Nexus Venture Partners, others invest $5 million in data management co Infoworks

Company expands management team

Infoworks, an automated big data management company, today announced that it has secured $5 million in a Series-A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners. The round also saw participation by Knoll Ventures and others. 

Infoworks says its platform provides a high-performance, scalable and shared data repository that supports all enterprise analytics on Hadoop through software automation and intelligent data organisation.

The company has engineering operations in Bangalore.

Amar Arsikere, CEO and co-founder of Infoworks in a statement said that just as Google crawls the web and organises information for search, the Infoworks DDW platform automatically crawls enterprise databases, ingests the data into Hadoop, and organises it into high performance data warehouses and other data models that support all enterprise use cases, including cubes.

Arsikere was previously responsible for designing and building a data warehousing platform on Bigtable at Google, and a petabyte scale in-memory data infrastructure at Zynga.

To address the need for a solution for enterprises to manage data warehousing on Hadoop, Arsikere teamed up with Buno Pati to found Infoworks in 2014.

Infoworks also announced today that it has expanded its management team, bringing onboard Ramesh Menon as head of product management and Jitender Nankani as head of customer success.

Menon, most recently led product management at YarcData, and previously directed market strategy for Informatica's Master Data Management business unit. 

Nankani was most recently a principal at Saama and has delivered numerous big data solutions for Fortune 500 companies.