INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform that is
designed to simplify much of the processing to get to querying and application building faster.As for the funding, it includes $3 million in
seed money they got when they started the company, and a more recent $18.5 million Series A, which was led by Sequoia and Greylock.Jerry
cloud and can handle a lot of the activities that data scientists have traditionally had to handle manually
bit about processing data at scale
He wanted to start a company that would help data scientists get to insights more quickly.Data typically requires a lot of massaging before
data scientists and developers can make use of it and Rockset has been designed to bypass much of that hard work that can take days, weeks
fast SQL directly on raw data
So developers and data scientists can go from useful data in any shape, any form to useful applications in a matter of minutes
and Rockset deals with the data ingestion, building the schema, cleaning the data, everything
It also makes sure you have the right amount of infrastructure to manage the level of data you are working with
In other words, it can potentially simplify highly complex data processing tasks to start working with the raw data almost immediately using
When we index the data, we build more than one type of index behind the scenes so that a wide spectrum of pre-processing can be
That takes the burden of processing and building data pipelines off of the user.The company was founded in 2016
Chen and Sequoia partners Mike Vernal joined the Rockset board under the terms of the Series A funding, which closed last August.
