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.

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Source (apis.yml)

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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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