Alteryx, a startup with software that lets everyone, even non-technical people, analyze corporate data, is announcing a $60 million funding round this morning.
Growing into a bigger provider of such tooling is the whole point of today’s round. Insight Venture Partners is leading, while SAP Ventures and Toba Capital are also participating in this round.
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Other companies with simple data-blending and visualization capabilities include Alpine Data Labs, Chartio, ClearStory Data, and Datameer, among others. And for those who want to apply their data and statistics savvy — like data scientists — tools from startups like Domino and Sense can help. But Alteryx itself sees longtime statistics software company SAS and IBM’s SPSS software as its real competitors.
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Earlier this year Alteryx announced a partnership with Databricks, the startup that supports the Spark open-source in-memory engine for processing and analyzing data.
Looking ahead, Alteryx wants to create ways to run R programming-language functions on data already in databases and in Hadoop, a spokesman told VentureBeat in an email.
Alteryx started in 2010 and is based in Irvine, Calif. It employs 200 people, and the headcount should hit around 300 in a year. The startup claims to have accumulated 600 customers, including AAA, Chipotle, Experian, Kroger, Levi’s, and Verizon.
To date it has raised $78 million, including a $12 million round from last year.
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