{"id":31547,"date":"2017-09-11T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2017\/sep\/11\/mapr-secures-56-million-funding-it-celebrates-outstanding-financial-quarter\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T09:32:12","slug":"mapr-secures-56-million-in-funding-as-it-celebrates-outstanding-financial-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/mapr-secures-56-million-in-funding-as-it-celebrates-outstanding-financial-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"MapR secures $56 million in funding as it celebrates \u2018outstanding\u2019 financial quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/concept-money-and-small-tree-in-jar-and-sunshine-picture-id615104368.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>MapR Technologies, a data management platform provider, has announced an equity round of $56 million (&pound;42.5m) from existing investors.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would use the money to &ldquo;continue product innovation of the industry&rsquo;s first modern enterprise platform for all data, accelerate country and regional growth to fulfil the demand for the MapR Converged Data Platform throughout APAC and Europe, and bolster MapR&rsquo;s thriving global partner community.&rdquo; According to CrunchBase, the latest funding round puts the company at $250m of venture capital raised after six rounds.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amidst what MapR called an &lsquo;outstanding&rsquo; financial quarter, with more than 100% year over year growth in new subscription billings and 70% annual billings growth year over year.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights for the company in the most recent quarter included a partnership with big data integration vendor Talend to help organisations meet GDPR requirements, as well as a collaboration with NTT DATA Business Solutions Asia Pacific around SAP deployments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our customers and partners continue to be at the forefront of this 30 year re-platforming the industry is going through today,&rdquo; said Matt Mills, MapR CEO in a statement. &ldquo;We are working closely with them to ensure their success and helping them to execute on their digital transformation and data strategies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our performance in recent quarters and the additional equity from our existing investors are proof points that we are successfully executing on our strategy as we continue to be heads-down and focused,&rdquo; Mills added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/06\/08\/mapr_ipo\/\">to <em>The Register<\/em><\/a> in June, Mills said the company&rsquo;s trajectory was towards IPO but without specific timeframes at that moment. An interesting example of a competitor in this space is Cloudera &ndash; MapR was called out as a competitor of Cloudera&rsquo;s in the open source space in the former&rsquo;s IPO filing &ndash; who went public in April this year. As this publication reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2017\/sep\/08\/cloudera-and-okta-bang-drum-cloud-ipos-positive-q2-financial-results\/\">last week<\/a>, Cloudera&rsquo;s latest financials beat expectations, with total revenues hitting $89.8m for the most recent quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MapR Technologies, a data management platform provider, has announced an equity round of $56 million (&pound;42.5m) from existing investors.<br \/>\nThe company said it would use the money to &ldquo;continue product innovation of the industry&rsquo;s first mod&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31548,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547\/revisions\/31548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}