August 2014 Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining Acquisitions and Startups Activity
August 2014 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: Infosys, Enlitic, Guavus, Google buys Jetpac, Algorithmia, MedAssets buys Sq2, Yahoo buys Zofari, Adatao.
By Gregory Piatetsky, Sep 3, 2014.
Here is the company, startup, and acquisition activity for August 2014 from @kdnuggets. See the latest under hashtag #BigDataCo.
Here are my tweets
Here are previous months activities:
Here is the company, startup, and acquisition activity for August 2014 from @kdnuggets. See the latest under hashtag #BigDataCo.
Here are my tweets
- Aug 31: Equifax to buy remaining 49% in Bangalore data analytics firm NettPositive #BigDataCo buff.ly/1wU7NCr
- Aug 31: Thiel Fellow skips college, raises $1.5 M for Social Commerce App Strut #BigDataCo buff.ly/VXPF9S
- Aug 30: Berg, a Boston startup, uses AI and #BigData to study healthy tissues, to find potential drug compounds #BigDataCo buff.ly/1pVuXn8
- Aug 29: Vishal Sikka hunting for ideas as Infosys looks to put $100 M fund to incubate startups to work #BigDataCo shrd.by/dPQQox
- Aug 28: Glassbeam, IoT analytics platform, raises $2M to build its Internet of Things platform #BigDataCo buff.ly/1wJHRcw
- Aug 28: Joola, a startup offering an advanced platform where you can share real-time analytics with your users #BigDataCo buff.ly/1qCpSzR
- Aug 26: Zillabyte, former "Pandora for sales leads", relaunches to be a "cloud platform for #BigData analysis #BigDataCo buff.ly/1mLWceR
- Aug 25: Enlitic, startup from former Kaggle prez Jeremy Howard, to help doctors analyze images with #DeepLearning #BigDataCo buff.ly/1px4dcs
- Aug 24: Enlitic, new startup from Jeremy Howard, former Kaggle prez, to use machine learning for medical diagnoses #BigDataCo buff.ly/1qbTJz0
- Aug 23: Cyient, Hyderabad-based IT firm, buys 51% stake in data analytics startup Invati Insights #BigDataCo buff.ly/1AHxR28
- Aug 23: Guavus, San Mateo, CA #BigData analytics firm offering solutions for operational intelligence, raises $20M #BigDataCo buff.ly/1p2gdmW
- Aug 23: Nervana, San Diego startup with hot #DeepLearning technology, raises $3.3M in 2nd round this year #BigDataCo buff.ly/1mzBEpU
- Aug 23: Enlighted, Sunnyvale environmental data analytics startup, raised $20 M from top VCs #BigDataCo buff.ly/1v8HG99
- Aug 22: E15, new analytics company in Chicago launched by Levy Restaurants #BigDataCo buff.ly/1vt84rC
- Aug 21: Vantage Analytics, a Toronto startup, raised $1.1M for analytics modules for an e-commerce platform #BigDataCo buff.ly/VIyDMo
- Aug 20: evolve24 (St. Louis) and Sherpa Analytics merge, creating a #BigData Analytics firm, keep evolve24 name #BigDataCo buff.ly/1li9xjV
- Aug 20: Google buys city guide creator Jetpac, which has image recognition, #DeepLearning technology for maps #BigDataCo buff.ly/1z29Akx
- Aug 20: Prayas Analytics, retail analytics startup from Wharton students, gets $20K from Dorm Room Fund #BigDataCo buff.ly/1naPNtv
- Aug 19: Algorithmia, Seattle startup, raises $2.4M from @Etzioni, others to create marketplace for algorithms #BigDataCo buff.ly/1tjhuFz
- Aug 19: MedAssets, GA-based firm, buys Sq2, Skokie-IL health care analytics firm for $142M #BigDataCo buff.ly/1uSWCb4
- Aug 18: Empirix buys up telco #BigData analytics provider Verios #BigDataCo buff.ly/1p6VMV0
- Aug 18: Coinbase buys #bitcoin blockchain explorer firm Blockr.io #BigDataCo buff.ly/1n2CP0W
- Aug 15: How SwiftKey built the world's smartest keyboard and soared to the top of the app economy #BigDataCo buff.ly/1yGbRBQ
- Aug 14: iQU, Netherlands marketing firm, buys Munich-based Cross-Platform Game Analytics firm HoneyTracks #BigDataCo buff.ly/1l7qVb0
- Aug 14: Yahoo bought Zofari, a "Pandora for Places", a machine-learning powered app for local recommendations #BigDataCo buff.ly/1oxYjIF
- Aug 13: Loyalty management firm Aimia to buy stake in Indian 2nd largest analytics firm Fractal Analytics #BigDataCo buff.ly/Y5xSiu
- Aug 13: Telstra pays $270M for video streaming, analytics platform Ooyala which will become a subsidiary #BigDataCo buff.ly/1pOg4RSo
- Aug 13: Frost Data Capital has a novel recipe for a #BigData Startup Factory #BigDataCo buff.ly/Y5xa4L
- Aug 13: EverString, a #BigData startup that finds sales leads/clients w. predictive analytics, raised $12M Ser. A #BigDataCo buff.ly/1sZAA3o
- Aug 13: Viv Labs, San Jose startup from Siri inventors, builds a radical #AI system that does anything you ask #BigDataCo buff.ly/Vmp9X5
- Aug 12: Splice Machine, San Francisco #SQL on #Hadoop startup, adds $3M in Series B #BigDataCo buff.ly/1oHkbLD
- Aug 11: GE partners with Pivotal, launches data lake service to streamline industry #BigData #BigDataCo buff.ly/VgzeF1
- Aug 11: Taxi Stockholm brilliantly uses #BigData and taxi trails to find & show Stockholm "hot spots" #BigDataCo buff.ly/1mDy2TD
- Aug 11: SmartNews, Japanese Twitter-Mining news app, raised $36 M from Atomico and Gree #BigDataCo buff.ly/1kXk9EH
- Aug 11: Guesswork launched service to predict consumer behavior with #MachineLearning using Google Prediction API #BigDataCo buff.ly/1mBVQai
- Aug 10: Gridcraft, a Boulder, CO startup, raises $2.2M to help analyze #BigData with a spreadsheet-like interface #BigDataCo buff.ly/1A5kRDe
- Aug 8: Tapjoy, a mobile ad-tech platform, buys Korean firm 5Rocks, a platform for customer LTV analytics #BigDataCo buff.ly/1ox8yH5
- Aug 8: Indus Insights - Gurgaon, India firm - raises Series A funds to expand data scientist team, drive sales #BigDataCo buff.ly/V4wc6N
- Aug 8: Metanautix, Palo Alto startup, comes out of stealth, raises $7M for connecting #BigData silos with #SQL #BigDataCo buff.ly/1kOMOM7
- Aug 7: Google buys Emu, an IM client/app with Siri-Like Intelligence, virtual assistant abilities #BigDataCo buff.ly/1ouGN1X
- Aug 7: Adatao raises $13M Series A for #BigData 2.0, offers pInsights "beauty layer" & pAnalytics "power layer" #BigDataCo buff.ly/1urUjJ5
- Aug 4: Palantir acquired Propeller, a startup offering tools for building native mobile apps #BigDataCo buff.ly/1s6PcMS
- Aug 4: Social Cops, Indian startup which sources data from phones, raised $320K seed funding from 500 Startups #BigDataCo buff.ly/1omzSrx
- Aug 1: Scaled Inference, a stealth start-up, wants to be the Google Brain for all, gets backing from Tencent #BigDataCo buff.ly/1rT1EzV
Here are previous months activities:
- July Analytics, Big Data, Data Science acquisitions and startups activity
- June Analytics, Big Data, Data Science acquisitions and startups activity
- May Analytics, Big Data, Data Science acquisitions and startups activity
- April Analytics, Big Data, Data Science acquisitions and startups activity
- March Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining acquisitions and startups activity
- 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
