Microsoft announced today that it has purchased Metanautix, a big-data focused startup that came out of stealth in 2014.<br />The company was backed by $7 million in capital, including cash from well-known venture firm Sequoia.<br />According to TechCrunch’s prior coverage of Metanautix, the company’s external funding came in majority at the time of its founding in 2012.<br />When the company publicly launched, this publication reported that it had “half a dozen beta customers using [its] software.”<br />Despite that, its run as an independent shop is over.<br />Microsoft intends to fold Metanautix into its “data platform, including SQL Server and the Cortana Analytics Suite.”<br />For now, the software giant is publicly light on details past those notes.
