	WHY WE INVESTED: We are in the “big data” era. Companies now create more data in one day than they used to create in one year, and they need tools like the platform Platfora is building to help them make sense of it all. The team is top notch and very experienced in the world of Hadoop.
TEAM Ben Werther HEADQUARTERS San Francisco, CA FOUNDED 2011 CO-INVESTORS Andressen Horowitz, Angels	Platfora is a software company building a revolutionary BI and analytics platform that democratizes and simplifies use of big data and Hadoop.