Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty has a new job as the CEO at Nirvanix, the Khosla Ventures backed enterprise storage company that she expects to further compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and extend into the business analytics market. Chrapaty initially joined Nirvanix last November as chairwoman of the board when Khosla became lead investor in the […]
Posted on March 26th, 2013 by admin
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Vidyard, a Y Combinator alumnus and enterprise startup that sells a video marketing platform with embedded analytics tools to businesses to help them track and monetise video content, has closed a $6 million Series A led by Canada’s OMERS Ventures. Existing investors iNovia Capital and SoftTech VC also participated, along with a personal investment from Eloqua‘s Jill Rowley. Michael Litt, […]
Posted on March 24th, 2013 by admin
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The Dutch app analytics company Distimo has built a reputation around offering app developers a cross-platform look at how their apps are performing in terms of downloads, revenues and rankings, covering 2.6 billion downloads per quarter, some 15-20% of the overall download market, across 180,000 apps and 10 app stores (including Apple App Store, Google […]
Posted on March 7th, 2013 by admin
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The perception that big data is still incredibly complex to understand is right on the money. There are examples of how the complexity is getting abstracted. But still, even when I talk to data scientists they will say how they are still mastering the tools to simply show data in something besides a spreadsheet. Marck […]
Posted on March 2nd, 2013 by admin
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SiSense won the Audience Award at the Strata Conference this week with its record-breaking claim that it can analyze 10 terabytes of data on a $10,000 Dell server in 10 seconds. Records are meant to be broken, so this is not the first or the last claim of superiority we will see from an ambitious […]
Posted on March 1st, 2013 by admin
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JethroData, an analytics database company based on Hadoop, announced today it has closed a $4.5 million investment round led by Pitango Venture Capital. JethroData, based in Israel, combines the storage scalability of Hadoop with the query performance of a fully indexed, columnar analytic database. A columnar database has historically been useful with data warehouse systems […]
Posted on February 27th, 2013 by admin
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Tech analytics startup Synapsify announced a whopping $600,000 in seed money today from a cluster of investors that includes ICG Ventures, Fortify Ventures, and Middleland Capital. It’s just another part of the ongoing narrative that’s seen the value of data analysis rise over the past several months. After all, last year we found that payment […]
Posted on February 27th, 2013 by admin
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Kera, a Toronto-based startup set to revolutionize the software product demo space with guided tutorials that are interactive and live on a site, instead of in a static video, has just launched new subtitle and captioning features, as well as basic analytics to help websites using its tech track user participation. This iteration on the […]
Posted on February 10th, 2013 by admin
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Host Analytics has raised $17 million in a Series D round to expand its enterprise performance management technology. All of the existing investors participated in the round, including Advanced Technology Ventures, Trident Capital, StarVest Partners and Next World Capital. The funding brings Host Analytics total investment to $40.7 million. Host Analytics gives the finance and […]
Posted on January 12th, 2013 by admin
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Clouds, clouds, everywhere there are clouds. Here’s one more to file in your cloud list from Infochimps that’s all about big data. Infochimps Enterprise Cloud is the kind of service you won’t see any time soon from an enterprise behemoth like Oracle or most of the enterprise big boys. Why? Because it’s self service. You don’t […]
Posted on December 18th, 2012 by admin
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