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Hortonworks
Development and support of Apache Hadoop
At a glance
- Status
- Listed
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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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.
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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