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Pepperdata is a technology company.
Pepperdata has raised $22.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Key people at Pepperdata.
Pepperdata has raised $22.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Pepperdata develops dynamic resource optimization software for data workloads. Its Capacity Optimizer product autonomously manages resource allocation in Kubernetes and YARN environments. This technology significantly boosts infrastructure utilization and application performance, enabling enterprises to reduce costs and streamline complex data systems without manual tuning or code changes.
Founded in 2012 by Chad Carson and Sean Suchter, Pepperdata stemmed from recognizing inefficiencies in rapidly expanding big data systems. Sean Suchter, a foundational Hadoop engineer from Yahoo, provided critical expertise. Their insight drove an automated solution to address persistent performance and resource challenges in large-scale data processing.
Pepperdata's solutions serve diverse organizations, from startups to global enterprises, across major cloud platforms and on-premises infrastructure. The company's vision maximizes value from data investments. By optimizing resource efficiency, Pepperdata empowers businesses to handle more workloads, accelerate cloud-native migrations, and reallocate resources for strategic innovation.
Pepperdata has raised $22.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Pepperdata's investors include Wing Venture Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, American Express Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Canaan Partners, Canvas Ventures, DNX Ventures, Floodgate, G2VP, General Atlantic, Glencrest Group, Joe Kraus.
Pepperdata has raised $22.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $15.0M Series B in April 2015.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2015 | $15M Series B | Wing Venture Capital | AME Cloud Ventures, American Express Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Canaan Partners, Canvas Ventures, DNX Ventures, Floodgate, G2vp, General Atlantic, Glencrest Group, JOE Kraus, Hardware Club, IVP, Lakeside Capital, Lobby Capital, Mango Capital, Nokia Growth Partners, PruVen Capital, Shasta Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, The Valley Fund, Trinity Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Lisa Gansky, Mike Abbott, Rashaun Williams, Andy Ludwick, Jerry Yang, Maynard Webb, Vishal Makhijani, Ramneek Gupta, Signia Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Data Capital | Announced |
| Apr 1, 2014 | $5M Series A | ED Cluss, Webb Investment Network | AME Cloud Ventures, Andrew Wheeler, Hardware Club, Morado Venture Partners, Signia Venture Partners, Visionaire Ventures, Andy Ludwick, ED Zander, Jerry Yang | Announced |
| Nov 1, 2012 | $2M Seed | — | Signia Venture Partners | Announced |
Key people at Pepperdata.
Pepperdata is a software company that provides observability and automatic, application-aware resource optimization for big data, Kubernetes, and AI workloads to reduce cost and improve performance for enterprise data platforms[6][5].
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Quick take: Pepperdata is a focused enterprise software vendor that combines deep application instrumentation with autonomous optimization to reduce waste and improve performance in big data and Kubernetes environments, and it is well-positioned to grow as data and AI workloads continue to drive cloud spend and demand for automated efficiency[6][5][3].[6][5][3]
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