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Waterline Data

615 National Avenue, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States

Overview

Waterline Data provides data cataloging solutions and applications that automate discovery, classification and governance of data at petabyte scale without compromising security. The company’s products are used by large financial, food & beverage, tech, healthcare, pharmaceutical and manufacturing firms, including Nordea, GSK and Fannie Mae. Waterline says it will use new funding to accelerate product innovation, pursue global expansion and expand go-to-market efforts. The company is led by CEO Kailash Ambwani with Ed Peek serving as SVP of Worldwide Sales. Waterline was founded in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, CA. To date the company has raised $37.5M in total capital. Waterline Data provides a data marketplace platform and a self-service data catalog that helps business analysts and data scientists find, understand, and provision data assets. Its solution aims to accelerate data preparation and analytics while enabling agile data governance through automated semantic discovery and data lineage. Founded in 2013 by CEO Alex Gorelik and based in Mountain View, CA, the company has backing from Menlo Ventures and Jackson Square Ventures. Waterline will use the new funding to expand sales and marketing operations and continue R&D investment. The company has raised $23m in total to date. Waterline Data Science develops Waterline Data Inventory to enable data self-service on Hadoop. The product helps users find, understand, and help govern Hadoop data. The company said it will use the $7M Series A proceeds to expand operations. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and the company is also backed by Sigma West. Founded in December 2013 and led by founder and CEO Alex Gorelik, Waterline is based in Mountain View, Calif. It was one of twelve finalists in the Startup Showcase at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City.

Total raised
$38M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
Oct 2018

Industries

  • Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Big Data
  • Cloud Management
  • Consulting
  • Data Integration
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet of Things
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    Oct 2018

    $15M

  2. Series B

    Feb 2016

    $16M

  3. Series A

    Oct 2014

    $7M

Team

  • Toshiaki Tokunaga

    Chief Executive Officer

  • Kailash Ambwani

    CEO

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  • Chris Leslie

    General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer

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  • Masateru Hayashihara

    Chief Strategy Officer

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