Databricks has raised a 250 million dollar Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, and, most tellingly, Microsoft. The dollar figure is big,…
Databricks grew from a seven-person startup into a serious cloud company, and its 140 million Series D, led by Andreessen Horowitz, reflects that. The…
The same year the Hadoop old guard is merging in retreat, Snowflake is doing the opposite: raising a 450 million dollar round that values…
Snowflake has stopped being a promising stealth startup and become one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. It has raised a large…
After two years of near-total silence, Snowflake has come out of stealth and revealed what its three Oracle-veteran founders have been quietly building. It…
Amazon Web Services has launched Redshift, a cloud data warehouse, and in doing so quietly fired one of the opening shots of the modern…
Three data-warehouse experts who spent years at Oracle have walked away to build the thing they believe Oracle never will: a database designed from…