This Silicon Valley software enterprise can lay claim to being the company

that pioneered one platform for all data across every cloud . MapR ’ s technology offers analytics that help companies make business decisions and has partnership agreements with the likes of Amazon , Cisco , Google , Microsoft and SAP . At present MapR has 500 staff and $ 500mn in funding .

Elastic builds software that enables real-time data usage . Launched in 2012 , the company ’ s portfolio includes Elastic Stack ( Elasticsearch , Kibana , Beats , and Logstash ), X-Pack and Elastic Cloud . In its own words , the company reliably and securely takes data from any source , in any format , in order to search , analyse and visualise it in real time . Based in Amsterdam , Elastic currently employs 550 staff and has around $ 104mn in funding . 60 March 2018