Zoomdata Secures $4.1 Million in Series A

Zoomdata, Inc.,
a start-up that provides a next-generation data analytics and visualization
platform for real-time and historical big data, has secured a $4.1 million
Series A round of financing.

Menlo Park-based Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP) led the round, with
Razor’s Edge Ventures LLC,
CIT Group,
Inc., and B7, Inc.
participating.

Zoomdata intends to expand its engineering,
operations, and sales and marketing teams to service its growing client base
and open an office in Silicon Valley later this month.

Zoomdata is also announcing that it is one of the
first data analysis technology vendors specifically designed for Cloudera
Impala,
and that its application is now certified on Cloudera CDH. 

"Cloudera welcomes Zoomdata as a certified
data analysis and visualization partner. Specially designed to take advantage
of Impala’s architecture, Zoomdata promises to bring real-time and historical
visual analysis of big data at the speed of thought to non-technical business
users," said Tim Stevens, VP, business development, Cloudera.

"Data analytics is being disrupted in two ways
– by big data technologies like Impala, Hadoop, NoSQL, and Solr on the
back-end, and by mobile, touch, and gestural interfaces on the front end. Zoomdata powers real-time data
analytics and visualizations optimized for these next-generation back- and
front-ends," said Justin Langseth, founder and CEO, Zoomdata. "Our visualizations, based on
d3.js, are beautiful, customizable, and can be used stand-alone, or embedded in
other applications."

Bob Ghoorah, founder and MD, CNTP sees a
significant market opportunity as many software and SaaS companies are looking
to replace legacy embedded analytical packages and charting libraries with more
dynamic, real-time, customizable, and big data-optimized analytical frameworks. 

"Zoomdata’s approach to data
analytics and visualization is truly groundbreaking because it allows for
modern analytics to be tightly woven into the fabric of organizations and other
applications," said Ghoorah. "Zoomdata is well positioned to fulfill
this urgent requirement for success in 21st century business."

Zoomdata fuses together real-time and historical
data from a variety of sources, ranging from big data repositories, to search
engines, to legacy databases. Using its No-ETL approach of treating both
real-time and historical data as a stream, it is able to join data together
from disparate sources in a just-in-time manner to power interactive data
visuals on a range of mobile, touch, and legacy devices.

"We are bringing the power of big data analytics
to the 99% – the non-data geeks of the world, who are thirsting for a simple,
intuitive, and collaborate way to leverage the power of big data. Instead of
requiring top-down data modeling and ETL, Zoomdata builds a corporate ‘data
quilt’ from the grass roots up," said Langseth. "We also empower a
new class of ‘data artists’ to create fundamentally new ways to represent data,
that can then trigger viral loops of adoption of visual analytics across an
organization."

Zoomdata’s iPad app is downloadable from the Apple
iPad App store. The Zoomdata
server can be downloaded and includes 5 free
user accounts.

Demos of Zoomdata-powered
visualizations