M&A Deal Summary

Cloudera Acquires Hortonworks

On October 3, 2018, Cloudera acquired software company Hortonworks

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cloudera’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Cloudera’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Cloudera’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2018-10-03
Target Hortonworks
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Cloudera
Deal Type Merger
Advisor(s) Qatalyst Partners (Financial)
Latham & Watkins (Legal)

Target

Hortonworks

Santa Clara, California, United States
Hortonworks is a provider of enterprise-grade, global data management platforms, services, and solutions that deliver actionable intelligence from any type of data for over half of the Fortune 100. Hortonworks is committed to driving innovation in open source communities, providing unique value to enterprise customers. Along with its partners, Hortonworks provides technology, expertise, and support so that enterprise customers can adopt a modern data architecture. Hortonworks is based in Santa Clara, California.

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Buyer

Cloudera

Santa Clara, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 2008
Sector Software
Employees2,728
Revenue 869M USD (2021)
DESCRIPTION
Cloudera's corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Cloudera's corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Cloudera is an enterprise software company that offers a platform for data management, machine learning, and advanced analytics. Cloudera's platform enables organizations to use vast amounts of data from a variety of sources, including the Internet of Things (IoT), to better serve and market to their customers, design connected products and services and reduce risk through greater insight from data. Cloudera was formed in 2008 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 11
Sector (Software) 1 of 3
Type (Merger) 1 of 1
State (California) 2 of 4
Country (United States) 6 of 11
Year (2018) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-07 Fast Forward Labs

New York, New York, United States

Fast Forward Labs, Inc. is a machine learning and applied artificial intelligence research and development company. Fast Forward Labs, Inc. was established in 2014 and is based in New York City.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-10-12 Eventador Labs

Austin, Texas, United States

Eventador Labs, Inc. is a provider of cloud-native services for enterprise-grade stream processing. Eventador Labs is based in Austin, Texas.

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