Koverse

CEO: Jon Matsuo

Koverse has developed a "data lake-in-a-box" platform that the company says makes it possible to collect big data and put it into production much more quickly and at lower cost than with current technologies and practices.

The Seattle-based company was started in 2012 and an early 1.0 version of its technology debuted more than two years ago. The Koverse Platform 2.0, which launched in June, incorporates the Apache Accumulo "distributed key/value store" technology and the company's own Universal Indexing Engine.

Co-founders Paul Brown (chief product officer) and Aaron Cordova (chief technology officer) worked as data scientists at the National Security Agency where they helped develop the original Accumulo project and re-architected that organization's data infrastructure to better handle unanticipated data analytical situations.