SpaceCurve, a big data startup specializing in building a platform that stores and analyzes streaming data tied to sensors and other connected devices, laid off a number of staffers on Wednesday, GeekWire has learned.
“There were some personnel changes at SpaceCurve yesterday. Some positions were eliminated and we are in the process of filling new positions that are better aligned with our strategic direction,” the company said.
In addition, CEO John Slitz left the company on May 8. He’s been replaced by founder J. Andrew Rodgers, a former vice president of geospatial systems at Neopolitan.
Backed by Triage Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Divergent Ventures, SpaceCurve raised $10 million in funding last summer. The company moved into a new office in late 2012, and at the time the company said it planned to triple its staff of about a dozen employees.
Slitz is a technology veteran who previously worked at IBM and Novell. In 2012, he told us that SpaceCurve had developed a more flexible and extensible method for storing data.
“We see very high interest and utilization of this in unstructured data scenarios, which we’re calling geospatial sensor and temporal data,” he said.. “We see ourselves as being able to move along three axes simultaneously, and that’s the complexity of the data, the size of the data and to be able to do this processing in real-time.”
