Source article: Business Wire
日本語訳
QueryPieを提供するCHEQUERは、Atinum InvestmentとMurex Partnersが主導する1,775万米ドルのシリーズシード資金調達を完了したと発表しました。KB Investment、Mirae Asset Venture Investment、Mirae Asset Capital、Primer Sazze Partnersも新たに参加し、累計調達額は2,007万米ドルに達しました。
今回の資金は、企業がグローバルなプライバシー規制に対応しながら、データガバナンス、分析、コンプライアンスを単一の統合プラットフォームで扱えるようにするための事業拡大と、製品開発の加速に充てられます。
QueryPieは、クラウドおよびオンプレミス環境にまたがるデータアクセスとセキュリティポリシーを統合管理し、データ利用者が安全に分析・照会・アクセスできる仕組みを提供しています。多様なデータソースの増加と各国のプライバシー規制強化が、同社の成長を後押ししていると記事は説明しています。
Brant Hwang氏は、従来型のデータガバナンスやデータサイロではもはや十分ではなく、QueryPieは企業がデータ資源を安全に保護しながらより多くのデータ利用者に権限を付与できる単一基盤を実現すると述べています。
原文（英語）
Original title: QueryPie Closes USD 17.75 Million in Oversubscribed Preferred Series Seed Round Co-Led by Atinum Investment and Murex Partners
The investment validates a significant market opportunity in modern data governance, allowing QueryPie to meet rising market demand and support rapid customer growth.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — CHEQUER, a San Jose-based provider of the QueryPie modern data governance platform, announced that it had closed a USD 17.75 million Preferred Series Seed funding round co-led by Atinum Investment and Murex Partners. KB Investment, Mirae Asset Venture Investment and Mirae Asset Capital, and Primer Sazze Partners also joined its existing investors, Kakao Investment and Y-Combinator.
The new funding will support QueryPie’s continued expansion in enabling businesses to leverage a single, holistic platform for managing data governance, analytics, and compliance for all data types while complying with global privacy regulations, as well as scaling further product development. CHEQUER’s total funding round has now reached USD 20.07 million. Cheuk Kim, Managing Partner at Atinum Investment, and Ohsang Kwon, Co-founder and Partner at Primer Sazze Partners will also serve on the board.
The QueryPie platform allows data users to analyze, query, and access enterprise data while ensuring that roles, responsibilities, and accountability are clearly defined, managed, and audited via security policies across cloud and on-premise data architectures. The platform enables data-driven enterprises to realize significant benefits in increasing revenues and reducing costs through streamlined data management and governance workflows. Growing data sources in cloud environments and increasingly stringent privacy laws have contributed to the company’s growth.
The QueryPie team comprises highly skilled engineers and seasoned startup growth professionals from Kakao, Naver, and SBI. Since its official product launch in March 2020, it has grown by more than 40% per month, innovating data management and governance tasks for organizations ranging from traditional enterprises to cloud-native companies, including unicorn startups such as Yanolja, Kakao Pay, Kakao Enterprise, Karrot Market, HyperConnect, and Ground X. The company is headquartered in the United States and has a subsidiary in Seoul, Korea.
“We’re excited to lead this round of investments after observing an urgent need among businesses for more secure data access control and governance as they transition to multi-cloud architectures to improve data management and utilization. As the number of data-driven organizations continues to expand on the cloud, we expect this sector to grow exponentially as more modern data governance becomes the bedrock of the world of enterprise data. QueryPie is a best-in-class platform that integrates all major cloud platforms and data sources, in addition to those offered by competitors,” said Cheuk Kim, Managing Partner at Atinum Investment.
“Above all, we’re humbled to be trusted by the industry’s best institutions, and we’re happy to be endowed with their investment,” said QueryPie CEO Brant Hwang. “Traditional data governance and data silos are no longer viable options. QueryPie ensures that businesses secure their data resources and grants privileged access to more data personas, enabling a single version of the truth across the enterprise. Our goal is to help more businesses maximize the value of their data and contribute to their growth.”
About QueryPie
QueryPie is an advanced data governance solution developed by CHEQUER that simplifies data access and manages scattered data sources and data protection policies. QueryPie delivers visibility and control over cloud applications, data, and users across multiple databases and cloud data platforms, including relational databases, NoSQL databases, data warehouses, and the Hadoop ecosystem. The solution automatically makes enterprise data available for self-service analytics without requiring code changes to applications, databases, or architectures, while helping enterprises comply with security standards and privacy regulations such as PCI-DSS, PIPA, GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.