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The 10 Hottest Big Data Startups of 2022
Rick Whiting
Businesses are looking to next-generation database systems, data transformation and integration tools and big data analytics software to help them leverage exploding volumes of data. Here’s a look at 10 hot big data startups developing leading-edge software and services that help solution providers and customers meet their big data challenges.

StarTree
CEO: Kishore Gopalakrishna
Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif.
StarTree develops a cloud-based, real-time data analytics platform based on Apache Pinot, an open-source, real-time distributed OLAP datastore.
The StarTree technology collects data from SQL databases and batch and streaming data sources and performs real-time analysis for a range of tasks including personalization, user-facing analytics, ad hoc analysis, business metrics and anomaly detection.
StarTree was founded in 2018 by the original creators of Apache Pinot and officially launched in early 2021. In August the startup raised $47 million in a Series B funding round led by GGV Capital.