Tamr builds machine-learning-driven data products that deliver clean, curated, and continuously updated data to data consumers through customers' cloud data warehouses. Its platform includes enrichment capabilities to add third-party data to improve data quality, completeness, and value. Tamr positions its data products to support analytics and AI by providing accessible, trustworthy, high-quality data. The company says customers using Tamr gain cleaner, more complete data for use in other applications, including Alteryx. Tamr announced an investment from Alteryx via Alteryx Ventures intended to further enable development of its data products. Tamr builds an enterprise data-unification platform called Unify that applies machine learning supplemented by customers' knowledge to unify and prepare data across myriad silos. The company's patented software and agile data mastering and classification solutions target large-scale data curation challenges that traditional ETL and MDM products struggle with. Tamr says its approach is increasingly foundational to large enterprises' data management and digital-transformation efforts and cites customers such as GE, Toyota, Thomson Reuters, and GSK. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Andy Palmer with co-founding involvement from Turing Award winner Mike Stonebraker. Recent financing activity is enabling continued rapid growth to meet increased enterprise demand for data unification. Tamr develops a patented enterprise data unification software platform that applies machine learning supplemented by human expertise to unify and prepare data across silos. The platform was commercialized from research on the Data Tamer system by Turing Award winner Dr. Michael Stonebraker and co-inventors. Tamr positions its offerings as a foundational component of DataOps to help large enterprises accelerate digital transformation. The company cites a record start to 2018 and says demand from Global 2000 customers is fueling rapid growth. Customers mentioned include GE, Toyota, Thomson Reuters, and GSK. The new financing is intended to enable continued rapid growth and expand adoption of Tamr's data unification solutions. Tamr provides a data unification software platform that combines machine learning with human expertise to unify and prepare data across myriad silos and deliver business-changing insights. Co‑founded by Andy Palmer and Mike Stonebraker and based in Boston, MA, the company has worked with large enterprises to unify disparate enterprise data. Tamr began working with GE in 2014 to unify data from more than 270 separate ERP systems and now processes 20 million transactions representing $60B in direct spend. Its solution delivers unified, clean supplier data to users on the front lines at GE and is used across multiple GE business units for tasks including B2B customer record management. Customers named in the article include GE, Toyota, Thomson Reuters, GSK, HP, Philips and Amgen. The company intends to use the new funds to accelerate product development and go-to-market initiatives. Tamr builds software that discovers, catalogs and unifies disparate databases, spreadsheets and logs across enterprises to give visibility into what data a company holds. Its core product creates a central catalogue and links data for use cases like supplier insight and a 360-degree view of customers. CEO Andy Palmer has compared Tamr’s potential enterprise impact to what Google did for the web. Engineers currently work closely with customers, and the company plans to use new funding to hire additional engineers, sales and marketing staff and to train third-party partners. Customers include Toyota, GE, Novartis and investor Thomson Reuters. Tamr has about 55 employees across Cambridge and San Francisco and expects to grow to roughly 100 employees within 18 months; total funding to date is $42.4M following the latest round.

Total raised

$69M

Funding rounds

6

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Sep 2018