Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, raised $5.7 million in Series A funding
led by Andreessen Horowitz with intelligence technology company In-Q-Tel participating. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Scott Weiss is joining the board as part of the investment. Ben Werther, founder and CEO of Platfora, explains that
Hadoop one of […]
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by admin
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Vitrue, a social media marketing company, is rolling out version 3.0 of its social media management platform for brands. New features include localization and enhanced analytics and metrics within one dashboard interface. As we’ve written in the past, Vitrue’s SaaS platform allows brands and marketing agencies to communicate with fans and consumers across Facebook, YouTube […]
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by admin
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Visier, which builds ‘analytic applications for human resources’, has raised $6 million in funding according to an SEC filing published this morning. It’s the startup’s first institutional venture funding round since its inception in 2010. Notably, Visier was co-founded by ex-Business Objectives chief and SAP exec John Schwarz (CEO) and Ryan Wong (CTO), who held […]
Posted on September 2nd, 2011 by admin
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Is IBM making up for lost time? After acquiring crime data intelligence software developer i2 yesterday, Big Blue is announcing another purchase this morning. The company is buying Canadian risk management analytics software developer Algorithmics for $387 million. Algorithmics’ risk analytics software, content and advisory services are used by banks, investment and insurance businesses to […]
Posted on September 1st, 2011 by admin
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We’ve written about Apigee, which offers Web developers and publishers a dashboard for managing both the APIs they provide to others and the ones they consume for themselves. It’s essentially a Google Analytics for APIs. For developers who rely on data from other sites and companies, it monitors how much data they are using (message […]
Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by admin
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IBM has agreed to purchase OpenPages, a privately-held software company based in Waltham, MA that helps companies identify and manage risk and compliance activities across the enterprise through a single management system. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the acquisition is subject to regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. OpenPages has raised funding, although […]
Posted on September 15th, 2010 by admin
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Yottaa, web analytics and performance platform, has raised $4 million in series A funding from General Catalyst Partners, Stata Venture Partners and Cambridge West Ventures. Co-founded by chairman of Nexaweb, Coach Wei, Yottaa offers a free service that monitors and tracks web site performance. The company’s first product, Yottaa Insight, is being released to the […]
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by admin
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Enterprise software giant EMC has acquired data warehousing company Greenplum Software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition is an all-cash transaction. Greenplum, which has raised $61 million in funding, develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. Greenplum has a number of high profile investors, including Sun Microsystems […]
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin
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IBM is jumping into the web analytics software space with the acquisition of San Mateo, CA company Coremetrics. With the purchase, IBM intends to expand its business analytics capabilities with Coremetrics’ cloud-based delivery platform, which enables companies to gain real-time insight into consumer interactions internally through social and other online media networks to increase the […]
Posted on June 15th, 2010 by admin
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Host Analytics, a company that develops performance management software for the enterprise, has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Next World Capital, with existing investors ATV Capital, StarVest Partners and Trident Capital participating in the round. This brings the company’s total funding up to nearly $30 million. The company’s software helps finance […]
Posted on June 9th, 2010 by admin
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