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| Company type | Private startup |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Roman Stanek |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of employees | 280 (March 2024) |
| Website | www |
GoodData is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, in the U.S., with additional offices in Europe and Asia.
GoodData was founded in 2007 by Czech entrepreneur Roman Stanek. Stanek had previously founded and served as CEO at NetBeans, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, as well as Systinet Corporation, [1] which was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2006. [2]
The company was founded in April 2007 as "Good Data Corporation" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [3] 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. [4]
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. [5] The company announced $22 million in funding led by TOTVS Ventures in 2013. [6]
In 2014, GoodData said it provided software to 30,000 companies. [7]
In 2019, GoodData announced a partnership with Amazon and the integration with Amazon Redshift data warehouse solution. [8]
On May 20, 2020, GoodData and Visa Inc. announced an investment and strategic partnership. [9] [10]
In June 2021, GoodData launched a new integration in partnership with Snowflake Inc.. [11]
On July 15, 2021, GoodData announced a partnership with unified analytics platform provider Vertica. [12]
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." [13]
In April 2023, GoodData was among 20 vendors recognized in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for analytics and BI tools. [14]
GoodData is a business intelligence and analytics company that is known primarily for its embedded analytics and internal analytics solutions. In 2021, it expanded its cache of capabilities to include GoodData.CN (GoodData Cloud Native) and composable data and analytics. [15] [16]
GoodData launched a VS Code plugin. It promises to bring the power of software engineering workflow to the realm of analytics, delivering versioning, collaboration, and automation benefits to analytics and DevOps engineers. [17] A YouTube series for GoodData for VS Code was launched to teach developers about the plugin and the capabilities made available by the plugin. [18]
On October 17, 2023, GoodData introduced FlexQuery Analytics Lake, an end-to-end data platform that manages metadata, materialized metrics, federated datasets, result caches, predictive models, analytics code, and leverages storage, compute, semantics, and reporting within an open, API-first analytics-as-code architecture with built-in AI acceleration. The platform provides a seamless collaboration point for every data persona, combining the power of code-based automation with no-code/low-code environments. The first phase of this vision, FlexCache, was introduced in order to reduce query times and save costs by minimizing unpredictable and expensive cloud data warehouse query processing. [19]
A few months later, on March 25, 2024, GoodData announced a major update to FlexQuery. FlexQuery is a composable data service layer built on Apache Arrow and Iceberg. With FlexQuery, GoodData says users can save costs through efficient caching, transform and federate data with agility, and build using the best open-source tools. [20]
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