Platfora
Platfora was a big-data analytics company founded in 2011 by Ben Werther that provided in-memory business intelligence and data visualization directly on top of Apache Hadoop, letting analysts run interactive queries, build "lenses," and share dashboards without ETL into a separate warehouse. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, In-Q-Tel and others, it raised roughly $65M before Workday acquired the company in July 2016 and folded the technology into Workday's analytics stack. The standalone Platfora product and platfora.com developer surface were subsequently discontinued; the domain no longer resolves and no public API or developer program remains.
Platfora is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Data Visualization.
Kin Score
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Source (apis.yml)
aid: platfora
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/platfora.png
name: Platfora
description: Platfora was a big-data analytics company founded in 2011 by Ben Werther that provided in-memory business intelligence
and data visualization directly on top of Apache Hadoop, letting analysts run interactive queries, build "lenses," and share
dashboards without ETL into a separate warehouse. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, In-Q-Tel and others,
it raised roughly $65M before Workday acquired the company in July 2016 and folded the technology into Workday's analytics
stack. The standalone Platfora product and platfora.com developer surface were subsequently discontinued; the domain no
longer resolves and no public API or developer program remains.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/platfora/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: The standalone Platfora product and platfora.com developer surface were subsequently discontinued; the
domain no longer resolves and no public API or developer program remains.
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: Acquired by Workday July 2016; product discontinued; platfora.com no longer resolves (no A/MX records, MarkMonitor
NS only).
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- battery-ventures
- dcvc
- wing-venture-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Analytics
- Big Data
- Business Intelligence
- Data Visualization
- Hadoop
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 0
pass: local-v1
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