Dataiku raises $28m to enhance data science platform and double staff ZDNet

Dataiku has announced raising $28 million in a Series B round led by Battery Ventures, with participation from FirstMark, Serena Capital, and Alven. The Series B round brings the total amount raised by the New York City-headquartered data science software company to approximately $45 million. Dataiku said the funding will be allocated across three areas: Development, marketing, and recruitment. It plans to double its headcount to 200 employees across its offices in London, New York City, and Paris over the coming months, and add connectors to deep learning frameworks to its platform. Founded in France in 2014, Dataiku offers a "collaborative" platform, called Data Science Studio (DSS), with connectors to data sources, visual data preparation, and prepackaged machine-learning algorithms.