About Us It all started with a pair of elementary school classmates from Argentina.

Let us explain:

Javier Pajaro was working at an innovative firm and needed to access data that should have been publicly available and easy to use for reports. He soon realized that only a small subset of the data that he needed was available and that it was not in a format that he could programmatically use, even though the organization who published it really wanted people like him to be able to use it. That frustrated Javi (as he is known at Junar).

He knew that a simple to use, web-based data publishing system would enable the organization to free and maintain their open data so others could collaborate with them and benefit from it. He quickly developed a prototype, shared it with a few organizations, and they loved it. He also showed it to his longtime friend (and elementary school classmate - see the connection) Diego May, who was excited about the business of helping to democratize data. And so Junar was born.

Junar (which fittingly means to view and to know) is already the engine behind Open Data initiatives for some of the world’s leading organizations and makes data available to millions of end users today. As we rapidly move to a society dominated by information and services, Junar is busy powering that transformation and the Data Economy.

"By 2020, there will be 35 zettabytes of information in the digital universe" (one zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes)

- IDC, Leading industry analyst firm

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Diego May CEO and Co-founder
Javier Pájaro CTO and Co-founder
Ignacio Sans UI Designer and Front-end Developer
Matías Menafra Ninja Developer
Joaquín Núñez Software Artisan
Marco Salgado Tech lead / Biz dev
Alvaro Encina Ops and Data Analyst
Adrían Salgado Front-end Developer
John Tran Sr. Marketing Manager
María Elena Villaruel Administrative