In this episode of Cloud Frontier, we chat with Burak Karakan, co-founder of Bruin. Burak shares his journey from working at HelloFresh to launching Bruin, a platform that unifies data ingestion, transformation, quality, and governance. He explains how they identified an opportunity in the chaos of data infrastructure, leading to Bruin's creation. Burak also discusses his experience transitioning from corporate comfort to startup challenges, fundraising lessons, and the importance of selecting the right investors. We also touch on the exciting developments in open-source data storage formats, which are enabling greater data freedom.

In this episode of Cloud Frontier, Rob and Burak discuss:

• The creation of Bruin, an end-to-end data platform for simplifying data infrastructure management
• Burak’s journey from HelloFresh to becoming a full-time startup founder
• Lessons from fundraising, including how to choose the right investors and build lasting partnerships
• Challenges with the modern data stack and how Bruin addresses them
• The potential impact of open-source data storage formats, like Apache Iceberg, on the data landscape

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You can find our host Rob Pankow on LinkedIn at /robertpankow and Burak Karakan on LinkedIn at /burakkarakan. Visit Bruin's website to know more: https://getbruin.com/.

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