Sunday December 22, 2024

SumAll Raises Another $4M To Help Businesses Understand Their Data

Business analytics company SumAll is announcing that it has raised $4 million in new funding from existing investors Battery Ventures and Wellington Partners, as well as an additional $1 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. The company allows customers to connect a wide range of services, including social networks like Facebook and Twitter, email marketing […]

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ClearDATA Lands $14M To Give The Healthcare Industry A HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Alternative To AWS And Rackspace

As Big Data and analytics are take hold in nearly every industry, a whole new set of demands and problems face IT teams within organizations. This is especially true among healthcare companies, which are now struggling in masse to upgrade archaic infrastructure and technology and reduce costs both for the sake of their businesses and […]

Monetate Raises $8M To Help Companies Target Online Customers

Monetate has raised $8 million for its platform that helps companies such as Best Buy increase their sales through the analysis of information from multiple sources such as interactions with the web site, email data and search engine information. The Series C round brings the company’s total funding to $43 million. Existing investors OpenView Venture Partners, Common Fund and Lead […]

Ford: MICROSOFT isn’t stealing Mulally — JPMORGAN muffs encryption — BofA: BITCOIN ‘major’ — RASH of billion-dollar startups — PALANTIR valued at $9B

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Box Confirms It Raised $100M To Help Accelerate Global Expansion

The mega rounds continue to drop, with enterprise-facing cloud storage company Box confirming that it has raised $100 million in fresh outside funds. TechCrunch reported and confirmed the funding in late November, meaning that Box took its time in disclosing the size of its new cash influx. The round values Box in the neighborhood of $2 […]

SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg On Swinging Into London To Build Out A Global Enterprise Business

At 14 years old, SurveyMonkey, the online feedback and survey company, is “not quite a startup anymore,” says its CEO David Goldberg. But the last year has marked what you might call a second childhood of sorts for the Silicon Valley company: a large raise of funds (some $850 million, all secondary); a launch of […]

MICROSOFT fights back against gov’t snooping — CHINA says yes to APPLE, no to BITCOIN — NET NEUTRALITY takes another hit — AMAZON previews virtual Office for iPad

December 5, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Big Data Company Palantir Is Raising $58M At A Hefty $9B Valuation

Palantir, the big data company that secured clients like the NSA, the FBI and the CIA early on, is topping up its recent September funding round with a 50 percent bump in valuation. The company is now valued at $9 billion, according to sources familiar with the deal. An SEC filing released today showed that […]

Trifacta Raises $12M For Platform That Uses Human And Machine Interactions To Prepare Data For Analysis

Trifacta, a platform to prepare data for analysis, has closed a $12 million Series B round led by Greylock Partners and Accel Partners. The company has now raised a total of $16.3 million. In an email interview, CEO and Co-Founder Joe Hellerstein said the company’s platform is designed for business analysts and data scientists to explore, manipulate and cleanse data for the […]