Funding: Kitchensurfing, ClearStory Data, and Cloudera can now expand to new market and accelerate plan to go public.

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Kitchensurfing (Launched in 2013, Brooklyn-based global marketplace for chefs), has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Tiger Global Management with participation from previous investors Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. Connectikpeople.co recalls that, this startup provides a platform for chefs, both professional and amateur, to connect with each other and offer their services for in-home meals. Kitchensurfing will use the new funds to grow its team and expand to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Berlin.

ClearStory Data (Founded in 2011, Palo Alto-based data intelligence company),  has raised $21 million in a Series B round led by DAG Ventures with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. With this platform data are analyzed from a number of both public and private sources to uncover trends, patters, and new business opportunities. ClearStory has raised $30 million to date and will use the latest investment to push its new self-service product for simple data analysis.

Cloudera (Founded in 2008, Palo Alto-based Hadoop vendor), has closed a $900 million financing round after announcing today a $740 equity investment from Intel that gives Intel an 18% stake in the company. The round includes the $160 million from T. Rowe Price and Google Ventures announced earlier in March 2014. Henceforth Cloudera is valuated at about $4.1 billion. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding to date and plans to go public later this year.