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Transforming the Performance of Your Big Data Systems at Scale

Companies today rely on big data to improve decision-making, deliver better customer experiences, and enter new markets. However, effectively managing big data performance has always been a difficult problem. Pepperdata was founded to solve this problem in 2012.

We’ve seen some of the best technology teams struggle to understand and solve their big data performance problems. They didn’t know why their workloads were failing, how their infrastructure bills got so high, or how to cost-effectively scale their big data workloads. Their cloud and digital transformation initiatives only made these challenges more complex.

Pepperdata shines a light into the unknown. We help enterprises unlock their big data potential by providing solutions that enable enterprises to get more out of their existing systems and applications. The Pepperdata solution automatically optimizes system resources while providing a detailed and correlated understanding of each application using hundreds of real-time application and infrastructure metrics. And unlike general-purpose APM vendors, Pepperdata is laser-focused on big data.

What started as a prototype built in the Silicon Valley basement of a tiny team is now a big data monitoring solution that companies like Expedia and Royal Bank of Canada rely on to recapture wasted capacity, run more applications, and get up to a 3X improvement in price/performance. Just like those companies, you can get more out of your big data performance. Pepperdata can help make that happen.

Pepperdata Leadership

Big data doesn’t make decisions, leaders do.

Maneesh Dhir
Chief Executive Officer

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Before joining Pepperdata, Maneesh was Chief Product Strategy officer at FICO’s (Fair Isaac Corporation) software business, based in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, he had an array of executive roles in the technology industry, ranging from Executive Vice President, International, at AOL to Managing Director of Apple’s India business, and prior stints at Netscape, Kiva Software (acq. by Netscape), and Sun Microsystems. Maneesh holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BS EE), and graduate degrees from the University of California Los Angeles (MS CS), and Stanford University (MBA).
Charles Marker
Vice President, Engineering

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Charles is a Silicon Valley veteran, having held executive positions at a number of prominent technology firms including Silicon Graphics, Atheros, Qualcomm, and Yahoo. Most recently, he was Global Head of Engineering for Guidewire Software where he implemented agile planning practices across the organization and lead the transition to cloud-native development. He began his technology career working on Operating System development for supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and for UNIX systems at MIPS Computer. Charles has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dan Marx
Vice President, Sales

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Dan Marx joined Pepperdata in 2014. Dan brings deep expertise in complex enterprise sales, including more than a decade in big data and analytics at Cloudwick, WANdisco, and Zettaset. Dan has a BBA in marketing from the Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Ashish Sahu
Vice President, Marketing

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Ashish is a software engineer turned marketer. He brings his unique cross-functional skills to launch and scale category-defining products in the big data, analytics, and AI/ML space at companies like SAP, Redis, Cask Data (acquired by Google Cloud), and MapD (now Heavy.AI). Ashish holds a BS in mechanical engineering from NIT (India), a degree in information systems from IIM (India), and an MBA from Haas School of Business, Berkeley.
Manuel Hoffmann
Vice President, Partnerships

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Manuel joins us from FICO, where he led Strategic Alliances and Partner Development efforts. In addition, he created the FICO Cloud Center of Excellence—dramatically reducing AWS expenses amidst rapid customer adoption and a growing number of engineering initiatives. Manuel holds a BS in electromechanical engineering from ECAM (Belgium), a degree in business administration from the University of Leuven (Belgium), and a certificate of international marketing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Joel Stewart
Vice President, Customer Success

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Joel is passionate about customers and distributed systems. He joined Pepperdata in 2018 with over 10 years experience in customer service for enterprise software companies. Combining his expertise in technology and his passion for customer success, he leads our support and services teams. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a focus on distributed computing from Westmont College.

Board Members

We partner with some of the brightest minds in technology to support a common goal: help our customers get the most out of their big data analytics investment.

Ash Munshi
Chairman of the Board

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Ash was formerly the CEO of Pepperdata. Before joining Pepperdata, Ash was executive chairman for Marianas Labs, a deep learning startup sold in December 2015. Prior to that, he was CEO for Graphite Systems, a big data storage startup that was sold to EMC DSSD in August 2015. Ash also served as CTO of Yahoo, as a CEO of both public and private companies, and is on the board of several technology startups. Ash attended Harvard University, Brown University, and Stanford University.
James McLean
Founder at Silicon Valley Data Capital

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Jim is the founder of Silicon Valley Data Capital and a co-founder of Silicon Valley Data Science. Previously, he was a Venture Partner at Crosslink Capital and has Board seats at Ayla, Coraid (observer), and 365 Main. Prior to joining Crosslink, Jim was the head of US investing for 3i Ventures, a global venture capital fund. Jim’s track record in the venture industry spans nearly two decades with experience at several of the industry’s leading firms. Before 3i, he was a Partner at ComVentures. Previously, he was a founder of Bedrock Capital Partners where he led the Information Technology practice. Prior to Bedrock, he served as a Partner at Highland Capital Partners and as an Associate at Accel Partners.
Linus Liang
Partner at Signia Ventures

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Linus Liang is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in technology and medical devices. He most recently co-founded a company called Embrace, a social enterprise that develops and distributes a low-cost infant incubator for developing countries. Unlike traditional incubators that cost up to $20,000, the Embrace Infant Warmer costs about 1% of this price and works without a constant supply of electricity. He has spent the last five years living in India and China scaling the company, which has now helped over 150,000 babies in 11 different countries. Prior to Embrace, Linus founded several software companies in the mobile and social networking space — the last one resulting in an acquisition by Zynga. Linus has also worked in the corporate sector as a Program Manager at Microsoft, a database researcher at IBM, and on the investment team at Andreessen Horowitz. Linus graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Peter Wagner
Founding Partner at Wing Venture Capital

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Peter is a Founding Partner of Wing. He has led investments in dozens of early stage companies, more than 25 of which have gone on to complete IPOs or successful acquisitions. Before founding Wing, Peter helped lead Accel Partners for 15 years as Managing Partner. Prior to joining Accel, Peter was a manager at Silicon Graphics, previously worked with McKinsey and Company, and began his career as a physicist working in nuclear fusion research and aerospace. Peter holds an A.B. in Physics from Harvard College, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Greg Sands
Founder and Managing Partner at Costanoa Ventures

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An early-stage investor for over 20 years, Greg helps startups analyze and interpret early signals to identify and leverage the most valuable aspects of their solution. As Managing Director at Costanoa, Greg is focused on investing in the next generation of great enterprise technology companies. Prior to founding Costanoa, Greg was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill focusing on early-stage, enterprise technology investments, including Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Quinstreet, Feedburner and Youku.

Investors

We partner with the technology leaders focused on the Modern Enterprise, an agile workplace built on data and powered by AI.

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Citi Ventures accelerates innovation at Citi by venture capital investing, rapid experimentation in its global lab network, and driving growth initiatives across Citi.
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Costonoa Ventures has helped hundreds of startups go to market, achieve product-market-fit, and become successful. They focus on early-stage companies because it’s where they have the most impact. They invest mostly in SaaS infrastructure and marketplaces because they believe they change how business gets done.
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Signia Venture Partners Signia Venture Partners is a unique early-stage venture fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs build impactful, world-changing, and iconic companies. Signia operates as co-founders and investors in five key areas: mobility, enterprise, education, e-commerce, and data and in new disruptive technologies.
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The SVD Capital team represents four generations of enterprise technology investment professionals including venture investors, c-level executives, senior advisors, serial entrepreneurs, and founders. Today, we apply the lessons we’ve learned from these environments to systematically design, test, build, and invest in positive experiences that help you maximize your potential and that of those around you.
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WIN’s goal is to invest in companies that aim to change the world, particularly in the fields of cloud computing, enterprise software, mobile, marketplaces, e-commerce, crowdsourcing, and consumer Internet.
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Wing Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/start-ups, early stage, and growth capital. It prefers to invest in business technology companies operating in enterprise, cloud computing, mobility, mobile technology, and data technology areas.

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Pepperdata has been named an Enterprise High Performer based on having high customer satisfaction scores. In the latest G2 survey, 94% of Pepperdata customers said they would recommend Pepperdata and believe the company is headed in the right direction.

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