Ahana
Top Executive: Steven Mih, Co-Founder, CEO
Headquarters: San Mateo, Calif.
Ahana is one of several companies building big data systems around Presto, a high-performance, distributed SQL query engine for big data residing in a variety of data sources. Presto originally was developed by Facebook for querying data in the company’s multi-petabyte data warehouse. Facebook open-sourced the Presto technology in 2013.
Ahana recently emerged from stealth and is developing ad-hoc analytics software around PrestoDB, an open-source project based on the Presto technology. In early June the company said that it had raised $2.25 million in seed funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), money the company will use to expand its technical team and accelerate its development work.
