Mortar Data, a US-based company devoted to making software Hadoop easier to use, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a consortium including Matt Turck, managing director of Bloomberg Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous financial data and information provider.
The other investors were Chris Lynch, the former chief executive of Vertica who left his job at Hewlett-Packard last month, TechStars, a start-up accelerator, venture capital firms Atlas Ventures, Genacast Ventures and Great Oaks Ventures as well as Brightcove founder Bob Mason.