K2view was founded in 2009 by Achi Rotem and Rafi Cohen,[2] both former executives of global
telecommunications technology companies
Amdocs,
Sprint-Nextel, and
TTI,[3] and named after
K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth and one of the hardest to climb on.[4]
During the 2010s, K2view was the data migration platform for several global telecommunications M&A and transformation projects. These included the
Telefónica Argentina transformation by Amdocs in 2012,
AT&T's acquisitions of DIRECTV in 2014,
Iusacell in 2015, and
Nextel Mexico in 2015, the Kcell JSC transformation by
Amdocs in 2015, the
Liberty Global–
Vodafone merger in 2016, and the
Entel Chile transformation by
Ericsson in 2017.[5]
K2view was granted US patents for its Cloud Database Management System (CDBMS) in 2019,[6] and for its Encryption Directed Database Management System and method in 2020.[7][8]
In 2020, the company raised US$28M in first-round financing led by Forestay Capital and with the participation of
Genesis Partners.[3][9][10]
In 2020, it launched its Data Fabric product for real-time data integration, governance, and delivery[11] and announced further operational enhancements in 2021.[12] In 2022, it launched its cloud-based Data Product Platform.[citation needed]
In 2022, K2view was positioned as the Leader in the SPARK Matrix Data Integration Tools.[13]
In 2023, K2view was ranked a Visionary in the
GartnerMagic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools,[14] and a Leader in the SPARK Matrix for Data Masking Tools,[15] and 1 of the 10 Best Data Integration Companies by CIOCoverage.[16]
In 2023, the company released its
AI-powered synthetic data generation service.[17][18][19] Ronen Schwartz was appointed as its new
CEO.
K2view is a privately held company with offices in Yokneam and Raanana in Israel, Plano, TX in the US, Maastricht in the Netherlands, and Düsseldorf in Germany.[21]