Tuesday, June 18, 2013

GoodData - $22 Million in Funding = Amazing Press




BOCA nails it for GoodData funding news - but of course. GoodData is GoodData, an amazing enterprise company. We are proud to call you our PR partner.



Wall Street Journal, Don Clark (6/12/2013)
“ ‘We didn’t want to do the typical venture round this time,’ says Roman Stanek, GoodData’s CEO. ‘We feel like we are strong in business in the U.S. and we want to grow internationally.’ ”

AllThingsD, Arik Hesseldahl (6/12/2013)
“In addition to the investment, TOTVS has become a distribution partner, giving GoodData access to a market worth about $9 billion.”

TechCrunch, Alex Williams (6/13/2013)
“GoodData has raised $22 million in a Series D round, with funding led by Sao-Paulo-based TOTVS Ventures, the investment arm of TOTVS S.A., the largest enterprise software company in Latin America. Also participating were Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Next World Capital and Tenaya Capital, who also participated in the latest round. This is TOTVS’ first investment outside Brazil.”

“…A cloud-based business intelligence technology company, GoodData has now raised $75.5 million and looks poised to join the IPO crowd, at least at some point. Founded in the Czech Republic by Roman Stanek and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is one of the leaders in the emerging new business intelligence market.”

Dow Jones, Deborah Gage (6/12/2013)
“GoodData Corp., a provider of business analytics software, has raised a $22 million Series D investment led by Totvs Ventures , the investment arm of publicly traded Latin American enterprise software company Totvs SA .”

VentureBeat, Rebecca Grant, (6/13/2013)
“GoodData is one of Silicon Valleys “enterprise cool kids.” It is a business-intelligence service provider, meaning businesses use its cloud-based technology to make data-driven decisions. The platform includes operational dashboards, metrics and performance reports, data storage, analytics, and collaboration tools. Founder Roman Stanek said GoodData stands out from the crowd because it emphasizes heavily on user experience to make the tick technical elements of big data comprehensible to people outside of IT.”

VentureBeat, Jolie O’Dell (6/13/2013)
“Big data” company GoodData has raised $22 million from Latin America’s largest enterprise software company. GoodData is one of Silicon Valley’s “enterprise cool kids.”

ZDNet, Larry Dignan (6/14/2013)
“Latin America's largest enterprise software company, TOTVS, invested in the latest venture round of GoodData in a move that highlights how cloud big data and analytics will play a big role in the region.”
Fortune, Dan Primack (6/13/2013)
“This represents the first investment outside of Brazil for TOTVS Ventures, the investment arm of listed Brazilian enterprise software company TOTVS” 

PandoDaily, Staff (6/13/2013)
GoodData raises $22 million Series D (announcement in ticker linked to press release)

San Francisco Business Times, Patrick Hoge (6/12/2013)
“Founded in 2007, San Francisco-based GoodData has now raised $75 million, and it is preparing for an expansion campaign to Latin America. Brazil-based Totvs’sAlexandre Dinkelmann will join the board of directors.”

Silicon Valley Business Journal, Cromwell Schubarth (6/12/2013)
"We're now taking GoodData to the next step: leveraging Totvs's dominant position in the region to extend our U.S. leadership to the $9 billion Latin America software market," Stanek said in a prepared statement.

peHUB, Alastair Goldfisher (6/12/2013)
“This is the first investment outside of Brazil for TOTVS Ventures, which typically invests in seed and Series A and B deals, according to the firm’s website. San Francisco-based GoodData, which helps corporations crunch data generated by SAP and other enterprise software programs, has now raised about $75 million in total funding.”

Pulse 2.0, Staff (6/13/2013)
“GoodData has raised a total of over $75 million so far.  TOTVS Ventures is the investment arm company of enterprise software company TOTVS.  Alexandre Dinkelmann of TOTVS is joining GoodData’s board of directors.”

PulsoSocial, Emily Stewart (6/13/2013)
“So why go with GoodData first? Based in San Francisco, GoodData provides a platform and applications for cloud-based big data analytics. Its on-demand business development services help business users, analysts and IT professionals capture and process data through dashboards, reports and custom metrics. Importantly, GoodData requires no hardware or software for integration.”
QuinnSight Research, Evan Quinn (6/13/2013)
“I am bullish on all of the “as-a-service” big data players, like Birst, TreasureData, and Qubole, though the latter two are still quite early stage.  But GoodData has emerged as the option with the most current customer momentum, and the most pizzazz.  While thus far GoodData has focused on marketing and services industry as their primary horizontal and vertical use case, it strikes me that if they could add a few more analytics apps style offerings, they would be ready to qualify for take-off.  Plus, GoodData’s executives and board possess strong, proven entrepreneurial pedigree.”

Tech Market View, Anthony Miller (6/13/2013)
“The real beneficiary though should be GoodData, which will now have the backing of the region's best known indigenous software firm with which to establish its credentials.”

MR Web, Staff (6/14/2013)
“Cloud-based big data analytics specialist GoodData, headquartered in San Francisco, has raised $22m in Series D funding, which it will use to support its expansion into the Latin American enterprise software market.”

NewNet, Staff (6/13/2013)
“Executive vice president of strategy and finance at TOTVS Alexandre Dinkelmann said, ‘By combining GoodData’s intuitive analytics with our market-leading enterprise software, we are creating the cloud analytics leader in Latin America and giving access to Big Data solutions to our clients in Latin America.”

Venture Capital Dispatch, Staff (6/13/2013)
“Also in today’s VentureWire, GoodData, a developer of business analytics software, has raised a $22 million Series D round led by Totvs Ventures, the investment arm of Latin American software company Totvs SA”

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

DataStax: Cassandra (C*) Summit - A Success







DataStax: Cassandra (C*) Summit

The sun is out and the weather is warm again, it is finally summer in San Francisco. Aside from the pleasantries the beginning of summer brings, it also marks the time for our client DataStax's Cassandra (C*) Summit. The 3rd annual C* Summit got underway yesterday at Fort Mason in San Francisco. 

This year DataStax was able to draw over 1,500 attendees and a select group of their major customers such as Netflix, Ooyala, and more. BOCA was also able to secure some great media and analyst attendees for the event as well. Their attendance made for some great coverage around DataStax and their event, take a look at some of the coverage BOCA was able to secure:







BOCA is honored to represent such a great client who is making such a serious wave in the Enterprise. The C* Summit really speaks volumes for how quickly their company is growing and how popular they have become. Just 3 years ago they only had 11 customers but are now boasting a customer list of over 300 customers, including 20 of the Fortune 100. 

Our joint in-house and BOCA team have made some great strides and we are looking forward to continued success with DataStax. We just love working with Alex, Lara and the rest of the executive management team - we are impressed daily.  As they wrap up their conference later today, we would like to wish them well for a great finish to the event. You can follow them on TwitterLinkedIn, and Facebook to keep up with the rest of the conference and all things DataStax. 

-BOCA Team