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Cloudera Raises $160M

By TechTaffy Desk

Big data and Hadoop company Cloudera has closed a $160 million round of financing. The investment was led by T. Rowe Price, along with three top-tier public market investors, who were not named.

he financing also includes an investment by Google Ventures and an affiliate of MSD Capital, the private investment firm for Michael Dell and his family.

The brings the company’s total funding to date to $300 million.

[Image courtesy: Cloudera]

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