Investors
Cloudera is backed by smart, committed investors who share our passion for transforming the enterprise data management space.
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Accel Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and India. Accel typically makes multi-stage investments in Internet technology companies.
Founded in 1983, Accel has a long history of excellence and innovation in the venture capital business and is dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class companies. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies. As well as having offices in California, London and Bangalore, India, the firm also has a presence in China via the IDG-Accel partnership.
With more than $6 billion under management, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies. Accel has a track record of success investing in computer and storage infrastructure companies like Cloudera, including Dropbox, Rhapsody Networks, Riverbed Technology, SpringSource and Veritas.
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Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm based San Mateo, California that works actively with entrepreneurs to build market-leading companies. The firm is currently focused on the enterprise software and consumer Internet sectors.
Greylock started in 1965 and has funded and helped build several hundred successful companies, including Ascend Communications, CheckFree, CipherTrust, Constant Contact, Continental Cable, Data Domain, Decru, digg, DoubleClick, Facebook, Farecast, Internet Security Systems, Ikanos, Legato, LinkedIn, Media Metrix, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Openwave, Open Market, Red Hat, RightNow Technologies, Success Factors, Tellabs, Trilogy, Wily Technology, Workday and Zipcar.
Greylock primarily invests in early stage companies and occasionally invests in growth stage businesses. The firm has offices in Massachusetts, Israel and India.
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Meritech Capital is a leading provider of late-stage venture capital to premier information and medical technology companies based in Palo Alto, CA. With over $2.6 billion under management, Meritech seeks to lead investments in the portfolio companies of leading early stage venture capital firms.
Meritech’s investments are typically in mature companies with proven and differentiated technology, rapidly-growing revenue, and seasoned management teams. As a late stage investor, the firm provides guidance to portfolio companies on issues specific to maturing private companies including management incentive plans, IPO market timing and positioning, liquidity, adviser selection, and public company governance, audit and other similar requirements.
Founded in 1999, Meritech has backed many of the leading private technology companies in recent years, including Acclarent, Cloudera, Cornerstone OnDemand, Danger, Facebook, Fortinet, Fusion IO, Greenplum, Netezza, NetSuite, PopCap, Riverbed, Salesforce.com, Tableau, Tele Atlas, Wonga and Zipcar.
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In-Q-Tel is the strategic, not-for-profit investment firm that works to identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Launched in 1999 as a private, independent organization, IQT’s mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States.
Working from an evolving strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community’s critical technology needs, IQT engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and investors to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA and the larger Intelligence Community.
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Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
From turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.
Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets.
Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience.Ignition’s partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world’s most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.
