新聞Platfora hires Jason Zintak as founder.Big data startup Platfora appoints Jason Zintak as CEO; founder Ben Werther steps down.
新聞Workday, Inc. acquired Platfora for $10B on Jan 1st '16.Notable exits include e-commerce platform Wish, which went public in 2020 and is now valued at more than $10 billion, and big data analytics company Platfora, which was acquired by Workday in 2016.
新聞Platfora receives financing of $38M.(WSJ article “How Consumers Can Use Big Data: http://on.wsj.com/1hkG8fT) The venture community has fanned flames of late, jumping in feet first with follow-on investments in the companies that offer Hadoop software: a $900 Million round by Cloudera (including a major commitment from Intel Ventures,) a $100 million round by Hortonworks and a ‘mere’ $38 million round by Platfora.
