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Hortonworks
Development and support of Apache Hadoop
At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Hortonworks.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Benchmark- TOTokpay
Series B and later7 investors entered at this stage
Dragoneer Investment Group- PCPassport Capital
Index Ventures
Tenaya Capital
BlackRock- TCTexas Atlantic Capital
Accel
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Hortonworks employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Suresh SrinivasUnited States
David Nelson-GalUnited States
ACAccelDataEst. 2018
Gaurav NagarUnited States
IAIsotopes AIEst. 2025
Arun C MurthyUnited States
Janos MatyasHungaryGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
7 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 Hortonworks was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Hortonworks 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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