March Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining Acquisitions and Startups Activity
March 2014 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: Vizify, Echo Nest, Coinalytics, VoltDB, Platfora, Dell buys Statsoft, Vicarious, RelateIQ, Cloudera.
By Gregory Piatetsky, Apr 8, 2014.
Here is the company, startup, and acquisition activity for March 2014 from @kdnuggets. See the latest under hashtag #BigDataCo .
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Here is the company, startup, and acquisition activity for March 2014 from @kdnuggets. See the latest under hashtag #BigDataCo .
- Hubris does not pay: Salorix, Bangalore data analytics startup, said no to Google twice, shuts down now buff.ly/P1PmYB
- Sports is big business, with #BigData - Booz Allen builds a practice around Sports Analytics buff.ly/1gcv0Wi
- Yahoo buys Vizify which visualizes social-media data, Twitter networks buff.ly/1ny3FQs
- Spotify buys Echo Nest, plans to leverage machine learning for music discovery, recommendations buff.ly/1ei7hjj
- Coinalytics a vert young startup developing a scalable #analytics framework for #Bitcoin buff.ly/1ei9gEg
- AnalytixInsight, Canadian data analytics company, to raise up to C$4 M for potential acquisitions buff.ly/1gcniLQ
- Canadian AnalytixInsight to buy OneUp Insights to enhance mobile apps buff.ly/1fTpZND
- Defense operator L-3 Buys Data Tactics Corp, a provider of Big Data Analytics, Cloud mainly to DOD buff.ly/P9ZFtY
- SQream, Israeli startup, provides cost-effective #BigData analytics on very large datasets using GPU buff.ly/1fl1vSl
- Qrious, Telecom NZ spinoff, to offer cloud-based platform for Big Data analytics buff.ly/1iwMRGl
- Reflektion, Retail Analytics firm raises $8 M Series B from Nike, Intel, others buff.ly/1gqE6ep
- 500px, a Toronto/NYC photography community, buys Authintic, an analytics technology company buff.ly/1gtZaRe
- DataRPM, Wash. DC-based Natural Language Business Analytics firm, raises $5.1M buff.ly/1gqzsgh
- Netherlands-based MetrixLab buys majority stake in Social Media Analyst Oxyme buff.ly/1kN1SZd
- Omniata, an analytics and engagement firm, processes 190B game/app events/month, raises $5.2M buff.ly/1gu3IXK
- Synthesio, maker of Social Analytics platform, gets $20M Series B from European equity firm buff.ly/1kVArwg
- DNM Analytics, Irish consulting firm, invests $1.8 M, opens office in Toronto buff.ly/1gDx3z3
- Wise.io gets $2.5M to bring machine learning developed for cosmos to your business buff.ly/1eMdpR0
- VoltDB gets $8M to scale databases, can scale both up (use more of a server) and out (use more servers) buff.ly/1fTITcd
- Platfora, #BigData Analytics firm, raises $38M - turns Hadoop data into dashboards, reports, & insights buff.ly/1mhySZX
- Cloudera, Big Data & Hadoop leader, raises another $160M, reaches $2B valuation buff.ly/1mhzdMa
- Bitvore raises $4.5M, offers "data mining for dummies", finds "If this, then that" rules near real-time buff.ly/1kJ1x7c
- Simply Measured, Social media analytics startup, raises $20M, wants to be Seattle next tech titan buff.ly/NxKOb1
- Genesys buys assets of Solariat, a social customer care and analytics platform firm buff.ly/1r0F4Xe
- ibiboGroup buys Online Bus Tracking and Analytics Startup YourBus In India buff.ly/1in5ZI3
- SimilarWeb, Alexa Competitor, gets new funding, buys Competitive Intelligence Engine Tapdog buff.ly/1jqQvlE
- Vicarious, SF-based startup, developing brain-inspired machine learning, gets $40M from Zuckerberg, Musk buff.ly/1jxNgcd
- Dell buys Statsoft to fill a data-mining void buff.ly/1jxJJui
- RapidMiner, a pioneering predictive #analytics leader, opens new worldwide headquarters in Cambridge, MA buff.ly/1dsjEyR
- Synthesio, New York-based developer of software for analyzing social comments about brands, raises $20M buff.ly/1jnWoV3
- RelateIQ raises $40M, wants to beat Salesforce with better #BigData buff.ly/1g4JHXl
- RelateIQ, relationship management #BigData startup, raises another $40M at valuation $245M buff.ly/1g4GJ4W
- Verizon plans to open new Data Analytics R&D center in Palo Alto, focusing on AI, machine-learning buff.ly/P2hNW3
- Saffron, maker of Natural Intelligence Platform for unifying data in real-time, raised $7M buff.ly/1pBVf9X
- Germin8, Mumbai-based #BigData analytics company, secures $3M from Kalaari Capital buff.ly/1ojlSVD
- Cloudera gets huge $740M investment from Intel, will optimize #Hadoop for Intel chips buff.ly/1ojj22T
See also
- February Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining companies and startups activity
- Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining companies activity in January 2014
- Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining companies activity in December 2013
- Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining companies activity in November
- Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining companies activity in October
- Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining companies activity in September
- Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining companies activity in August
- 2013 Acquisitions in Analytics and Big Data, for February - July 2013.
