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Cloudera
Enterprise software company providing Apache Hadoop-based software and training
At a glance
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2017
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Cloudera.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A9 investors entered at this stage
Accel
SV Angel- CFCaterina Fake
- YHYoussri Helmy
- QLQi Lu
- MMMårten Mickos
- GYGideon Yu
Jeff Weiner- DGDiane Greene
Series B and later11 investors entered at this stage
Greylock Partners
Intel Capital
In-Q-Tel
Meritech Capital
T. Rowe Price- SMSharesPost Investment Mangement
DAG Ventures
MicroVentures- EQEquityZen
- DMDFO Management
- IPIgnition Partners
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Cloudera employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
ALAlliumEst. 2021
Ethan ChanUnited States
LALanceDBEst. 2022
Lei XuUnited States
VIVertical InsureEst. 2022
Brock NolandUnited States
Ryan BosshartUnited States
Marcel KornackerUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
61 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Cloudera was the backer or acquirer, 2013–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
14 deals across Cloudera's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Cloudera deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Cloudera's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Cloudera on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.

