Hadapt develops a Big Data analytics platform that natively integrates SQL with Apache Hadoop, enabling analysis of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data in a single system. The platform removes the need for connectors, complex pipelines, or rigid schemas to query diverse data sets. Its core technology began as research in the Yale Computer Science department under co-founders Dr. Daniel Abadi and Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski. Justin Borgman, the third co-founder and CEO, identified the technology's commercial potential while at the Yale School of Management and joined the venture. Founders left their graduate programs (and Abadi took a teaching leave) to build the company and commercialize the research. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Hadapt builds an adaptive analytical platform designed to perform complex analytics on both structured and unstructured data in a single, cloud-optimized system. The product fully integrates the open-source parallel data processing framework Apache Hadoop and expands it with a more complete SQL interface. Hadapt has a patent-pending Adaptive Query Execution capability and a hybrid storage engine to handle mixed data types. Adaptive Query Execution dynamically load-balances queries in virtualized environments and allows analytical workloads to be split between relational database engines and Hadoop to improve performance. The company raised $9.5 million in venture capital and plans to relocate from New Haven to the Boston area. Hadapt commercializes inventions around analytical database research in virtualized environments, adapting and expanding the open source Hadoop framework. The company integrates Hadoop with a more complete SQL interface, a patent-pending Adaptive Query Execution™ capability, and a hybrid storage engine to handle structured and unstructured data in a single platform. Adaptive Query Execution™ is designed to dynamically load balance queries in virtualized environments and to allow analytical workloads to be automatically split between relational database engines and Hadoop. Hadapt says it will use the initial funding to complete software development for a general release later this year. The company was founded by Justin Borgman (CEO), Daniel Abadi, PhD (Chief Scientist) and Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski (Chief Software Architect). Hadapt is based in New Haven, CT.

Total raised

$16M

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3

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Nov 2012