The document discusses big data investments and exits in Boston. It notes that $19.9 billion was invested in US startups in Q2, with $32 billion invested worldwide. It provides details on major funding rounds for several big data companies, including Domo ($450 million total), MarkLogic ($176 million total), and SumoLogic ($161 million total). It also lists several acquisitions of big data companies, such as Applied Predictive Technologies (acquired by MasterCard for $600 million) and ColdLight (acquired by PTC for $105 million). The document examines how companies are shifting from traditional IT approaches to new approaches focused on big data, the cloud, and predictive analytics.

1. Rodan Zadeh
Big Data Is Big Business for Boston
Case of Too Many B’s

2. My Thesis from MIT
Joseph Pine – Mass Customization

3. CIOs Investment
• The Global CIO Survey 2014-2015
• CSC and IDG

4. BIG NEWS
• Some context
• Recent investments
• Recent exits
• $19.9B in Q2 (all US VC)
• $32B in Q2 WW
• Shift to open source model
• Moving from ‘Goods’ to ‘Services’

5. BIG INVESTMENTS
• Domo $200M Series D
• Total $450M
• MarkLogic $102M Series F
• Total $176M
• Banjo $100m Series C
• Total $121M
• SumoLogic $80M Series E
• Total $161M
• SnowFlake $45M Series C
• Total $71M
• Saama Technologies $35M
Series A
• Guavus $30M
• Total $130M
• Lattice Engines $28M Series D
• Total $75M
• Feedzai $17.5M Series B
• Total $26M
• Rocana $15M Series B
• Total $19.4M
• Windward $10.8M Series B
• Total $15.8M
Company Amount
Lyra Health $3.1M
Maana $11M ($14M Total)
Massive Analytic $2M
Seed Round
Q2 2015

6. BIG EXITS
Company Acquired By Deal Size
Applied Predictive Technologies MasterCard $600M
ColdLight PTC $105M
Seed Scientific Spotify N/D
Next Big Sound Pandora N/D
Datazen Microsoft N/D
Whetlab Twitter N/D

7. What’s Going On?
In case we haven’t noticed, there’s a radical sea change in how
companies are operating, and it will impact every organization, every
line of business, and every individual.

8. Bimodal IT – Where’s the Value?
Traditional IT
• Living with the knowns
• Schema on write
• RDBMS
• File Systems
• Single Source of truth
• Command and control
• User must be trained
• Redundant – High Availability
• ACID
• Resilient
‘New’ IT
• Living with unknowns
• Schema on read
• NoSQL
• Object Storage
• Discovery
• Collaboration
• User ‘knows’
• Designed for Failure – Fail Fast
• Eventual Consistency
• Agile

9. Supply Chain Consumption
PC ERP Internet
Supply Chain -
Consumption
Systems of Records
(1990 to 2010)
Adopted from Geoffrey Moore’s
session at Hadoop Summit June 2015
Use Cases

10. Drive Towards Customer Satisfaction
PC ERP Internet
Mobile Social Cloud
Supply Chain -
Consumption
Customer
Satisfaction
Systems of Engagement
(2010 to 2020)
Systems of Records
(1990 to 2010)
Adopted from Geoffrey Moore’s
session at Hadoop Summit June 2015
Use Cases

11. Predictive Trend Detection
Trend Detection
PC ERP Internet
Mobile Social Cloud
Supply Chain -
Consumption
Customer
Satisfaction
Systems of Engagement
(2010 to 2020)
Systems of Insight
(2020 to 2030)
Systems of Records
(1990 to 2010)
Sensors Big Data Web-Scale
Adopted from Geoffrey Moore’s
session at Hadoop Summit June 2015
Use Cases

12. Thank You

13. • Personal background
• Cultural and social experience: First generation
immigrant
• Innate curiosity: Had a science lab at 8 in my room
• Technical propensity: Attended electronics
vocational school at 12
• Entrepreneurial: Started my own business at 13
• Education
• BS in Electrical Engineering / Information
Technologies
• MS in Technology Management
• ITIL v3, Cloud Architect, Hands-on Big Data
About Me