Cloudera

Data platform company incorporated in Delaware in June 2008 (10-K FY2021, primary), headquartered in Santa Clara, California (10-K FY2021; the 2026 press releases carry Santa Clara and San Jose datelines). Founders Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, Jeff Hammerbacher and Mike Olson are from Wikipedia only (not confirmed from a primary page).

Corporate history (SEC filings, primary):

• IPO: prospectus (424B4) filed 2017-04-28; common stock traded on the NYSE as CLDR.
• Hortonworks merger: 8-K of 2019-01-03 (Item 2.01) reports completion of the merger, in which Hortonworks stock and equity awards converted into Cloudera stock and awards.
• Take-private: on 2021-06-01 Cloudera agreed to be acquired by affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR for USD 16.00 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately USD 5.3 billion (8-K and press release exhibit); the merger closed 2021-10-08 (8-K), and Cloudera filed Form 15 on 2021-10-19.
• Verta: Cloudera press release “Cloudera Acquires Verta for Operational AI” dated 2024-06-03 (terms not checked).

Leadership (cloudera.com/about/leadership, opened 2026-10-08): Charles Sansbury, Chief Executive Officer; Leo Brunnick, Chief Product Officer; Abhas (surname not shown), Chief Business Officer and GM, Applied AI; Irma Laxamana, Chief Legal Officer.

2026 press releases (cloudera.com, dates confirmed 2026-10-08): AI Inference and Data Warehouse with Trino on premises, plus Data Visualization updates (2026-02-09); ServiceNow zero-copy connector (2026-05-05); Apache Polaris adoption (2026-06-04); VAST Data partnership (2026-07-14); Cloudera Anywhere Cloud (2026-08-19); NVIDIA Spark acceleration (2026-08-20); Mistral partnership (2026-09-10). Product note: Cloudera Data Platform.

Sources

• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535379/000162828021005632/cldr-20210131.htm (10-K FY2021, incorporation June 2008, Santa Clara)
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535379/000119312521177699/d168575dex991.htm (press release exhibit, 2021-06-01, USD 5.3 billion, USD 16.00 per share) and …/d168575d8k.htm
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535379/000119312521294924/d223205d8k.htm (8-K, merger completed 2021-10-08)
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535379/000162828019000077/cloudera8-k132019.htm (8-K 2019-01-03, Hortonworks merger completion)
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535379/000162828017004450/cloudera424b4.htm (IPO prospectus filing 2017-04-28)
• https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-06-03-cloudera-acquires-verta.html ; https://www.cloudera.com/about/leadership.html ; https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases.html (primary)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudera (secondary, lead only)

Open items

• Founders’ names, founding day (2008-06-27) and Burlingame as founding place: Wikipedia only. Doug Cutting joining in 2009: unverified, dropped.
• Verta deal terms; current financials (private company, no filings since 2021).
• The Abhas surname on the leadership page.