数据可视化服务BlueData完成2000万美元C轮融资，Intel领投
数据可视化服务 BlueData 完成 2000 万美元 C 轮融资，Intel 领投 本轮投资由 Intel 领投，Intel 高级副总裁 Doug Fisher 加入 BlueData 董事会。
同时 Intel 与 BlueData 宣布达成战略合作。Amplify Partners, Atlantic Bridge, Ignition Partners 和一家匿名的战略投资者也参与了投资。
BlueData 由两位VMware校友创办，帮助客户将大数据集群进行可视化处理，基于 Hadoop 或是 Spark 为用户提供服务。最近 BlueData 基于 OpenStack 开发了一个使用KVM虚拟机的Epic平台，将Hadoop中各种不同的系统存储的各种不同格式的数据进行统一处理。
本文编译自：TC
Big Data Vendor BlueData Announces $20M Round And Intel Partnership
BlueData, a company that helps customers generate virtualized big data clusters, announced a $20 million Series C round and a partnership with Intel today.
Intel Capital led the round. Also participating were Amplify Partners, Atlantic Bridge, Ignition Partners, as well as a strategic investor who chose to remain anonymous. As part of the deal, Doug Fisher, senior vice president of Intel and general manager of its Software and Services Group, will join BlueData’s board of directors.
BlueData’s founders have their roots in VMware. The goal with BlueData has been to make it as easy to spin up a Hadoop cluster as it is a virtual machine, company founder and CEO Kumar Sreekanti told TechCrunch.
“Enterprises require efficient and agile implementations for their on-premises big data solutions. Speed and innovation are essential in big data analytics, and the infrastructure can’t slow this down.” Sreekanti wrote in a blog post.
The product is essentially Hadoop- or Spark-as-a Service, but instead of living in the cloud, it resides on-premises on customer hardware. It combines the agility, speed and multi-tenancy of the cloud with the performance of running on bare metal in the data center.
What’s more, it works with any version of Hadoop or Apache Spark. The company is also planning on supporting Docker containers in an upcoming release.
The deal with Intel will involve several levels including engineers from both companies working together. BlueData will also have early access to new hardware releases. The idea is that BlueData will work to optimize its products on Intel architecture, particularly Intel Xeon chips.
The two companies will also work together on joint marketing and sales projects, and Intel will provide BlueData with the entree at the large enterprise customers it craves.
The partnership has the potential to be a huge boost to a small company like BlueData, which currently has 35 employees. The agreement is part of Intel’s ongoing effort to support big data companies, and comes on the heels of a similar deal with Cloudera, a BlueData partner, last year.
This isn’t the first time, Intel has shown interest in BlueData. It also contributed to the company’s Series A and B round.
Intel has been spreading the wealth this week. Just yesterday, it announced a big cloud push to go with its big data initiative. As part of that, it invested significant money and resources in Mirantis , an OpenStack company.
Since it launched in 2012 BlueData has raised a fairly modest $39 million across three rounds including today’s announcement — and it wasn’t looking for a big score this time.
“We weren’t looking for a huge amount of money. It’s too early for that,” Sreekanti said.
Sreekanti wouldn’t say exactly how many customers it has, but it lists several on the company website including Comcast, Orange and Symantec.
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Coursera获4950万美元C轮融资，重点拓展中印及拉美市场
在去年引入前耶鲁大学校长Rick Levin担任新 CEO 以后，在线教育巨头Coursera的策略就瞄准了扩张市场。当然，这些扩张离不开资金，现在增援的资金来了，C 轮的第一批 4950 万美元已经完成，预计到今年秋季还会有 1050 万美元到位，从而令本轮融资总额达到 6000 万美元。
成立于 2012年 的 Coursera 是全球最大的 MOOC 提供者之一，目前已经开设了 1100 多门课程，在全球拥有 1500 万的学习者，其中 75%分布在美国以外，其中中国、印度和拉美是其重点海外市场。
此轮融资由 New Enterprise Associates 领投，KPCN、International Finance Corporation、International Finance Corporation 以及 Times Internet Limited 等跟投，此轮融资过后，其融资总额将达月1.35 亿美元。此轮融资所得将用于拉美、中国与印度市场的扩张。
今年4月，从 Rick 在中国密集的行程中可以看出，Coursera 市场扩张的策略将是全球化、职业教育以及本土合作，现在这一策略已经初见成效，就在今年7月，Coursera 中国注册用户数已经突破 100 万，超越印度成为其美国以外的第二大市场。不过值得注意的是 Times Internet Limited 这家拥有印度时报等媒体资产的投资机构的参与，Coursera 也有可能借助它的力量进一步打开印度市场。此外，以巴西为首的拉美市场则是 Coursera 的第四大用户群。这些市场的拓张均离不开资金支持。
此外，Coursera 还将继续加强产品研发，改进学习评估技术以及与学员的互动。同时，进一步探索在线教育的货币化之路。而最近 Coursera 开设了多门付费的职业教育课程已经成为其主要收入来源。
数据分析工具提供商 Datameer 获得 E 轮 4000 万美元融资
本轮融资由 ST Telemedia 领投，Top Tier Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Redpoint, Next World Capital 和 Software AG 等机构跟投。
Datameer 成立于 2009 年 总部位于旧金山，是一家数据分析工具提供商。利用开源 Hadoop 分布式计算框架，帮助客户分析大型数据。本轮融资将用于全球性的拓展。同时，本轮融资后 ST Telemedia 合伙人 Nikhil Eapen 将加入Datameer 董事会。
Datameer Snags $40M Series E for International Expansion
Datameer, the San Francisco-based data analytics provider, has received a $40 million round of Series E funding to help it expand globally. The company was founded in 2009and uses the open source Hadoop distributed computing framework, meant to help businesses run analytics of large data sets, Datameer says. The Series E round was led by ST Telemedia, along with Top Tier Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Redpoint, Next World Capital and Software AG. Nikhil Eapen, chief strategy and investment officer of ST Telemedia, is joining Datameer’s board. The company says Eapen has extensive knowledge of communications, media, and technology in Asia.
原文链接：http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2015/08/18/datameer-snags-40m-series-e-for-international-expansion/
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