Alluxio 

CEO: Steven Mih

Alluxio has developed a data orchestration platform for analytics and machine learning in the cloud. The Alluxio system, based on a memory-centric architecture, fundamentally enables the separation of storage and compute, bringing data closer to distributed compute operations and simplifying data access for cloud workloads.

Alluxio was founded in 2015 at U.C. Berkeley's AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project. Based in San Mateo, Calif., Alluxio raised $8.5 million in Series B financing in January, bringing its total funding to $16 million. Mih was named CEO in March with founding CEO Haoyuan Li, who developed the Alluxio technology, becoming chief technology officer.