Tech Company Financing Transactions

BlazingDB Funding Round

On 12/1/2017, BlazingDB landed $2.9 million in Seed funding from NVIDIA and Samsung NEXT.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/1/2017
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$2,900,000
Round
Seed
Investors

NVIDIA (Jeffrey Herbst)

Samsung NEXT (Leo Chang)

Proceeds Purpose
With this round of financing, we'll expand our team and accelerate enterprise deployments. This money will also enable BlazingDB to ramp up sales activity with enterprise users that are currently leveraging BlazingDB to operationalize tens to hundreds of terabytes of data inside their data lakes with SQL analytics.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
6211 Sanford Rd.
Houston, TX 77096
USA
Email Address
Overview
BlazingDB helps enterprise organizations operationalize their data lakes. We offer fast, simple, scalable GPU-powered SQL engine that runs directly off of files available inside enterprise data lakes. Query tens to hundreds of terabytes in seconds with our state of the art SQL analytics engine.
Profile
BlazingDB LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
BlazingDB Company Twitter Account
Company News
BlazingDB News
Facebook
BlazingDB on Facebook
YouTube
BlazingDB on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Rodrigo Aramburu
  Rodrigo Aramburu LinkedIn Profile  Rodrigo Aramburu Twitter Account  Rodrigo Aramburu News  Rodrigo Aramburu on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Felipe Aramburu
  Felipe Aramburu LinkedIn Profile  Felipe Aramburu Twitter Account  Felipe Aramburu News  Felipe Aramburu on Facebook
VP - Engineering
William Malpica
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