Imply Data

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Imply
Industry Computer software
Founded2015 (2015)
Founders
  • Fangjin Yang
  • Gian Merlino
  • Vadim Ogievetsky
Headquarters,
Website www.imply.io

Imply Data, Inc. is an American software company. It develops and provides commercial support for the open-source Apache Druid, a real-time database designed to power analytics applications.[ citation needed ]

History

Druid was open-sourced in October 2012 under the GPL license. [1] [2] Over time, notable organizations including Netflix [3] [4] and Yahoo [5] adopted the project into their technology stacks. The increased adoption led the team to change the license of the project to Apache. [6]

In October 2015 the company raised $2 million from Khosla Ventures. [7] and launched its first product, combining Apache Druid and additional open-source components, including a user interface and the PlyQL SQL-like query language, plus enterprise support. [8]

In December 2019 it raised an additional $30 million, suggesting a valuation of $350 million. [9] The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Ventures. [10]

A Series C round of $70 million, valuing the company at $700 million, was announced in June, 2021, led by Bessemer Venture Partners. [11]

Also in November, 2021, Imply announced Project Shapeshift, designed to develop a hardware-abstracting, auto-scaling control plane and SaaS service for Apache Druid; extend the Druid SQL API from querying to ingestion, processing and transformation; and build a serverless and elastic consumption platform. [12]


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References

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