Berlin-based startup data Artisans has been acquired by Chinese multinational conglomerate Alibaba in a €90 million deal. The startup specialises in distributed systems and extensive data streaming services for enterprises.
data Artisans was founded by Aljoscha Krettek, Fabian Hueske, Kostas Tzoumas, Robert Metzger, Stephan Ewen and Ufuk Celebi in 2014. The flagship solutions of the company includes Apache Flink, dA Platform and Application Manager.