Tag: venture capital
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Hadoop World: Battery Ventures EIR Todd P.
Todd Papaioannou has been in Big Data for a while. He built the original engineering team at Greenplum, worked at Teradata for 5 years and mostly recently, before joining Battery Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence, served as Yahoo’s Chief Cloud architect. I grabbed some time with Mr. P to learn what it means to…
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Hadoop World: Accel’s $100M Big Data fund
Yesterday Hadoop World kicked off here in New York city. As part of the opening keynotes, Ping Li of Accel Partners got on stage and announced that they are opening a $100 million dollar fund focusing on big data. If you’re not familiar with Accel, they are the venture capital firm that have invested in…