For DataHero’s “Big Data Star” Chris Neumann, Vancouver is a Familiar Place
For many people home is simply where the heart is. For DataHero cofounder and CEO Chris Neumann, even with a Palo Alto zip…
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Is Big Data A ‘Big Hype’ Or a Really Big Deal?
According to Gartner’s 2013 hype cycle for emerging technologies, big data resides almost at the summit of “the peak of…
Toronto’s Vantage Analytics Wants People to Understand Data Without Actually Being Analysts
Vantage Analytics wants to help business managers compete on analytics without actually being professional data geeks. It seems…
SumAll adds $6M, Brings Funding Total to $7.5M for SMB Analytics Platform
BetaKit covered NYC-based data analytics startup SumAll when the company launched its SumAll Traffic tool and more recently…
Continuuity Adds $10M Series A to Help Developers Build Big Data Apps
Today Palo Alto, CA-based Continuuity, a big data application platform, announced the closing of a $10 million Series A funding…
SumAll Adds Instagram to Analytics Dashboard to Tie ROI to Brand Photos
New York-based SumAll, who BetaKit covered in September when it launched its SumAll Traffic analytics dashboard, announced…
DataStax Adds $25M in Series C Funding to Scale Big Data Platform
Today San Mateo, CA-based big data company DataStax announced it has raised $25 million in C round of funding led by Meritech…
Geckoboard Opens Integrations to Help Companies See Data in One Dashboard
London-based business dashboard Geckoboard today announced updates to its platform, which allows companies to pull in data…
AlpineMetrics Turns Big Data Into an Intelligent Business Consultant
Startup AlpineMetrics debuted in beta this week, introducing its new business intelligence solution aimed at helping staff…
Mover Wants to Replace Hard Drive Delivery for Big Data Cloud Migration
If you want to move a lot of data from one cloud service to another, or from a local server to the cloud, often the fastest,…
Sqrrl Closes $2M in Funding, Moves to Cambridge to Grow Big Data Solution
Sqrrl announced today that it has raised $2 million in funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners for its new scalable…
Hubba Takes a Big Data Approach to Product Management for Brands, Retailers
Big data analytics can help companies understand everything from their inventory needs to customer spending patterns, all with…
Junar Launches With $1.2M in Funding to Make Open Data Easy
Junar, a Chile-founded startup which made the move to Palo Alto last year, today announced a $1.2 million round of initial…
Recorded Future Raises $12M to Help Predict What’s Next
In the TV action drama Person of Interest, one of the main characters designs a sophisticated data analysis computer system…
Surveying the Crop of User Feedback Startups
For companies, getting user feedback that reveals meaningful insight about user or customer sentiment has never been easy,…