Trifacta

Trifacta
Private
Industry Data wrangling & exploratory analysis
Founded 2012
Headquarters San Francisco
Number of locations
 San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boston, Berlin and London
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
  • Adam Wilson (CEO), Joe Hellerstein (Co-founder & CSO), Jeffrey Heer (Co-founder & CXO) and Sean Kandel (Co-founder & CTO)
Products Trifacta Wrangler and Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise
Number of employees
 100
Website www.trifacta.com

Trifacta is a platform for preparing data for analysis. Trifacta is compliant in Hadoop using Spark or MapReduce.[1]

Headquartered in San Francisco, Trifacta has offices in Palo Alto, Boston, Berlin and London. The company was launched in October 2012.[2]

History

Trifacta was developed from a joint research project with Ph.D. and UC Berkeley Professor Joe Hellerstein , Ph.D. and University of Washington and formerly Stanford professor Jeffrey Heer, and Stanford Ph.D. Sean Kandel. It created a software application that combines visual interaction with intelligent inference for the process of data transformation and was launched in October 2012;[3] it received $4.3 million[4] in Series A funding from Accel Partners led by Ping Li,[5] head of the firm’s Big Data Fund. It received $12 million[6] in Series B funding from Greylock Partners and Accel Partners, with Joseph Ansanelli of Greylock joining the board. In its Series C funding, Trifacta received $25 million as Frank Artale from Ignition joined the board.[7] Most recently, Trifacta raised $35M from existing investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners and new investor Cathay Innovation, bringing the total amount raised to over $76 million.[8] The company also has investments from X/Seed Capital, Data Collective and angel investors Dave Goldberg, Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman.

Trifacta’s advisors [9] include Tim O'Reilly, New York Times visualization specialist (and former Heer student) Michael Bostock, Cloudera co-founder and chief scientist Jeff Hammerbacher, DJ Patil, and professors Sam Madden (MIT); Maneesh Agrawala (University of California Berkeley), Michael Bernstein (Stanford University) and Carlos Guestrin (University of Washington).

Software

Trifacta is a data preparation application that claims to enable users to transform complex data into structured formats for analysis. Their data wrangling experience is made up of six steps as outlined by Data Scientist Tye Rattenbury,[10] discovering, structuring, cleaning, enriching, validating and publishing. User can select elements to prompt transformation suggestions and use predictive transformation to preview a transform, intelligent execution for MapReduce, Spark and Javascript compilation, and collaborative data governance.[11]

Trifacta has two products, Trifacta Wrangler and Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise. Trifacta Wrangler is a connected desktop application that allows users to transform their data for a variety of downstream analytic and visualization uses such as Tableau.[12] and Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise is claimed to improve an enterprise's big data by enabling users to turn raw, complex data into more structured formats. [13]

References

  1. ↑ Black, Doug. "Trifactas Data Wrangling Decoder Ring Homogenizes Polygot Data Lakes". Enterprise Tech. Enterprise Tech. Retrieved 11 Feb 2016.
  2. ↑ Shieber, Jonathan. "Trifacta Raises 25 Million for its Data Transformation Software". Tech Crunch. Tech Crunch. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Big Data News: RainStorRaises $12M, Trifacta Launches | Data Center Knowledge". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  4. ↑ Finley, Klint. "Accel Partners Big Data Fund Invests $4.3 Million In Trifacta". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  5. ↑ "Trifacta Aims to Make Big Data Useful, Lands $4.3 Million From Accel Partners". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  6. ↑ "Greylock Leads $12 Million Round for Big-Data Startup Trifacta". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  7. ↑ "Bringing Trifacta to Scale to Transform Big Data | Greylock Partners". Greylock Partners. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  8. ↑ "Big Data Cleaner-upper Trifacta Scores $35 Million". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  9. ↑ "Trifacta". Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "Six Core Data Wrangling Activities". Datanami. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  11. ↑ Woodie, Alex. "More Companies Walking the Big Data Walk". Datanami. Datanami. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  12. ↑ "Trifacta Goes Back to the Future with Free 'Wrangler'". Datanami. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  13. ↑ Kepes, Ben. "IT for the Modern Age". Network World. Network World. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
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