Alluxio
Open Source Data Orchestration for Analytics and Machine Learning in the Cloud
TL;DR
Origin: Emerged from UC Berkeley AMPLab research (originally called Tachyon)
Product: Distributed data orchestration and caching platform that accelerates AI and data-intensive workloads
Founded: 2015 (company formation listed on Crunchbase)
Funding: Total funding reported > $70M; $50M Series C announced 2021-11-16
Investors: Backed by Hillhouse Investment, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Volcanics Ventures, Seven Seas Partners, plus individual investors
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Data access latency and I/O bottlenecks for analytics and machine learning across hybrid and multi-cloud storage environments.
Founded
2015
Industry
Open source data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Tech Stack
Funding Track Record
$50M
Announcement stated this brought total funding to more than $70M.
$15.5M
Extension of Series B; announcement stated total funding to date was $23M.
$7.5M
Reported Series A financing in 2016.
Investor Signal
“Includes Hillhouse Investment, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Volcanics Ventures, Seven Seas Partners, and individual investors such as Sujal Patel, Tony Zhao, and Mark Leslie.”