By Gregory Piatetsky, Sep 4, 2013.

From @kdnuggets Tweets:

• Idibon, ambitious stealth-mode startup, secured $1.4M to build a tool to mine text, sentiment in world languages bit.ly/19r6iQS
• Oren @Etzioni: the only risk is not doing a start-up, not taking a chance. Start-up is not a risk, it is adventure #kdd2013
• KDD-2013 Panel: Data Scientists Guide to Making Money from Start-ups bit.ly/14PHldh
• KXEN InfiniteInsight analytics platform wins Ventana Research Technology Innovation Award for Marketing Excellence bit.ly/14PmFlu
• Amazing! uBeam, a startup from a 21-year astrobiologist, backed by Peter Thiel, for wireless charging by sound nyti.ms/1cTSzU6
• DataWeek 2013 Innovator Award Winners: Ayasdi - Big Data Technology, Gravity: Data Science, Exversion: Open Data bit.ly/16UBhRz
• Software AG buys JackBe for its Presto mashup software, real-time analytics bit.ly/1dgyZkR
• Birst raises $38M E round to expand Cloud-based Business Intelligence & #BigData solutions tcrn.ch/14t0XnU
• Mumbai-based Social media marketing startup SocioSquare raises $325K in angel funding bit.ly/18Vvf2m
• Singapore-Based Big Data Analytics firm Antuit raises $3M in initial investment, buys NYC-based Marketwell bit.ly/18Vvhr9
• RichRelevance buys Precog to add #BigData Analytics Engine to e-commerce Personalization Platform tcrn.ch/1caH8Dy
• Parse.ly raises $5M for Predictive Analytics & NLP platform that finds semantic relationships in data #BigDataC tcrn.ch/1dQPUby
• Big Data startup Roambi offers easy to use interactive mobile visualizations #BigDataC bit.ly/1fmuXTP
• Discover 15 French & US #BigData startups and Big Data initiative, meet potential partners - Cambridge MA, Sep 16 bit.ly/193kBH3
• JethroData is a #BigData startup, providing analytic database technology that runs on Hadoop bit.ly/1c8EJwK
• UK #BigData startup ERN bolsters analytics, buys Elucidata, Inspired Analytics tcrn.ch/1552Wdq
• NICE Systems to buy Causata, provider of Hadoop/Hbase - based Customer Experience Management (CXM) software bit.ly/18esWqR
• Location Analytics is Hot! Placed startup now measures 100M+ places daily tcrn.ch/19aIRrs
• Portland, OR Business analytics startup Lytics raises $2.2M bit.ly/166mDbe
• Ayasdi, Palo-Alto-based startup combines topological analysis with machine learning to find insights in #BigData. ubm.io/13mNj56
• Twitter buys social media, TV analytics firm Trendrr because of its focus on real-time data #BigDataC cnet.co/176hOcC

Here are earlier 2013 Acquisitions in Analytics and Big Data (February - July 2013).