2013 headquarters san francisco palo alto california key people rob mee ceo paul maritz chairman parent dell technologies website www.pivotal.io pivotal software inc. pivotal is a software and services company based in san francisco and palo alto california with several other offices . divisions include pivotal labs for consulting services the pivotal cloud foundry development group a group developing some products for the big data market . history edit pivotal office in toronto pivotal software was formed in 2012 after spinning out of emc corporation and vmware which was majority owned by emc . 1 the name came from the pivotal labs llc which had been acquired by emc and briefly used the name gopivotal incorporated . 2 on april 24 2013 the organization announced a 105 million investment from general electric for 10 % equity and pivotal one including cloud foundry for cloud computing . 3 4 paul maritz became pivotal s chief executive immediately after the spin out . 4 maritz had joined emc in february 2008 when pi corporation a company he co founded was acquired and was previously the ceo of vmware . 5 6 the greenplum database acquired by emc in 2010 formed the basis of a division selling software for the big data market . 7 in march 2013 a distribution of apache hadoop called pivotal hd was announced including a version of the greenplum software for it called hawq . 8 paul maritz became pivotal s chairman and rob mee founder of pivotal labs became chief executive officer of pivotal software on august 18 2015 . in may 2016 a 253 million round of investment was announced including microsoft and ford . 9 emc also converted 400 million of debt into equity at that time . 10 11 wikimedia commons has media related to pivotal software . references edit om malik and stacey higginbotham july 16 2012 . vmware plans cloud spin out to keep up with microsoft amazon and google . gigaom . retrieved august 31 2016 . cs1 maint uses authors parameter link notice of exempt offering of securities . united states securities and exchange commission . april 15 2013 . retrieved august 31 2016 . ge joins emc and vmware in a joint venture to challenge software megavendors in the cloud . press release . april 24 2013 . retrieved august 31 2016 . a b quentin hardy april 24 2013 . pivotal s audacious plan . new york times bits . retrieved august 31 2016 . emc to acquire pi corporation developer of personal information management technology . press release . emc . february 21 2008 . retrieved october 3 2013 . executive team . company web site . pivotal . archived from the original on november 18 2013 . retrieved august 31 2016 . jack clark april 24 2013 . general electric pours 105 meeelion into pivotal initiative skunkworks lab for the industrial internet . the register . retrieved august 31 2016 . timothy prickett morgan july 17 2013 . pivotal ships eponymous hadoop distro to the masses an inquisitive hawq rides the big data elephant . the register . retrieved august 31 2016 . arik hesselhdahl may 5 2016 . ford and microsoft lead 253 million investment in emc owned pivotal . recode . retrieved august 12 2016 . pivotal s funding picture just got a lot more interesting emc s debt conversion should grease the skids for a pivotal ipo . fortune . may 9 2016 . retrieved august 31 2016 . notice of exempt offering of securities . united states securities and exchange commission . may 6 2016 . retrieved august 31 2016 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pivotal software & oldid 738916457 categories software companies based in californiahidden categories cs1 maint uses authors parametercommons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages edit links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 19 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view