US-based Startup Founded By Japanese, Hapyrus Raises $925K From Famous Investors In Japan And US / TechWave

Silicon Valley-based startup, Hapyrus announced fundraising of $925,000 from angel investors and venture capital. Investors include William Lohse, who are former CEO of Ziff Davis and early investor of Pinterest.

Hapyrus provides a cloud solution to support handling big data.  It started to provide FlyData which transfers data on web sites or applications to the data warehouse, Amazon Redshift on February 2013. From June 5th, it provides add-on for Heroku as well. ...

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TechWave 6/21/2013 [jp]

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• Other investors in the round include CyberAgent Ventures, Nissay Capital, and angel investors from Japan. There are few startups which provide big data related technologies in Japan. Another popular startup in big data founded by Japanese entrepreneurs is Treasure Data which is also located in Silicon Valley.
• http://www.hapyrus.com/