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Cloudera is a Santa Clara-based enterprise data lakehouse and hybrid data platform company founded in 2008; it IPO'd in 2017, merged with Hortonworks in 2019 and was taken private by KKR and CD&R for about $5.3B in 2021, and now focuses on private AI and data management across hybrid clouds.
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