Pachyderm

CEO: Joe Doliner

Eschewing much of the current generation of big data technology, startup Pachyderm has developed an open-source analytics engine that uses Docker containers for performing distributed computations.

The point is to offer a data analytics infrastructure that is containerized, modularized and scalable, using such tools as Docker and Kubernetes as building blocks. The company's Pachyderm File System and Pachyderm Pipeline System software helps data managers and analysts build machine-learning pipelines and data ETL (extract, transform and load) workflows.

Founded in 2014, San Francisco-based Pachyderm raised $2 million in seed funding in June.