Maana is a privately held, US-based, big data analytics software company with offices in Palo Alto, California, Bellevue, Washington and Houston, Texas. Its founders were schooled at the University of Oxford, the University of Texas at Austin and Nottingham University, thus bringing entrepreneurial and computer research credentials. The company's investors include Chevron Technology Ventures, General Electric Ventures, Intel Capital, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures and Frost Data Capital.