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MapR Technologies

Big data / enterprise softwareUSA
New to Unitard
💀 Dead / Bankrupt
Peak $1 BillionToday
~-95%
from peak
  1. 🦄
    Became a unicorn
    2016
  2. 📈
    Peak valuation
    $1 Billion ’16
  3. 💔
    Became a Unitard
    2019
  4. 💸
    Last valuation
    Wiped out
Capital raised
$280M
Total raised
$76.4K/day
Raised per day

Total raised averaged per day over approximately 10.0 years from founding to bankruptcy or shutdown. This is not measured cash burn. Methodology

Funding: Wikipedia/Crunchbase
Current status
Wound down in 2019 after failing to raise; assets sold to HPE in a distressed deal

The rise & fall

6 moments · 2009–2019

The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.

2009
Founded in the Hadoop gold rush
An enterprise-grade take on big data, back when Hadoop was the future.
Wikipedia
2016
The peak: past $1B on Australia's Future Fund$1B
A round led by the sovereign fund with CapitalG and Qualcomm Ventures caps roughly $280M raised.
Global Venturing
2018–19
The Hadoop market caves in
The wave MapR rode breaks, and the cash runs low with it.
SiliconANGLE
From the inside · Glassdoor reviews, 2018–19
Glassdoor reviewers saw the end coming more than a year out: they praised the technology while describing an executive suite swept out en masse in early 2018, deep cuts to the sales team, ever-shifting messaging — and recruits pitched on a perpetually imminent IPO whose equity insiders considered worthless.
May 2019
122 layoffs and a shutdown warning
MapR lays off 122 people including its CEO and warns it may have to shut down after funding falls through.
SiliconANGLE
Aug 2019
Assets to HPE — joins the Unitard Club 💔
HPE picks up the technology in a distressed deal, terms undisclosed; the $1B company winds down.
Global Venturing
$1Bof peak value erased · 10 years

💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.

How it happened

MapR Technologies was a prominent Hadoop-era big-data company that raised about $280M and passed a $1B valuation in a 2016 round led by Australia's Future Fund with CapitalG and Qualcomm Ventures.

As the Hadoop market collapsed it ran out of cash: it warned of a shutdown in May 2019 after laying off 122 staff including its CEO, and HPE bought its assets that August in a distressed deal.

Source: Global Venturing / SiliconANGLE (Hadoop big-data vendor; raised ~$280M; valued more than $1B in a 2016 round led by Future Fund with CapitalG and Qualcomm Ventures; laid off staff incl. CEO and planned wind-down May 2019; HPE acquired its assets Aug 2019 in a distressed deal, terms undisclosed)

Where they went

  • John Schroeder
    Founder, Chairman & CEO
    Director at RapidFire AI
    LinkedIn ↗

Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-19. See our methodology.

Disclosed investors (10)

Historical funding participation; lists may be incomplete and do not establish current ownership or investor losses.

* Lead in a funding round · Crunchbase ↗ · 2026-10-13 · Methodology · Leaderboard

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