WibiData develops large-scale data applications that connect data science models on the backend to real-time front-end applications, enabling personalization, search relevancy, recommendations and anomaly detection. Its technology ingests and analyzes disparate interaction data such as email records and web histories to predict user behavior. The company’s applications are based on the open source Kiji and leverage Apache Hadoop on the backend. WibiData counts customers including Wikipedia, Rich Relevance, Opower, and Atlassian. Leadership includes co-founders Christophe Bisciglia (founder of Cloudera and former Google engineer) and Aaron Kimball. The company plans to use new funding to expand operations and hire across sales, marketing, product and engineering, aiming to roughly triple in size in the coming year. WibiData offers a data analysis platform that unifies complex user data (email records, web histories and other interactions) to predict behavior and deliver real-time personalization. The technology integrates with business intelligence and database offerings and leverages Apache Hadoop to manage and analyze large volumes of data. Its product is positioned for consumer web, e-commerce and gaming companies and is used by clients including Wikipedia, RichRelevance and Atlassian. The product is still in beta but the company reports it has doubled its customer base. Customers use the platform to create personalized products and services and to enable collaboration between engineering and data science teams. WibiData’s team includes former Google personalization engineers and the company was co-founded by Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball; the startup plans to expand engineering and operations with new funding.

Total raised

$20M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

May 2013