When was Hortonworks founded?

Hortonworks was founded in 2011 and raised its 1st funding round within a year of its incorporation.

Where is Hortonworks located?

Hortonworks is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.

How many employees does Hortonworks have?

As of Apr 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Hortonworks is 123.

Is Hortonworks a funded company?

Hortonworks is a funded company, having raised a total of $248M across 5 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $23M Series A round, raised on Jun 2011.

When was the latest funding round of Hortonworks?

Hortonworks' latest funding was a $50M Series D round on Jul 24, 2014, with participation from 1 investor.

Is Hortonworks a Big Data Infrastructure company?

The primary sectors of Hortonworks are Big Data Infrastructure and Open Source.

Where does Hortonworks rank among its competitors?

Hortonworks ranks 5th amongst 30 active competitors, of which 8 are funded. It stands 4th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was 5X, which secured $3M in Jul, 2023.

Who are the top competitors of Hortonworks?

Hortonworks' top competitors include NetApp, DEEPEXI and Actian. Among them, 5X secured the most recent funding round in July, 2023.

Hortonworks - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Q: Is Hortonworks an acquired company?

Hortonworks got acquired by Cloudera on Oct 04, 2018.

Company Details

Hortonworks provides a commercial version of Apache Hadoop and related technologies. Its offering, Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), is based on Apache Big Data projects that helps organizations in storing, managing and analyzing big data. HDP is based around HDFS and YARN, that enables multi-workload data processing across various processing methods, from batch to interactive SQL to real-time. The platform offers integration capabilities with tools for security, operations management and and data governance, thus enabling a complete big data ecosystem. All the components of distribution are the Apache opensource projects and no proprietary software is included. It has strategic partnerships with HP, Microsoft, Rackspace, Red Hat, SAP, Teradata and Yahoo. It is recognized as a leader in the Forrester Wave on Big Data Hadoop Solutions in 2014. Hortonworks went public in Dec 2014.

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Key Metrics

Founded Year

2011

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$248M in 5 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series D, Jul 24, 2014, $50M

Investors

HP & 12 more

Ranked

5^th among 30 active competitors

Employee Count

123 as on Apr 30, 2026

Investment & Acquisitions

Onyara & 2 more

Similar Companies

Cloudera & 93 more

Exit Details

Acquired by Cloudera (Oct 04, 2018)

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Hortonworks has raised a total funding of $248M over 5 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jun 2011. Its latest funding round was a Series D round on Jul 24, 2014 for $50M. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Hortonworks has 13 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Hortonworks:

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Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Jul 24, 2014	$50M	Series D	-	-	HP	-
Mar 25, 2014	$100M	Series D	-	-	-	BlackRock, Passport Capital, Tenaya Capital, Index Ventures, Yahoo, Benchmark
Jun 25, 2013	$50M	Series C	-	-	Tenaya Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group	Index Ventures, Benchmark, Yahoo

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The founders of Hortonworks are Rob Bearden and Arun C Murthy.

Here are the details of Hortonworks' key team members:

Rob Bearden: Former Co-Founder of Hortonworks.
Arun C Murthy: Former Co-Founder of Hortonworks.

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Hortonworks' employee count trend

Hortonworks has 123 employees as of Apr 26. Here is Hortonworks's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Hortonworks include NetApp, DEEPEXI and Actian. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Hortonworks, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	NetApp 1992, San Jose (United States), Public	Provider of cloud based platform offering software for enterprise data management	-	Greenleaf Trust, Sutter Hill Ventures & 4 others	73/100
2nd	DEEPEXI 2018, Haidian (China), Public	Provider of a big data stack	$256M	IDG Capital, Hillhouse & 14 others	57/100
3rd	Actian 2005, Redwood City (United States), Acquired	Hybrid data management platform	-	TriplePoint Capital, Garnett & Helfrich Capital	56/100
4th	Stratio 2013, Palo Alto (United States), Series C	Platform for Batch, Interactive and Stream Processing Using Spark	$78.3M	InfraVia Capital Partners, Adara & 3 others	55/100
5th	Hortonworks 2011, Palo Alto (United States), Acquired	Commercial version of Apache Hadoop	$248M	Herald Investment Management, HP & 11 others	55/100
6th	MapR 2009, San Jose (United States), Acqui-Hired	Provider of Hadoop enterprise-grade platform	$347M	Lightspeed Venture Partners, Future Fund ... & 11 others	52/100
7th	Citycloud International 2012, Hangzhou (China), Series D	Provider of big data stack solutions	$274M	Country Garden, Greenland & 8 others	46/100
8th	5X 2021, Singapore (Singapore), Seed	Cloud based platform offering a suite of data intelligence solutions	$3M	Flybridge Capital Partners, 5x Safe1 & 25 others	45/100
9th	Datacoral 2016, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	Provider of stack of technologies for big data	$14M	Madrona, Social Capital	44/100
10th	TRS 1998, Chaoyang (China), Public	Cloud-based platform for enterprise information management	-	Fortune Capital, bluecapital.cc & 1 others	43/100

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Hortonworks has acquired 3 companies including Onyara, SequenceIQ and XaSecure. Hortonworks has not made any investments as of now.

Here is the list of its acquisitions:

Date of Investment/Acquisition	Type	Company Name	Founded Year	Location
Aug 25, 2015	Acquisition	Onyara	2015	Washington, DC (United States)
Apr 13, 2015	Acquisition	SequenceIQ	2014	Budapest (Hungary)
May 15, 2014	Acquisition	XaSecure	2013	Fremont (United States)