GoodData

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GoodData
Company typePrivate startup
Industry Computer software
Founded2007
FounderRoman Stanek
Headquarters,
U.S.
Number of employees
280 (March 2024)
Website www.gooddata.com

GoodData is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, in the U.S., with additional offices in Europe and Asia.

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History

GoodData was founded in 2007 by Czech entrepreneur Roman Stanek. [1] [2] Stanek had previously founded and served as CEO at NetBeans, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, as well as Systinet Corporation, [3] which was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2006. [4]

The company was founded in April 2007 as "Good Data Corporation" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [5] It received investment in July 2008 from Tim O'Reilly, Esther Dyson, and private equity firm Windcrest Partners for a total sum of $2 million. [6]

In 2009, the company received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, and Windcrest Partners across two rounds totaling $5 million. Funding continued with in 2010, 2011, 2012, and in late 2012, bringing its capital raised to $53.5 million. [7] The company announced $22 million in funding led by TOTVS Ventures in 2013. [8]

In 2014, GoodData said it provided software to 30,000 companies. [9]

In 2019, GoodData announced a partnership with Amazon and the integration with Amazon Redshift data warehouse solution. [10]

On May 20, 2020, GoodData and Visa Inc. announced an investment and strategic partnership. [11] [12]

In June 2021, GoodData launched a new integration in partnership with Snowflake Inc.. [13]

On July 15, 2021, GoodData announced a partnership with unified analytics platform provider Vertica. [14]

On July 27, 2021, GoodData said it received a $45 million credit facility from J.P. Morgan & Co. to "grow its global sales and engineering teams while continuing to invest in building solutions for modern, enterprise-grade analytics." [15]

References

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  2. Nisen, Max. "Being The Founder Of A Startup Is 'One Big Giant Mood Swing'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  3. Mount, Ian (2013-06-19). "Self-Finance or Raise Money? A Quandary for Start-Ups". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  4. Bort, Julie. "The 50 Most Powerful People In Enterprise Tech". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  5. "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities" (PDF). US SEC. June 13, 2008. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  6. Daniel Wolfman (December 6, 2012). "A Company That Starts in Crisis Gets a Head Start". Inc. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  7. "Big-Data Start-Up GoodData Lands $25 Million Series C Led by Tenaya Capital". All Things D. 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
  8. "GoodData Raises $22M From Latin America's Largest Enterprise Software Company". TechCrunch. 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
  9. "How GoodData is Winning by Expanding BI Use Cases". Blue Hill Research. 2014-01-28. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
  10. Anadiotis, George (2019-11-08). "GoodData partners with Amazon on Redshift: When data goes cloud, cloud data goes into analytics". ZDNet. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  11. GoodData (2020-05-20). "GoodData Announces Strategic Partnership and Investment from Visa". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  12. Anadiotis, George (2020-05-20). "GoodData and Visa: A common data-driven future?". ZDNet. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  13. https://www.gooddata.com/press-releases/gooddata-launches-new-integration-in-partnership-with-snowflake/
  14. GoodData (2021-07-15). "GoodData and Vertica Partner to Accelerate Cloud-Native Self-Service Analytics Adoption in the Enterprise". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  15. GoodData (2021-07-27). "GoodData Announces $45 Million Credit Facility from J.P. Morgan to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Cloud-Native Business Analytics". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2022-01-03.