of Apache Hadoop and relational DBMS technology into a single system for applications that rely on multi-structured data analytics. Hadapt was designed for the cloud, and is optimized for virtualized environments. In addition to providing the full power of MapReduce, Hadapt offers enhanced SQL support and the ability to work with all of your data within one platform.
InvestorsBessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners
Go to Market StrategyDirect Sales to mid to large B2C companies.
PartnersCloudera
Recent Announcementshttp://www.hadapt.com/news
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Zuzanna Pasierbinska-WilsonVP [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Zuzanna has been responsible for Huddle’s brand and marketing since 2008, from its humble beginnings as the UK’s favorite B2B start-up to becoming the global leader in cloud collaboration and content management for the enterprise.
Former published sociologist and social researcher at the Centre for European Studies, Zuzanna began her 13-year marketing career at a leading B2B communications consultancy Rainier. Here she worked with Texas Instruments, Wind River and Virgin Media Business. As a part of the management team, she was instrumental in the rapid company and revenue growth until its acquisition by Loewy Group. Zuzanna also co-founded Custard, a consultancy specializing in digital media and mobile. Its client list boasted innovative start-ups such as AdMob (now Google) as well as top global brands, including Disney, ICQ and Garmin.
Zuzanna holds an MA in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University and MSc in Public Relations from the University of Stirling. She is the founder of Silicon Stilettos, a meet-up for women in tech and start-ups and regularly speaks on branding and organizational change through collaboration.
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Huddle huddle.comFounded: 2006
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionHuddle is the enterprise content collaboration company that is helping organizations across the globe to collaborate intelligently. Co-headquartered in London and San Francisco and with offices in New York City, Huddle’s customers include 80 percent of Fortune 500 and 75 percent of UK central government, and companies such as Diageo, Kia Motors and PwC. The company is privately held and backed by venture capital firms DAG Ventures, Eden Ventures.
Management TeamAlastair Mitchell, Co-Founder and CEO; Andy McLoughlin, Co-Founder and EVP Strategy; Jonathan Howell, CTO; Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson, VP Marketing; Simon O’Kane, VP Enterprise; Matt Wise, VP Global Sales; Jon Landau, VP Customer Success; Stephen Robinson, Corporate Controller
Product OverviewHuddle’s intelligent collaboration platform is revolutionizing enterprise content management by enabling organizations to store, discover, share and work on content with others securely in the cloud. Its patent-pending intelligent technology locates and recommends valuable information to users, with no need for search.
InvestorsEden Ventures, Matrix Partners, Jafco Ventures, DAG
Go To Market StrategyHuddle develops and markets an intelligent content collaboration platform, which enables enterprises and government organizations to store, discover, share and work on content with others securely in the cloud.In today’s knowledge economy, the most successful companies are those that make the best use of information. Yet traditional ECM systems are failing to support the new ways in which people are now sharing information and working together. Traditional ECM systems were designed for content storage, not collaboration; for servers—not for the cloud.
Huddle is revolutionizing the ECM market by making it collaborative, social, ubiquitously accessible and intelligent. It provides organizations with a viable alternative to legacy SharePoint systems and is loved by IT professionals and end users alike. In short, it effective supports new ways of working that our now prevalent in today’s enterprises.
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Due to the horizontal nature of Huddle all organizations need to collaborate and work with people inside and outside of their four walls securely. The company markets to CIOs worldwide across a wide range of industries, including:
• Creative agencies.• Government• Manufacturing• Professional Services• FMCG• Pharmaceuticals• Health
Huddle markets to its audience of CIOs via direct, SEO, PPC and brand/visibility PR campaigns, as well as third party lead generation providers. These campaigns highlight Huddle’s differentiators from the likes of SharePoint:
• Intelligence• Enterprise collaboration without limits• Huddle Sync• External• TCO• True Uptime™ money-back guarantee• Adoption guaranteed• Mobility
Around 90 percent of Huddle’s leads are inbound.
PartnersInterCall, Apple, Itochu
Recent AnnouncementsMay 24, 2012: Huddle nets $24 million in Series C funding to bring intelligent collaboration to the enterprise.http://www.huddle.com/about/news/press-releases/huddle-announces-series-c-funding/.February 21, 2012: Huddle unveils Huddle Sync, world’s first intelligent file synchronization platform for the enterprise.http://www.huddle.com/about/news/press-releases/huddle-unveils-huddle-sync/.January 24, 2012: Huddle breaks down barriers to collaboration with Unlimited Enterprise offering and True Uptime™ money-back guarantee.http://www.huddle.com/about/news/press-releases/huddle-breaks-down-barriers-to-collaboration/.
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Waqar Hasan CEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Waqar brings 20 years experience in the Data and Internet areas, building high-energy organizations and delivering leading edge products delivered as software or operated as a service. During his five-year tenure at Yahoo! as Vice President of Data Systems, Waqar led and managed Yahoo!’s data platform that served all lines of business including Audience properties, Search and Brand advertising. Analyzing data from 500 million consumers, these remain among the largest-scale systems in the world, affect nearly all of Yahoo!’s revenue streams, and have substantially increased both monetization and consumer engagement.
Waqar founded DB Wizards (acquired by Adeosoft), ran the optimizer team at Informix (now IBM), worked on data research at HP Labs and IBM Almaden, and has consulted for companies such as Microsoft, Visa, Reed-Elsevier and Deloitte.
Waqar received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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InsightsOneinsightsone.comFounded: 2010
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionInsightsOne is a pioneer in predictive analytics solutions enabled by big data.
Management TeamWaqar Hasan, CEO and Founder; Joy Thomas, Chief Scientist and Founder; Jagdish Chand, VP Engineering and Founder; Shubhasheesh Anand, VP Solutions
Product OverviewInsightsOne has developed a breakthrough technology platform to deliver predictive analytic services to consumer-facing companies. The platform combines the power of big data and strong science to help our customers achieve predictive analytic capabilities comparable to the leading internet companies such as Amazon, Google and Yahoo!
Our Precision Targeting service allows marketers to target offers on email, websites, In-App and mobile channels. Our customers are seeing profit increases in line or exceeding McKinsey’s projection of 10% to 30% while at the same time improving consumer experience by delivering more relevant offers.
InvestorsNorwest Venture Partners Gaurav Garg, Special Limited Partner Sequoia Capital, Zod Nazem, Former CTO Yahoo!, Peter Wagner Former General Partner Accel Partners
Go To Market StrategyDirect Sales to mid to large B2C companies.
Recent Announcementshttp://insightsone.com/news.html
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Ken EpsteinDirector of Agency Relations and Social [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Ken Epstein is Integrate’s Director of Agency Relations and Social Retail. He is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key agencies and brands including Ogilvy, Response Media, Razorfish, Disney, Proctor & Gamble, Nautilus, Nordstrom and more.
Ken’s 20 years’ experience in digital advertising and technology centers around business development, sales and marketing leadership roles in online technology, data-storage, software and digital advertising at companies. His focuses on developing and executing marketing and monetization strategies for digital businesses including CPA, CPC and CPM advertising models as well as implementation of effective customer acquisition and subscription plans.
Prior to Integrate, Ken served as VP of Business Development at MediaTrust and led their strategic partnerships and acquisition efforts. He co-founded KDE/Pismo Group, an interactive consulting agency. He also facilitated various start-up organizations, including Sitesmith and Level Studios, with their market penetration and preparation for merger and acquisition events.
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COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionIntegrate is a technology and solutions provider for multi-channel performance marketing that allows B2B and B2C advertisers to plan, execute, track, analyze and optimize their marketing strategies.
Management TeamJeremy Bloom, Co-Founder; Hart Cunningham, CEO
Product OverviewIntegrate offers four industry-leading performance solutions ranging from self-serve and fully managed models to customized white-label versions for agencies and corporations. Each solution provides a complete ad-serving &tracking suite and advanced analytics. Integrate’s Audience Analysis delivers audience reports of demographics, behaviors, interests and purchase patterns. Media attribution analysis is currently under development.
InvestorsComcast Ventures (Series B) Liberty Global (Series B) Foundry Group (Series A, Series B).
Go To Market StrategyOur go-to-market strategy is to take a top down approach to the advertising landscape. We place emphasis on bringing all single points solutions into a unified system, enabling advertisers to manage their marketing strategies from end-to-end.
PartnersNY Life, NBC Universal, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, DegreeJava, IDG, Hautelook
Recent Announcements• Series B Funding• Release of Audience Analysis• American Business Awards Finalist for Most Innovative Company and
Fastest Growing Company
Integrateintegrate.comFounded: 2010
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Anthony Goldbloom CEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Anthony is the founder and CEO of Kaggle. Before founding Kaggle, Anthony worked in the macroeconomic modeling areas of the Reserve Bank of Australia and before that the Australian Treasury.
He holds a first class honours degree in economics and econometrics from the University of Melbourne and has published in The Economist magazine and the Australian Economic Review.
In 2011, Forbes Magazine cited Anthony as one of the 30 under 30 in technology and Fast Company featured him as one of the innovative thinkers who are changing the future of business.
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Kagglekaggle.comFounded: 2010
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionKaggle is a platform for predictive modeling competitions.
Management TeamAnthony Goldbloom, Founder and CEO; Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist; Rich Sorkin, CRO and CFO
Product OverviewCompanies today are collecting piles of data, but lack the ability to extract its full value. Kaggle addresses this problem by offering a platform for predictive modeling competitions (a la the Netflix Prize). Companies post their data and have it scrutinized by data scientists with diverse backgrounds. By using a competition format to introduce the problem to a wide audience, Kaggle allows companies to achieve the best possible predictive accuracy. Kaggle has never failed to outperform a pre-existing accuracy benchmark, and to do so resoundingly.
InvestorsIndex Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Max Levchin, Hal Varian, Data Collective, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Stanford Management Company
Go To Market StrategyFocus on targeted verticals through direct sales. We typically start with a pilot project to prove Kaggle’s value. This leads into enterprise-wide deployments. The next stage is to build distribution partnerships with large system integrators, consulting firms and technology companies.
PartnersMicrosoft Windows Azure
Recent Announcements• Released a data science ranking system (NYTimes)• Kaggle as Wired UK’s Startup of the Week (Wired)• Launch of a high profile prize for the Hewlett Foundation (Huffington Post• Launch of a high profile competition on the Microsoft Kinect (Techcrunch,
ReadWriteWeb, Venture Beat)• Kaggle founder named as a Forbes 30 Under 30 (Forbes, Australian
Financial Review)
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Paul [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Paul fundamentally believes that enterprise search is the enabling technology that will allow companies to realize the true value from their Big Data. As CEO, Paul is responsible for Lucid Imagination’s vision and success in the enterprise-wide search, discovery and analytics market. He comes to Lucid with 30 years of sales, marketing and business management experience within high-tech enterprise software.
Prior to Lucid, Paul held the position of CEO for Exalead Inc, a global provider of enterprise search, where he led the company from 2008 through 2011. In 2003, Paul became CEO and one of the principal founders for JasperSoft, one of the top commercial open source business intelligence platforms in the market. In 2000, Paul joined Vmware as the company’s EVP of world-wide field operations where he defined and executed the distribution strategy that formed the basis of the company’s world-wide success. Earlier in his career, Paul held positions within companies including General Manager of Americas for Business Objects (Now SAP), Vice President of world-wide channels and marketing for Entrust and Vice President of US channels for Oracle.
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COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionLucid Imagination is the trusted name in Search, Discovery and Analytics, delivering the only enterprise-grade embedded search development solution built on the power of the Apache Lucene/Solr open source search project. Founded in 2008, the company initially provided support, consulting services, documentation and training for the Apache Lucene/Solr open source search project. Within a few years, the Lucid team realized the need to add value to the open source search platform by developing an extensive layer of services which made Lucene/Solr secure and easier to use and manage. The company shipped its first version of its commercial product, LucidWorks Enterprise, in 2011, followed by LucidWorks Cloud in January 2012 and LucidWorks Big Data on May 07, of this year. Although Lucid continues to offer support, documentation, consulting services and training products for Lucene/Solr, the bulk of its revenue is derived from customers purchasing one of the three LucidWorks Search Platform products. Lucid remains committed to giving back to the Apache Lucene/Solr community. Out of the 35 Core Committers to the Apache Lucene/Solr project, 9 individuals work for Lucid Imagination, making the company the largest supporter of open source search in the industry. Further, Lucid hosts the Lucene Revolution, a conference dedicated to sharing ideas and promoting the Apache Lucene/Solr open source search project.
Management TeamPaul Doscher, CEO; Frank Calderon, COO; Nancy Colwell, CMO; Mike Moody, SVP Devops; Grant Ingersoll, Chief Scientist
Product OverviewThe LucidWorks Search Platform delivers full Apache Lucene/Solr community innovation from the world’s leading experts in open source search. An extensible platform architected for developers, LucidWorks is the only Lucene/Solr distribution that provides ease of use, security, abstraction and pre-built connectors for essential enterprise data sources, all within a well-tested, integrated and documented package. The LucidWorks Search Platform delivers unmatched scalability to billions of documents, with sub-second query and faceting response time. By expanding the scalable power of Apache Lucene/Solr open source technology with vital new features, the experts at Lucid Imagination have created an integrated search platform that simplifies and empowers predictable, reliable search application development.
Lucid Imaginationlucidimagination.comFounded: 2008
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Lucid offers three products under the LucidWorks solution umbrella—all of which utilize the LucidWorks Search Platform as their base to accelerate and simplify development of highly accurate, scalable and cost-effective search applications. LucidWorks Search Platform delivers full open source Apache Lucene/Solr community innovation in a convenient, commercial-grade package, with global 24x7 support from the world’s leading expert in open source search.
• LucidWorks Enterprise: on-premise embedded search implementations• LucidWorks Cloud: cloud-based implementations such as Search-as-a-
Service for Websites, embedding search into SaaS product offerings and prototyping or developing cloud-based search enabled applications in general
• LucidWorks Big Data: fully integrated stack for prototyping and developing search on multi-structured public and private Big Data sources (can be deployed on premise or in the cloud)
InvestorsGranite Ventures, Walden International, Shasta Ventures, In-Q-Tel
Go To Market StrategyCommercial Open Source model: offering support, professional services and training for Apache Lucene/Solr open source search and a recurring license fees for upgrading to LucidWorks Enterprise, LucidWorks Cloud and/or LucidWorks Big Data. Hosted license fees are additional for LucidWorks Cloud and LucidWorks Big Data if deployed in the cloud.
PartnersDistribution Partners: ISS (federal), Xtreme Insights, Zaloni, Applied Dynamic Solutions, Base2Services, Basis Technology, eSR, Findwise, Flax, GetSet Solutions, Innovent Solutions, lxxus, Kippdata Gmgh, Knowledge Focus, Lightcrest OpenSource Connections, Primeware/Semantix, Retresco, Rivet Logic, SHI, Sourcesense, Westernacher, Serch Technologies, Uchida Spectrum, SpringSense, SalsaDev, DdadIT, Buzzamite, Questio, Grid Dynamics
Technology Partners: SugarCRM, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM, MapR, Microsoft, Kitenga, Teresata
Recent AnnouncementsMay 09, 2012: Lucid Imagination Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data to Tackle the Problem of Dark DataApril 24, 2012: Lucid Imagination Technology Integration with SugarCRM Lets Customers Enjoy Improved Global Search Capabilities with Apache Lucene/Solr
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Eric FrenkielCEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Eric is the Co-Founder and CEO of MemSQL, a memory-optimized, distributed database that is 30x faster than conventional databases on disk. Prior to MemSQL, Eric worked in partnership development at Facebook and has worked in both engineering and sales engineering capacities at other Silicon Valley startups. Eric was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 innovators in technology in 2011. Eric graduated from Stanford University’s School of Engineering and is originally from Orange County, California.
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MemSQLmemsql.comFounded: 2011
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionFounded in early 2011 by former Facebook and SQL Server engineers, MemSQL brings the power of in-memory technology to companies that must rapidly process and analyze data. MemSQL is a Y-Combinator alum based in San Francisco with 15 employees.
Management TeamEric Frenkiel, CEO; Nikita Shamgunov, CTO
Product OverviewMemSQL is a scalable, memory-optimized database that is 30x faster that databases on disk. MemSQL is the ideal solution for workloads which require guaranteed responsiveness. rapid processing, or real-time analytics. MemSQL is easily integrated into existing infrastructure and is capable of processing hundreds of thousands of queries per second on one machine.
InvestorsFirst Round Capital, NEA, SV Angel, DST, Y Combinator, et al.
Go to Market StrategyDirect with capacity-based pricing.
Recent AnnouncementsLaunching June 18, 2012.
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Michael DriscollCEO & Co-Founder [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Michael is a serial entrepreneur who has built data platforms in life sciences, online retail, and digital media over the past decade. Michael began his career as a software engineer for Human Genome Project, and later founded CustomInk.com, an early pioneer in customized apparel. More recently, Michael conceived and led Dataspora, where he remains Chairman, helping deliver data science to telcos, insurance firms, and retail banks. Michael holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University. He enjoys speaking and writing about big data and analytics.
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Metamarketsmetamarkets.comFounded: 2010
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionMetamarkets enables online companies to use their data to increase revenue, improve user engagement, and avoid operational surprises. The company’s leading-edge analytics platform delivers real-time insight on web-scale data in a way that is easy and appealing for end users. Customers are able to get started quickly and scale easily using Metamarkets’ cloud-based solution.
Metamarkets is headquartered in San Francisco.
Management TeamMike Driscoll, CEO; Eric Tschetter, Lead Architect; Charlene Son Rigby, VP Sales & Operations
Product OverviewMetamarkets is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that enables online companies to easily discover new insights using Big Data. This results in better, faster decisions and frees up the analytics team to conduct the rich analysis they were hired to perform.
InvestorsIA Ventures, True Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Village Ventures, AOL Ventures
PartnersAWS (Amazon) App Store, Demand Media, Financial Times, MoPub
Go To Market Sales StrategyMetamarkets offers a new generation of cloud-hosted, mobile-oriented firms a SaaS solution for big data analytics: data science as a service. Our intuitive, exploratory dashboard product helps data scientists deliver value to decision-makers.
We are launching a self-service product in the summer of 2012 to help bring our offering to small and medium firms beyond the enterprise market that we currently serve.
Recent Announcements$15M Series B led by Khosla Ventures. http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/26/metamarkets-raises-15m/
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Barry MorrisCEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Barry Morris is an accomplished software CEO with over 25 years of industry experience in the USA and Europe, running private and public companies ranging in scale from early startup phase to 1,000+ employees. He loves to build companies around industry-changing paradigm-shifts in technology.
Prior to co-founding NuoDB, Inc. with CTO Jim Starkey (among Jim’s innovations: BLOB datatype, MySQL Falcon storage engine, Interbase, MVCC, Netfrastructure, etc.), Barry was CEO of StreamBase Systems, where he took an MIT project led by Dr. Michael Stonebraker (main architect of Ingres & Postgres, CTO of VoltDB) and built it into the market pioneer and leader in Complex Event Processing (CEP). Before then, he was the CEO of IONA Technologies, Ireland’s most successful software company with over 10,000 customers, 270 technology partners, and over $180m in revenues.
Barry was born in South Africa and has lived for extended periods in England, Ireland, and Boston, MA. He has a Degree in Engineering from New College Oxford University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from the IMCA.
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NuoDB nuodb.comFounded: 2010
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionNuoDB, Inc. is a Cambridge, MA based startup that provides the industry’s first and only elastically scalable database.
Management TeamBarry Morris, Founder & CEO; Jim Starkey, Founder & CTO; Adam Abrevaya, VP Engineering; Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing
Product OverviewNuoDB is a new kind of database that is specifically architected to scale effortlessly on the cloud without compromising on any of the features or guarantees of relational databases. The NuoDB database is SQL-compliant, highly resilient, requires minimal database administration, guarantees the integrity of transactions, and scales out and in effortlessly on commodity cloud-based resources to deliver high performance at web-scale with highly efficient and flexible resource utilization.
Unlike every other database, NuoDB is built for the cloud from the ground up on an emergent architecture—a shared nothing, asynchronous, peer-to-peer approach that is ideal for the cloud, yet it delivers the power, reliability and functionality of a traditional database.
InvestorsHummer Winblad Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners, New Series B Investor (to be announced in conjunction with NuoDB GA launch in Sept 2012)
Go To Market Sales StrategyNuoDB is targeting Web scale applications that have operational requirements that can’t be met by traditional database technologies. Big data, highly variable peak loads, geographically distributed loads, and 100% uptime requirements.
The NuoDB database can be downloaded and installed in minutes. NuoDB offers a free community version and commercial software for elastically scalable on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployments.
PartnersNuoDB is pursuing partnerships with technology vendors, hosting service providers, OEMs/ISVs, system integrators, and resellers.
Recent Announcements• NuoDB Series B announcement• NuoDB Beta 6 announcement• NuoDB Open Source Initiative on Github
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David ShimCEO and [email protected]
Presenter Biography
David is the Founder and CEO of Placed. Prior to Placed, David held the roles of Director of Product and Operations at Quantcast. As Director of Product he drove Quantcast Marketer from idea to an audience platform used by over 300+ advertisers across 6 billion actions a month. David pivoted to Director of Operations as part of the launch of Quantcast Lookalikes the primary revenue generating product for the company.
Prior to Quantcast, David has held leadership roles at WebTrends, and Farecast (acquired by Microsoft in 2008). Two out of the last 4 companies David has worked at have either had “cast” in the name, or were acquired by Microsoft. David ranks #1 on Google for “Third Party Ad Serving.”
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Placed.complaced.comFounded: 2011
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionPlaced connects the physical world with the digital world. By anonymously measuring, aggregating, and analyzing the paths and place people visit in the real world, Placed is setting the standard for Location Analytics.
Placed is Location Analytics. Founded in 2011, Placed is headquartered in Seattle and was founded by David Shim, who has previously held product and leadership roles at Quantcast, WebTrends, Farecast, and aQuantive. As of May 2012, Placed had processed over 1.5b raw locations through its Inference Pipeline with monthly volume doubling every month since the start of the 2012.
Management TeamDavid Shim, CEO; Weilie Yi, Principal Scientist; Nick Gerner, Director of Engineering; Andrea Eatherly, Director of Marketing and Operations
Product OverviewPlaced for Developers is a free service that translates sensor values like latitude and longitude into Location Analytics for mobile applications.
• Marketers and Developers can start to understand the profile of their mobile audience based on their proximity to places in the physical world.
• Sales teams can leverage Placed’s Location Analytics to close sales and increase CPMs by improving discoverability of places audiences are nearby.
• Product Managers can incorporate place into the product planning process by joining app usage with location insights.
InvestorsMadrona Venture Group, Shane Atchison, David Shim
Go To Market StrategyPlaced for Developers is set to launch to the public in Summer 2012.
PartnersCurrently in Private Beta
Recent AnnouncementsMarch 15th, 2012: Placed exits stealth mode, and announces private beta of Placed for Developers.
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Peter SchlamppVP Products & [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Pete is the VP of Products & Marketing at Platfora. He is responsible for early development, product design, and the roadmap for Platfora’s products. Pete spends most of his time working with Fortune 500-class customers to solve their big data BI needs. Prior to Platfora, he was VP of Products and Marketing at Solera Networks, building network security analytics products to store, search, and analyze every packet traversing 10 GigE networks. Early in his career he lead Products for IronPort Systems—the first company to solve spam at Internet scale—which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007.
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Platforaplatfora.comFounded: 2011
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionIntuitive, dynamic big data interface.
Management TeamBen Werther, Founder & CEO; Peter Schlampp, VP Products & Marketing; John Eshleman, VP Engineering
InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz, Sutter Hill Ventures, In-Q-Tel
Recent AnnouncementsNovember 11, 2011: Platfora closes a series the round was lead by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation by Sutter Hill Ventures, In-Q-Tel and a number of prominent angels and seed investors.
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Kumar Saurabh Co-Founder & VP [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Prior to becoming a Co-Founder of Sumo Logic, Kumar was instrumental in designing and building the data analysis infrastructure for Mint.com (acquired by Intuit). Prior to Mint, Kumar was at ArcSight from 2001 to 2008, where as Director of Engineering he supervised teams responsible for correlation, analytics and compliance solutions deployed on ArcSight ESM and Logger products. He started out building correlation capabilities for the company’s flagship Security Event Monitoring product. Among them is a patented method that he invented to automatically mine security attacks from raw events. Kumar received his M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and B.S. in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur.
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Sumo Logicsumologic.comFounded: 2010
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionSumo Logic is the next generation log management and analytics company that leverages Big Data for real-time IT insights. The company’s cloud-based service provides customers with real-time interactive analytics at unprecedented petabyte scale. The Sumo Logic service is powered by patent-pending Elastic Log Processing™ and LogReduce™ technologies, and transforms log data into actionable insights for IT operations, application management, and security and compliance teams. Unlike expensive and complex premise-based solutions, the Sumo Logic service has a low TCO, can be deployed instantly, scales elastically and requires zero maintenance. The company is based in Silicon Valley and is backed by Greylock Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Management TeamVance Loiselle, CEO & President; Christian Beedgen, Co-Founder & CTO; Kumar Saurabh, Co-Founder & VP Analytics; Bruno Kurtic, VP Product & Strategy; Domingo Miholovic, VP Engineering
InvestorsGreylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures
Product OverviewSumo Logic’s cloud-based service provides customers with real-time log intelligence and analytics, at unprecedented petabyte scale. It allows the users to collect, retain and analyze all their IT log data generated by systems, applications and infrastructure. Sumo Logic users find the service extremely valuable to troubleshoot, monitor and analyze their applications.
Go to Market Sales StrategySumo Logic is available as a cloud based service, allowing them to make it really easy for their users to try before they buy. At the same time, the key target for Sumo Logic remains medium and large enterprises, where the problem of managing and analyzing log data is much more acute. Sumo Logic is planning to address this market with a direct sales model.
Recent AnnouncementsPresented and won both the judges and audience awards at Under The Radar Conference in Performance Monitoring category.
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Justin [email protected]
Presenter Biography
Justin DeLay is on a mission to make sense of the measured world. Fascinated by the promise of the Internet of Things and Personal Informatics to measure and understand our environment, our infrastructure, and ourselves, Justin co-founded Tempo to find insight in massive streams of measurement data. Before Tempo, Justin and his co-founders bootstrapped multiple web businesses, designed award-winning mobile apps, and wrote and recorded a rock album together. Justin is an avid musician, writer, and designer. He holds a Masters in Human Computer Interaction and Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Michigan (Go Blue). Find out more at justindelay.com.
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Tempotempo-db.comFounded: 2011
COMPANY PROFILE
Company DescriptionTempo is the database service for time-series data. Purpose-built to store and analyze all of the sensor data being generated in the world.
Management TeamAndrew Cronk, CEO; Justin DeLay, CMO; Mike Yagley, CTO
Product OverviewProvided as hosted service or virtual private cloud. Enables the storage of massive streams of time-series data, and also instant analysis.
InvestorsSeed round with syndicate of Angels
Go To Market StrategyThree channels: platform plug-in (15%), direct sales (70%), reseller/white label (15%).
PartnersRackspace, SoftLayer, Verizon Wireless
Recent AnnouncementsCompleted TechStars Cloud on April 11, 2012. Raised $750k seed round.
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Gerald Brady is a managing director within SVB’s Venture Capital Group, hired to lead two important initiatives for the company. He is responsible for leading SVB’s Entrepreneur Services Group as well as the company’s work with corporate venture and corporate development groups.
Brady oversees a team dedicated to supporting emerging technology and life science companies, by engaging founders and CEOs with relevant, high-impact programming and networking events to add significant value during their development stages. Brady also maintains and develops relationships with corporate venture and corporate development groups, which the company believes will play an increasingly important role in the venture ecosystem in the future.
Prior to joining SVB, Brady served as the director of investor relations for Siemens AG, where he was responsible for all aspects of investor communications in North America. Before that, Brady was an acquisition director in the Strategic Planning Group at Siemens Corporation, and served as a managing director of Siemens Acceleration USA, which is the early stage venture capital arm of Siemens.
Brady has also worked at 3i in London and Palo Alto, where he was a director, investing in a number of technology businesses, including ActiveCard (ACTI), Bitfone (acquired by HP), Raw Communications (acquired by Thomson Financial) and Winery Exchange. Prior to his work in finance, Brady worked in the Internet and media industry, was part of the UK launch team for ZDNet in 1995, a sales manager for Yahoo! UK when it launched in 1996 and an executive at Ziff-Davis and EMAP Plc.
Brady holds an honors degree from Kingston University, an MBA from Cranfield University and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brady served as chairman of the NVCA’s Corporate Venture Group from 2006-2007.
Gerald BradyManaging DirectorEntrepreneur Services GroupSilicon Valley Bank
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Mr. Hoyem is currently a Partner with In-Q-Tel, an investment firm whose goal is to identify, adapt and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the broader Intelligence Community. He brings more than 25 years of entrepreneurial, operations and venture experience in high technology companies, including positions as managing partner at both Blueprint Ventures and Redleaf Group and various senior management positions at HP, VeriFone, Federal Data Corporation, Tektronix and others. He has also backed, supported, and served in an advisory or board capacity for dozens of emerging technology companies.
George HoyemPartnerIn-Q-Tel
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