Seattle startup Expanso raised a $7.5 million seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Hetz Ventures to fuel growth of its software that provides data infrastructure capabilities at the “edge.”
- The technology, powered by open source software Expanso developed called Bacalhau, aims to help companies process data where it is being created, streamlining distributed big data processing systems.
- “Expanso brings compute to the data, enabling businesses to operate securely at their operational pace and maximize the utility of valuable data,” Quentin Clark, managing director of General Catalyst, said in a statement.
- The 10-person company is led by CEO and co-founder David Aronchick, a longtime Seattle tech vet who previously worked at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, where he helped create Kubeflow, an open source platform for machine learning operations. Expanso’s founding CTO Walid Baruni also worked at Amazon. Other backers in the round include Array Ventures and Protocol Labs.
