Hadoop-based startup Cloudera nabs a massive $65M funding round

Cloudera has pulled in $65 million in its fifth round of venture capital funding, bringing the company's total funds to $140 million.

Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft

While consumer-focused companies like Facebook and Zynga exploded, business software startups have been quietly scoring household-name customers with multi-million dollar budgets, kicking legacy players off their pedestal, and filing for higher-than-expected IPOs.

‘Big data’ startup Trifacta comes out of stealth with $4.3M in Accel funding

Trifacta is coming out of stealth mode today as the latest "big data" startup. Accordingly, it has raised $4.3 million from Accel Partners' Big Data Fund. Trifacta is creating productivity platforms that make data analysts more productive. And the company's visualization software makes normal folks into database analysts.

How ready are you for big data?

Big data has been the subject of a lot of hype lately. But that doesn’t mean it’s a fad; this movement is certainly here to stay. It is essentially the business of how we deal with the volume, variety, and …

Code 42 Software raises $52.5M to raise profile for online backup

Code 42 Software has been growing quietly in the background, providing online backup for consumers and enterprises. But after a decade of growth, it’s ready to raise its sales and marketing profile. So the company is announcing today it has …

Accel Partners announces $100M Big Data Fund — to invest in Hadoop, NoSQL and other cool stuff

Venture firm Accel Partners has carved out a $100 million “big data” fund to invest in companies focused on building new IT infrastructure or on applications than run on that new infrastructure.

Accel, based in Palo Alto, Calif., at the …

Salesforce.com’s Chuck Ganapathi joins Accel Partners — to build the next Salesforce.com

Chuck Ganapathi, the man who created Salesforce.com‘s Chatter, the company’s largest product development effort ever, has left to join Accel Partners as Entrepreneur in Residence.

Ganapathi said in an interview with VentureBeat Monday evening that he’ll seek to build a …