Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Yellowbrick Data Finds $44M For Data Warehouse Appliance

Palo Alto-based Yellowbrick Data, a developer of a data warehouse appliance, said on Tuesday that it raised $44M in a Series A funding, and launched the company out of stealth mode. The funding came from DFJ, GV, Menlo Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Third Point Ventures. Yellowbrick said its data warehouse appliance can run SQL queries as much as 140x times faster than existing solutions. The company's customers include Overstock.com, Symphony RetailAI and TEOCO Corporation. Yellowbrick was founded by Neil Carson (CEO), Jim Dawson (CRO) and Mark Brinicombe (principal architect), in 2014.