Cloudera
Cloudera is a Lakehouse Platforms company founded in 2008 and based in Santa Clara, United States.
Cloudera was founded in 2008 in Burlingame, California, by Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, Jeff Hammerbacher and Mike Olson, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Built on an open-source foundation, its platform offers containerized data services, an open lakehouse on Apache Iceberg with the Cloudera Iceberg REST Catalog and Lakehouse Optimizer, data lineage, visualization and private generative AI, deployable across public clouds, on-premises data centers, sovereign clouds and the edge. Cloudera says it manages more than 25 exabytes of data. It sells the platform to enterprises and government agencies and reports annual recurring revenue. Cloudera went public in April 2017, merged with Hortonworks in January 2019 and was taken private by affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in an all-cash deal worth about $5.3 billion that closed on Oct. 8, 2021. It later bought Verta, Octopai and Taikun. For fiscal 2026 it reported more than 50% year-over-year growth in fourth-quarter new and expansion business and over 570 hires across 30 countries.
Cloudera serves large companies and public agencies, including BT Group, Continental and the Centers for Disease Control, that keep data across their own data centers and several clouds. Its lakehouse stores tables in Apache Iceberg, and it holds FedRAMP Moderate authorization for U.S. federal work. On Oct. 27, 2026 it added Neo4j and Cartesia to an AI ecosystem that already included VAST Data and Mistral AI, so customers can run AI where their data already sits.
At a glance
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Headquarters
Santa Clara
United StatesFounded
2008
Status
Private
Subsector
Data Infrastructure, ranked
Top 25 Data Infrastructure companies →Funding history
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No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.
