USA – Voltron Data, a San Francisco, CA-based company that is accelerating standards in data analytics and a large corporate contributor to Apache Arrow, raised $110M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Walden Catalyst with participation from BlackRock, Anthos Capital, Battery, Coatue, GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nepenthe Capital, Redline and The Factory.The company intends to use the funds to expand Arrow-native computing and double its globally distributed and diverse team, primarily in engineering and go-to-market.Led by CEO Josh Patterson, CTO Wes McKinney, COO Rodrigo Aramburú, and CBO Darren Haas, Voltron Data builds Arrow-native software that improves efficiency, performance and interoperability at all scales of computing. The company is one of the most significant contributors to Apache Arrow. Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory computing. Arrow has been adopted globally by companies including AWS, Databricks, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and Snowflake to accelerate data access and analytical processing. The company currently has 100 employees.20/02/2022
