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Hortonworks
Other B2B Software · Santa Clara, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2014
Hortonworks mafia
Startups founded by Hortonworks alumni
Former Hortonworks employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Suresh SrinivasUnited States
David Nelson-GalUnited States
Gaurav NagarUnited States
Arun C MurthyUnited States
Janos MatyasHungary
Don Bosco DuraiUnited States
Alberto RomeroUnited Kingdom
Jitendra PandeyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Hortonworks has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Hortonworks's talent
Dealroom maps Hortonworks's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$601k patent portfolio · 7 active families
Where Hortonworks concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Hortonworks and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Hortonworks's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Hortonworks appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2018. 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.
4 deals across Hortonworks's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Hortonworks 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Hortonworks'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
What the market is saying about Hortonworks
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Hortonworks on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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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