We Empower Teams to Solve Problems Through Data
Our Founding Story
Chief Strategy Officer Joe Hellerstein, Chief Experience Officer Jeffrey Heer and Chief Technical Officer Sean Kandel have a 20-year track record of joint research and development. They first teamed up when Joe was researching data-centric systems at UC Berkeley, while Jeffrey and Sean were developing new tools for data transformation and discovery at Stanford. This work resulted in Data Wrangler, a breakthrough tool for data transformation and discovery, which launched in 2011. A year later, the threesome founded Trifacta to commercialize what had begun as an academic research project.





Our Values
These five principles inform Trifacta’s view of the world and the way we go about our work:
Start with the User
Customer value is our compass for hard decisions, the True North for everything we do. For us, everything starts with the people who know the data best, and the simplicity and power we bring to their work.
Iterate to Excellence
We achieve excellence through small, rapid experiments and real-world metrics. Lightweight iteration allows us to go fast and continually improve in the absence of perfect information. Iteration is our path to risk-taking, exploration and wonder.
Decide and Deliver
Important decisions are never easy—or deferrable. When faced with hard decisions, we efficiently make our call with the data available, rally around the outcome, and deliver what we promise
Always be Learning
We believe the best ideas come from people who are curious enough to ask the next question. As innovators, we always have more to learn—from our customers, from research, from each other, and from the data at hand. Even our products share this commitment to learning.
Be a Multiplier
Great work has outsized impact—far beyond what it would deliver on its own. We multiply our own efforts through teamwork, mentorship and partnership. We multiply the work of our colleagues and customers via products and processes that transfer our superpowers into their hands.
Diversity & Inclusion at Trifacta
At Trifacta, we are committed to cultivating a culture of authenticity, inclusion and connectedness. Our diverse voices and backgrounds enrich the Trifacta community with experience, insights, knowledge, innovation and the collective ability to achieve excellence. We respect and value the unique contributions of each individual, creating a safe space for self-expression across ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, language, education, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, opinions, cultures and beliefs. We know that embracing our differences has a multiplying effect and brings out the best of humanity.
Our History
Founded in 2012 with deep roots in the computer science labs at Stanford and UC Berkeley, Trifacta is the industry pioneer and established leader of the global market for data preparation technology. Our products draw on decades of research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management and machine learning to make the process of refining data faster and more intuitive. Today, more than 50,000 Data Wranglers across 12,000 companies use our solutions. And every independent and analyst ranking has named Trifacta the number one data preparation solution worldwide.
October 21, 2020
Trifacta Partners with Fivetran to Automate and Accelerate ELT Data Pipelines
September 23, 2020
Trifacta Named Leader in G2’s Fall Grid Report for Data Preparation
June 25, 2020
Trifacta Now Available for Direct Purchase and Activation in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
October 1, 2019
General Availability of Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta
September 2019
Trifacta Raises $100 Million to Support Explosive Growth of Data Wrangling for AI and the Cloud
June 2019
Partnering with IBM to Advance Data Preparation for DataOps & AI
June 2019
Trifacta Announces First Cloud Data Preparation Platform for Snowflake
February 2019
Trifacta Triples User Base And More Than Doubles Cloud-Based Revenue
November 2018
Trifacta Launches Serverless Data Preparation on AWS
October 2018
Trifacta Recognized as a Leader by The Forrester Wave
September 2018
Google Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta goes GA
June 2018
Trifacta Named #1 Data Preparation Technology in Ovum Decision Matrix
Feb 2018
Trifacta Named #1 End User Data Preparation Vendor by Dresner for Fourth Year in a Row
Jan 2018
Trifacta Raises $48 Million in Financing to Democratize Data Wrangling
Nov 2017
Trifacta Announces Expanded support for AWS
September 2017
Trifacta and DataRobot Partner to Modernize Data Wrangling and Automate ML
September 2017
Leidos Selects Trifacta as Data Wrangling Solution for CAADS
May 2017
Trifacta Reveals Spring '17 Release of Wrangler Enterprise
May 2017
ESG Lab Affirms Photon is Fastest, Most Efficient Engine for Data Wrangling
March 2017
Trifacta and Google collaborate to create Google Cloud Dataprep
March 2017
Named Leader in the inaugural Forrester Wave™: Data Preparation Tools
March 2017
Earned top ranking in Dresner Advisory Services End User Data Preparation study - Third consecutive year
November 2016
Recognized as an IDC Innovator for Self-Service Data Preparation
November 2016
Wrangler Edge Launches
September 2016
Wrangler Enterprise v4 launches
July 2016
DataIQ recognized RBS with DataIQ Talent Award for Wrangling Customer Service data with Trifacta
May 2016
Recognized as Champion and Top Vendor in 2016 Self-Service Data Preparation by Bloor Research
May 2016
Forbes reports Trifacta as one of the best big data and business analytics companies to work for in 2016
May 2016
Hired first employee in France
April 2016
Selected as the data wrangling solution for Infosys Information Platform (IIP)
March 2016
Photon Compute Framework Launches
March 2016
Earned top ranking in Dresner Advisory Services End User Data Preparation study - Second consecutive year
February 2016
Growth Stage Investment ($35M) Cathay, Infosys, IDGE
January 2016
More than 3,000 companies using Trifacta
December 2015
Expands to Europe, opens offices in London
November 2015
FIrst Hackathon
October 2015
Ventana award Trifacta with Technology Innovation Award
October 2015
Trifacta Wrangler Launches
September 2015
Trifacta v3 launches
August 2015
Opened office in Boston
July 2015
Opened office in Berlin
March 2015
Earned top ranking in first comprehensive End User Data Preparation study by Dresner Advisory Services
February 2015
Free Trial Program launches
January 2015
PepsiCo starts wrangling retail sales data
December 2014
LinkedIn starts wrangling relationship data
October 2014
Trifacta v2 Launches
October 2014
GoPro starts wrangling media data
September 2014
First customer - MarketShare
July 2014
Adam Wilson joins as CEO
June 2014
Teamed up with Hortonworks
May 2014
Series C Funding ($25M) led by Ignition
April 2014
Opened San Francisco Office
April 2014
CIO names Trifacta one of the “10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch”
March 2014
Formed strategic partnership with Cloudera
February 2014
Data Transformation Platform 1.0 launches
December 2013
Series B Funding ($12M) led by Greylock
April 2013
Alpha Release of Trifacta Data Transformation
December 2012
Hired our first intern
October 2012
Series A Funding ($4.3M) led by Accel
September 2012
Hired first employee
April 2012
Trifacta Founded by Joe Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer, and Sean Kandel
May 2011
Wrangler research paper published
February 2011
Launch Data Wrangler Alpha
May 2000