Tech Company Financing Transactions

Hortonworks Funding Round

BlackRock, Passport Capital and Benchmark Capital invested in a $100 million venture round for Hortonworks. This VC investment round was announced on 3/25/2014.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
3/25/2014
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$100,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors

BlackRock (Lead Investor)

Passport Capital (Lead Investor)

Benchmark Capital (Peter Fenton)

Dragoneer Investment Group

Index Ventures (Michael Volpi )

Tenaya Capital (Brian Melton)

Yahoo! (Jay Rossiter)

Proceeds Purpose
CEO Rob Bearden said part of the funds would be used for strategic and tuck-in acquisitions to expand the core of its Hadoop business, and to grow the company internationally.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Software
Mailing Address
5470 Great America Pkwy.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
Email Address
Not Recorded
Overview
Hortonworks drives actionable intelligence through open-source, Apache Hadoop data architectures that maximize the value of all data data-at-motion,data-at-rest, and Modern Data Applications.
Profile
Hortonworks LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Hortonworks Company Twitter Account
Company News
Hortonworks News
Facebook
Hortonworks on Facebook
YouTube
Hortonworks on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Rob Bearden
  Rob Bearden LinkedIn Profile  Rob Bearden Twitter Account  Rob Bearden News  Rob Bearden on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Scott Davidson
  Scott Davidson LinkedIn Profile  Scott Davidson Twitter Account  Scott Davidson News  Scott Davidson on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Scott Gnau
  Scott Gnau LinkedIn Profile  Scott Gnau Twitter Account  Scott Gnau News  Scott Gnau on Facebook
VP - Client Services
Amir Siddiqi
  Amir Siddiqi LinkedIn Profile  Amir Siddiqi Twitter Account  Amir Siddiqi News  Amir Siddiqi on Facebook
VP - General Counsel
David Howard
  David Howard LinkedIn Profile  David Howard Twitter Account  David Howard News  David Howard on Facebook
VP - Marketing
John Kreisa
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VP - Product Management
Jamie Engesser
  Jamie Engesser LinkedIn Profile  Jamie Engesser Twitter Account  Jamie Engesser News  Jamie Engesser on Facebook
VP - Product Management
Arun Murthy
  Arun Murthy LinkedIn Profile  Arun Murthy Twitter Account  Arun Murthy News  Arun Murthy on Facebook
VP - Sales
Alan Fudge
  Alan Fudge LinkedIn Profile  Alan Fudge Twitter Account  Alan Fudge News  Alan Fudge on Facebook


 

 

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