Trifacta, co-founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, has attracted nearly a dozen investors for a round that brought its total funding to $224m.
Trifacta, a US-based data wrangling software producer based on research at Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, secured $100m in funding from investors including telecoms firms Telstra and NTT Docomo yesterday.
Carmaker BMW, internet technology provider Google, IT consultancy Infosys and financial services firm ABN Amro also took part in the round, the latter through its Digital Impact Fund.
Energy Impact Partners, Accel, Cathay Innovation, Greylock Partners and Ignition Partners filled out the round.
Telstra, NTT Docomo and BMW participated through their respective corporate venturing subsidiaries: Telstra Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures and BMW i Ventures. The round valued the company at less than $1bn, a source familiar with the deal told Fortune.
Trifacta has created a data wrangling platform that uses machine learning to facilitate the rapid organising and preparing of complex datasets for analysis or visualisation. It has attracted more than 10,000 enterprise clients…
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