$16m for Big Data Firm Alpine

San Mateo, CA-based big data platform Alpine Data Labs has raised $16m in a funding round.

Participants in the round were UMC Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sierra Ventures and Mission Ventures. The funds are not earmarked for any specific goal, but investment site www.vcpost.com suggests they may go towards 'improving Alpine's user experience'.

Alpine chief executive Joe Otto (pictured) says the firm's technology sets it apart from big data analytics competitors: 'You can definitely use the Alpine system without understanding a language like MapReduce or Pig. It's now time for them to leverage that data into the 'killer app' of big data: analytics'.

Like a number of other big data firms, Alpine says its Hadoop-based technology is aimed at more general users, not specialist data scientisits. Its key product Alpine Miner is designed to simplify the process of building analytics workflows and predictive models for massive data sets.

The company is online at www.alpinedatalabs.com .

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