Data science and advanced analytics firm Alteryx Inc. appears to be just scratching the surface of its potential growth, no small feat considering the $4.5 billion valued company’s stock nearly tripled since the start of 2018.
A recent example: fourth-quarter international revenue for the company—arguably OC’s biggest tech success story the past few years—was up 92% year-over-year, to $18 million.
International business now represents about 29% of the company’s total revenue; and overseas customers—and governments—are catching on to the upcoming Big Data revolution, Chief Executive Dean Stoecker told the Business Journal last week.
Stoecker said he recently met with a Middle Eastern government official to discuss some work.
Their takeaway? “Data is the new oil,” he said.
Alteryx is projecting annual sales, now in the $250 million range, to grow to around $350 million in 2019, with much more in store, according to Stoecker.
Celebrity Chef Brian Malarkey is coming to an OC location you might not expect.
The “Top Chef” finalist, who has a collection of restaurants in San Diego, is setting up shop at UCI Research Park, the latest notable name coming to Irvine Co.’s office park near University of California-Irvine (see our eagle-eye graphic, page 31).
Malarkey’s Herb & Ranch will be his sixth restaurant concept, and the first outside San Diego from the Puffer Malarkey Collective, owned and operated by Malarkey and longtime business partner, Christopher Puffer.
Expect a food-hall vibe and a “modern take on the traditional farmhouse,” according to Malarkey, who adds to OC’s collection of Bravo’s “Top Chef” alumni, along with Shirley Chung, formerly with Irvine’s Twenty Eight, and Vaca and Broadway’s Amar Santana, whose Hall: Global Eatery—his take on L.A.’s Eataly—is opening soon at South Coast Plaza.
Malarkey’s not the only restaurant-related biz moving into UCI Research Park. The Insider last week heard that Chipotle Mexican Grill will be opening an R&D/test kitchen type of office there in the upcoming months.
No imminent plans for the burrito maker to move its newly established headquarters, however; the $17 billion valued firm is based at another Irvine Co. office in Newport Center.
Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas, who has kept a low local profile after his legal troubles last year, didn’t miss his own Super Bowl last week.
He joined six schools that brought their oars, and crew teams, to rainy Newport Beach a week ago, at the 4th Annual Henry T. Nicholas III UC Challenge Cup Regatta in Newport Harbor.
University of California-Berkeley’s No. 3 nationally ranked men’s crew team took first place in the men’s final; UCI came in third.
In the women’s final, UCI came in second behind University of California-Santa Barbara.
