Alluxio builds open-source data orchestration software that moves data closer to analytics and machine-learning compute frameworks across clusters, regions, and clouds to provide memory-speed access to files and objects. Its platform offers intelligent data tiering and data management to deliver consistently high performance to customers in financial services, high tech, retail, and telecommunications. The software is in production use at eight out of the top ten internet companies. With this financing the company plans to expand product capabilities and scale go-to-market and engineering operations globally. Alluxio announced an expanded Asia‑Pacific presence with a new office in Beijing. The company is based in San Mateo, California, and was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open-source project. Alluxio develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud that moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks across clusters, regions, clouds and countries. The system provides memory-speed data access to files and objects and uses intelligent data tiering and data management to deliver high performance. Customers span financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. In the past six months the company added tens of new production deployments, including Alibaba, EA, Nielsen, Roblox, Ryte, Tencent, VIPShop, Walmart, WalkMe and WeRide. Led by founder and CEO Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li, Alluxio raised $15.5M in a Series B and has now raised $23M in total to date. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Alluxio provides a virtual data layer that connects data analytics and machine learning frameworks to data running on premises, in public clouds, or in multi/hybrid cloud environments. Its core product offers intelligent data tiering and data management to deliver consistent high performance. The system is designed to act as a single-source virtual data layer operating at memory speed to support analytics and ML workloads. Alluxio's technology is in production at large organizations including Alibaba, Baidu, Barclays, Comcast, Development Bank of Singapore, ESRI, JD.com, Lenovo, Oracle, PayPal, Tencent and Wells Fargo. The company is led by founder and CEO Haoyuan Li and targets customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. Financially, Alluxio closed an $8.5M Series B and has raised $16M in total to date. Alluxio (formerly Tachyon) provides a memory-centric distributed storage platform that gives compute frameworks like Spark and MapReduce a unified namespace across disparate storage systems. The software uses a tiered storage architecture that caches hot data in memory, with SSDs and HDDs for colder data, effectively acting as a sophisticated cache for big data workloads. The project originated in UC Berkeley’s AMPlab and was founded by Haoyuan Li. Alluxio is launching both Enterprise and Community editions out of beta; the Enterprise edition adds high-availability support, enterprise security, and data replication, while the Community edition is free, certified, and includes drivers for many file systems but lacks replication and Kerberos authentication. The company monetizes through support and advanced enterprise features and counts users such as Alibaba, Baidu, Barclays Bank, CERN, Huawei, and Intel. The article highlights a customer outcome where Alluxio helped Baidu reduce ad-hoc query times on multiple petabytes of distributed data from 15 minutes to 30 seconds.

Total raised

$82M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Nov 2021