Continues Expansion for the Development of World's First Purpose-built Business Intelligence Appliance
Framingham, Mass.-June 10, 2002-Netezza Corporation today announced the relocation and expansion of its corporate headquarters in Framingham, Mass. Netezza has doubled the Company's headquarters from 13,000 square feet to 26,000 square feet. The Company currently has 70 employees and expects significant growth by the end of 2002. Netezza began operations out of the new facility located at 200 Crossing Boulevard in Framingham, Mass. last month.
"In order to compete in today's economy, companies are demanding faster analysis of growing amounts of data," said Jit Saxena, co-founder and CEO of Netezza. "The new headquarters continues the rapid expansion of our sales, marketing and support—putting Netezza in a great position to seize the market opportunity for a fast, flexible and affordable purpose-built business intelligence appliance."
In May, Netezza announced that Ed Zander, president and COO of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), had joined its Board of Directors. In March, Netezza announced the completion of a $20 million round of financing led by Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures and Battery Ventures, bringing the Company's total funding to more than $28 million.
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza's breakthrough appliance enables agile and affordable business intelligence
(BI) at tera-scale. The company's patent-pending, purpose-built BI appliance
dramatically increases the real-time intelligence that can be obtained from
data and reduces the costs associated with current BI solutions. Founded in
2000 and based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza is led by an experienced management
team from several leading technology companies. The Company is financed by Matrix
Partners, Charles River Ventures and Battery Ventures. For more information
about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.
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