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Although most of the Big Data players are US-based, there are a number of companies in Europe.
@LutzFinger asked me on Twitter about European players in Big Data, and I suggested a couple of European Conferences
- Big Data Europe, (with 2012 locations in Zurich, Vienna, Paris, Frankfurt, London)
- Big Data World Europe, 19 - 20 Sep, 2012, London, UK
@mikaelhuss
made a list of Swedish big data companies
followthedata.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/big-data-companies-in-sweden/
Mikael also commented that although most companies on his list are now based on the US, many (most?) were started in Sweden, including Recorded Future & Spotify.
@BrianAtSumerian
added Sumerian, based in Scotland - Big Data IT analytics across customer base in Europe & US.
www.Sumerian.com
@alex_mikhalev pointed to his company, Shopitize, London, UK
@atveit added @atbrox, www.atbrox.com.
Atbrox is based in Norway, and they specialize in hadoop/big data and search.
I think it will be fair to add telecom giants Ericsson (based in Sweden) and Nokia (based in Finland) to European big data companies.
@aghilmort said: www.datamarket.com is one such company; more data than analytics, IRIC
@HAStark in UK, a good way to find some via @ds_ldn and @londataevent, also check out Meetup.com listings.
See also Quora thread Which are the most exciting Big Data startups in Europe?, which mentions a number of companies, including
- DataSift, based in Reading UK, a programmable data curation platform, dealing with many millions status updates per day and many billions web pages
- new spin-off from ETH Zurich which offers big data analytics with Hadoop and Cassandra: teralytics.ch
@Kasabi, kasabi.com, an online marketplace that brings developers and data publishers together to enable new business models for consumers and producers of data at all scales. Based in Birmingham, UK
@KnutHellan suggested Zedge, @Zedge , described as the largest mobile content discovery platform used by more than 40 million unique users per month, across web, mobile and Android. Norway.
@fhuszar suggested @PeerIndex in London: We analyse social media data to establish people's activity, authority and audience in various topics.
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Stefan G
Datameer is half German with 50%+ engineering in Germany and multiple German VPs. Does this count as european? :)
Jeremiah Dollam
Neo Metrics, from SPAIN, now in Accenture Analytics.