Cloudera - About the company
Cloudera is an acquired company based in Palo Alto (United States), founded in 2008 by Jeff Hammerbacher, Amr Awadallah, Mike Olson, Christophe Bisciglia and Laura Cain. It operates as a Provider of hybrid data platform, data management, and AI solutions. Cloudera has raised $1.04B in funding from Intel, with last known valuation of $3.7B. The company has 16 active competitors, including 3 funded and 4 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Snowflake, Yellowbrick Data and Vertica.
Company Details
Provider of hybrid data platform, data management, and AI solutions. The company delivers cloud-native agility for data and AI applications. It offers data flow streaming, data engineering, data warehousing, and operational database services. The company enables users to ingest, prepare, analyze, predict, and publish data. It also provides data catalog, data lineage, observability, and data visualization tools.
- Website
- www.cloudera.com/
- Email ID
- *****@cloudera.com
- Phone Number
- +1 **********
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2008
Location
Palo Alto, United States
Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$1.04B in 8 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Last Known Valuation
$3.7B as on Jun 01, 2021
Ranked
2nd among 16 active competitors
Annual Revenue
$869M as on Jan 31, 2021
Employee Count
3,367 as on Jan 31, 2026
Exit Details
Acquired by KKR (Jun 01, 2021)
Legal entities associated with Cloudera
Cloudera is associated with 5 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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Jan 21, 2015 | - | - | - | |
Jun 26, 2008 | $869M (as on Jan 31, 2021) | - | - | |
Sep 12, 2012 | $51.5M (as on Mar 31, 2025) | 675 (as on Jan 31, 2025) | ||
Apr 14, 2011 | - | 725 (as on Dec 31, 2018) | - | |
Jun 26, 2008 | - | 985 (as on Dec 31, 2018) | - |
Cloudera's acquisition details
Cloudera got acquired by KKR and Clayton Dubilier & Rice on Jun 01, 2021 at an acquisition amount of $5.3B. It was facilitated by Morgan Stanley, GCA, Latham & Watkins and 8 more.
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Cloudera's funding and investors
Cloudera has raised a total funding of $1.04B over 8 rounds. Its first funding round was on Mar 15, 2009. Its latest funding round was a Series F round on 2015 for an undisclosed amount. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Cloudera has 39 institutional investors and 1 angel investor.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Cloudera:
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Date of funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post money valuation | Revenue multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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2015 | Undisclosed | Series F | - | - | - | |
Mar 31, 2014 | $740M | Series F | - | - | - | |
Mar 18, 2014 | $160M | Series F | - | - | - |
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Cloudera's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Cloudera are Jeff Hammerbacher, Amr Awadallah, Mike Olson, Christophe Bisciglia and Laura Cain. Charles Sansbury is the CEO of Cloudera.
Here are the details of Cloudera's key team members:
- Jeff Hammerbacher: Former Co-Founder of Cloudera and founder of 2 other companies, Related Sciences and . They are also an angel investor in 14 startups.
- Amr Awadallah: Former Co-Founder of Cloudera and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 4 startups.
- Mike Olson: Former Co-Founder of Cloudera and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 3 startups.
- Christophe Bisciglia: Former Co-Founder of Cloudera and founder of 1 other company.
- Laura Cain: Former ecutive Assistant to Chief Architect, SVP, VP and Founders of Hortonworks of Cloudera.
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Cloudera's employee count trend
Cloudera has 3,367 employees as of Jan 26. Here is Cloudera's employee count trend over the years:
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Cloudera's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Cloudera include Snowflake, Yellowbrick Data and Vertica. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Cloudera, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Overall Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | ![]() Snowflake 2012, Bozeman (United States), Public | Provider of a cloud platform for data storage and analysis | $1.56B | 82/100 | |
2nd | ![]() Cloudera 2008, Palo Alto (United States), Acquired | Provider of hybrid data platform, data management, and AI solutions | $1.04B | 81/100 | |
3rd | ![]() Yellowbrick Data 2014, Palo Alto (United States), Series C | Provider of data warehousing and analytics platform deployable across multiple environments | $292M | 63/100 | |
4th | ![]() Vertica 2005, Billerica (United States), Acquired | Global leader in Information Management solutions, empowering businesses with AI | $16.5M | 53/100 | |
5th | Provider of ETL platform facilitating data movement from sources to destinations | $6.94M | 43/100 | ||
6th | ![]() Tabular 2021, San Jose (United States), Acquired | Provider of a unified platform for data analytics and artificial intelligence | $37.2M | 42/100 | |
7th | ![]() BoilingData 2022, Helsinki (Finland), Unfunded | In memory analytical data processing platform | - | - | 30/100 |
8th | ![]() Preemo 2020, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Provider of a platform offering big data warehousing solutions | $5.4M | 26/100 | |
9th | ![]() Sundeck 2022, Santa Clara (United States), Unfunded | Cloud based data warehouse automation platform | - | - | 25/100 |
10th | ![]() Agile Data Engine 2016, Tampere (Finland), Unfunded | Developer of a platform for cloud data warehouse automation and management | - | - | 25/100 |
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Cloudera's Investments and acquisitions
Cloudera has not made any investments yet. Cloudera has made 13 acquisitions.Here is the list of latest three $acquisitions:
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Date of Investment/Acquisition | Type | Company Name | Founded Year | Location |
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Aug 04, 2025 | Acquisition | 2018 | Prague (Czech Republic) | |
Nov 15, 2024 | Acquisition | 2015 | Rosh Haayin (Israel) | |
Jun 03, 2024 | Acquisition | 2018 | Palo Alto (United States) |
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Reports related to Cloudera
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News related to Cloudera
Media has covered Cloudera for a total of 38 events in the last 1 year, 21 of them have been about company updates and 11 about partnerships.
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Cloudera Expands to AWS Saudi Arabia Region, Supporting Saudi Vision 2030AiThority•Nov 20, 2025•Cloudera
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Cloudera EVOLVE25: Unified AI Data Access Takes Center Stage in Dubaitechnologies.org•Nov 20, 2025•Cloudera
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Cloudera and Intel collaborate to advance scalable enterprise AI adoption across industriesExpress Computer•Nov 12, 2025•Intel, Cloudera, Dell
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Hybrid AI Emerges as New Standard in Financial Services, 91% See 'High Value Strategy'GlobeNewswire•Nov 11, 2025•Finextra, Cloudera
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Cloudera Focuses on Private AI as Enterprises Reconsider Cloud StrategiesSiliconAngle•Oct 03, 2025•Cloudera
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Cloudera Accelerates AI and Analytics Projects with a Unified Platform for Secure, Governed, and Performant DataExpress Computer•Oct 01, 2025•Cloudera
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