Imply Corporation

Imply is a computer software company founded by the creators of Druid, that aims to help organizations with exploratory data analysis using Druid.[1]

Imply
IndustryComputer software
Founded2015 (2015)
Founders
  • Fangjin Yang
  • Gian Merlino
  • Vadim Ogievetsky
Headquarters
Burlingame, California
,
United States
Websitewww.imply.io

History

Imply's co-founders, Fangjin Yang (one of the original co-authors of Druid), Gian Merlino, and Vadim Ogievetsky (who was involved in the development of D3.js), previously worked together on Druid as early stage employees of Metamarkets, a San Francisco-based data startup.[2]

The first product of Imply "is the Imply Analytics Platform, which includes Druid and other open-source components like a user interface and the PlyQL SQL-like query language."[3]

By 2011, the Druid project was started at Metamarkets to power an analytics product. Druid was open sourced in October 2012 under the GPL license.[4][5] Over time, notable organizations including Netflix[6] and Yahoo[7] adopted the project into their technology stacks. The increased adoption led Metamarkets to change the license of the project to Apache.[8] With the growing popularity of the open source project, the creators of the project at Metamarkets decided to form Imply.

In October 2015, Imply announced that it had raised $2 million from Khosla Ventures.[3]The company said it would contribute to Druid.[9]

In December 2019, Imply announced that it had raised a Series B round of an additional $30 million at a valuation of $350 million.[10] The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Ventures.

Products
  • Imply Cloud - Imply Cloud is a full-stack Druid system that is offered as a controlled Amazon Web Services application.
  • Imply Pivot - Pivot allows for high-speed OLAP-style queries via drag-and - drop connections with very broad data sets.
  • Imply Clarity
  • Imply Manager

[10]References
  1. Imply. "Imply - About". imply.io. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  2. Imply. "Imply - About". imply.io. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  3. "Imply launches with $2M to commercialize the Druid open-source data store". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  4. Higginbotham, Stacey. "Gigaom | Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database". Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  5. druid. "Druid | Introducing Druid". druid.io. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  6. druid. "Druid | Introducing Druid". druid.io. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  7. "Complementing Hadoop at Yahoo: Interactive Analytics with Druid". Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  8. Harris, Derrick. "Gigaom | The Druid real-time database moves to an Apache license". Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  9. Imply. "Announcing Imply: An Enterprise Solution for Druid and Interactive Analytics at Scale". imply.io. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  10. Hernbroth, Megan. "Andreessen Horowitz's new growth fund just invested $30 million into Imply, an open source data analytics startup taking on Microsoft and Salesforce's Tableau". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
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