Cloudera
US data platform company, privately owned by KKR and CD&R since 2021.
Cloudera, the US data platform owned by KKR and CD&R since 2021, partnered with French AI lab Mistral on 10 September 2026 to run Mistral's models on customers' own enterprise data.
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Cloudera sells a data and AI platform for enterprises, built from the Hadoop-era big-data ecosystem. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has been privately held since October 2021, when private equity firms KKR and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice completed a $5.3bn buyout and took it off the New York Stock Exchange.
Cloudera was founded in 2008 and merged with rival Hortonworks in a $5.2bn combination completed on 3 January 2019, consolidating the two largest Hadoop-era vendors into one company ahead of its later move into cloud and AI data platforms.
Cloudera runs Mistral models on-site
Cloudera and Mistral announced a partnership on 10 September 2026 that runs Mistral's AI models directly on the enterprise data Cloudera's corporate customers already hold on their own servers. The companies framed the deal around sovereign intelligence over enterprise data, though Cloudera itself has been US-owned since KKR and Clayton, Dubilier and Rice took it private in a $5.3bn buyout in October 2021.
The tie-up gives Mistral a route into large regulated companies without building its own enterprise data-integration business, while Cloudera adds a European AI model option to a platform built on the older Hadoop-era big-data stack.
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Written with AI from Lowdown's published reporting. Not individually reviewed by an editor. Updated 22 September 2026. Editorial standards.