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May 8, 2019

Tamr Announces Strategic Partnership with In-Q-Tel (IQT)

New agreement will enable U.S. government agencies to solve data unification challenges with innovative machine-learning approach

Cambridge, MA - May 8, 2019 - Tamr, Inc., the leader in enterprise data unification, announced today a strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to the U.S. intelligence and defense agencies that keep our nation safe. The IQT partnership will enable further development and deployment of Tamr Unify, the company’s patented enterprise data unification software system.

Unify was initially conceived by Turing Award winner Dr. Michael Stonebraker and his fellow co-inventors who published their research about the Data Tamr System for tackling large scale data curation challenges in early 2013. Tamr commercialized the research with initial funding from founding investors NEA and GV. Subsequent funding from investment arms of several Tamr customers, including GE, Thomson Reuters, MassMutual, Samsung, and others, is driving rapid growth and enabling Tamr to help large enterprises tackle previously unsolvable data problems.

“Tamr’s use of machine learning to tackle complex data unification challenges represents a new way to solve long-standing problems that traditional rules-based approaches struggle to address effectively,” said A.J. Bertone, Principal, Investments at IQT. “The U.S. intelligence and defense communities arguably face the most complicated and challenging data environments in the world, and we see Tamr as an essential capability to delivering better insights from data while also enabling improved data sharing across the community.”

"Tamr's strategic partnership with IQT is an important milestone in our rapidly growing public sector business,” said Toffer Winslow, chief business officer at Tamr. "When it comes to accelerating digital transformation initiatives, the underlying data challenges faced by the U.S. government are similar to those we have been helping our private sector customers meet for several years. We are proud to support IQT's mission to deploy the latest, most advanced technology to protect and preserve national security."

Tamr was recently recognized for its success working with the Department of Homeland Security. Its platform was the first project under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program to transition to use by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. For more information about Tamr’s success working with U.S. federal government agencies, view this press release issued by Customs & Border Protection in December 2016, and the case study here.  

About Tamr, Inc.

Tamr is the enterprise-scale data unification company trusted by industry leaders like Toyota, Societe Generale, GE, Thomson Reuters, and GSK. The company’s patented software platform uses machine learning supplemented by human expertise to unify and prepare data across myriad silos to deliver previously unavailable business-changing insights. With a co-founding team led by Andy Palmer (founding CEO of Vertica) and Mike Stonebraker (Turing Award winner) and backed by investors including NEA and Google Ventures, Tamr is transforming how companies get value from their data.

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