BlueData offers Hadoop- and Spark-as-a-Service software that virtualizes big-data clusters so customers can spawn Hadoop or Spark clusters as easily as virtual machines on on-premises hardware. The product combines cloud-like agility, speed and multi-tenancy with the performance of running on bare metal in the data center. It works with any version of Hadoop or Apache Spark and the company plans to add support for Docker containers in an upcoming release. BlueData was founded by engineers with roots at VMware and is led by CEO Kumar Sreekanti. The company lists customers including Comcast, Orange and Symantec, and currently has about 35 employees. Since launching in 2012 it has raised a total of $39 million across three rounds, including the new Series C. BlueData was founded in 2012 and is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was started by Kumar Sreekanti and Tom Phelan, both formerly at VMware. BlueData focuses on Big Data private-cloud software and is privately testing its first product; no product details have been released. The company recently closed a $15M Series B financing. Existing investors and industry executives participated in the round. Prior to this, BlueData raised a $4M seed round in February 2013. BlueData Software is a cloud startup based in Santa Clara, California. The company was founded in 2012. It is led by CEO Kumar Sreekanti, a former VMware vice president of R&D for the Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit. A FinSMEs article and an SEC filing report that the company raised $4M in seed funding. The SEC filing did not list any backers, and the articles do not provide details about the company's product, customers, revenue, or specific future plans. No additional operating metrics or prior financings were disclosed in the coverage.

Total raised

$39M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Aug 2015