Data.world, a US-based data collaboration software developer and B corporation, has raised $26m in its series D round from a consortium including Prologis Ventures, the corporate venturing unit behind the owner of Walmart’s retail stores.
The latest capital puts the total raised by Data.world at $71.3m.
Venture capital firm Tech Pioneers Fund led the round, which also included Breyer Capital, Alumni Ventures Group, Shasta Ventures, OurCrowd and Workday Ventures as well as angel investors Arthur Patterson, Lincoln Brown and Cotter Cunningham.
Workday Ventures is the corporate venture capital vehicle for enterprise software provider Workday, which had led a $12m round for Data.world in October 2018.
Media company Associated Press and equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd also took part in this C round.
The Associated Press and Prologis, as well as others, such as WPP and Wunderman Thompson Data, use Data.world to unlock their data.
Luke Slotwinski, vice-president of data and analytics at Prologis, said: “We rely on Data.world to help our analysts and business leaders make data-driven decisions about real estate investments and global supply chain opportunities. Having deployed Data.world’s solution, we have seen firsthand its impact as a data multiplier and are pleased to invest in its latest funding round via Prologis Ventures.”
