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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – DATA AS A SERVICE
- App analytics firm App Annie raises $63M in Series E funding. Link
- Harmony Partners leads $25M Series D funding in PlaceIQ. Link
- Xignite closes $20M Series C funding round led by Quick Corp. Link
- FiscalNote raises $10M Series C to further help organizations analyze government risk. Link
- Weather Decision Technologies raises $4.4M financing. Link
- Data startup Social123 raises $4.25M Series A funding round led by Vocap Investment Partners. Link
- CrunchBase raises $2M Series A2 , launches paid plans for data access. Link
- IBM closes The Weather Co. purchase. Link
- Transunion acquired Colombian Credit Bureau CIFIN. Link
SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND
VENPATH (2015, Brooklyn) – Data marketplace for apps to monetize valuable user data in an anonymous, and privacy compliant manner.
qDatum (2014, Berlin) – Marketplace for industrial data.
LEADER BOARD – DATA AS A SERVICE
Finance – Public Market Investment
Bloomberg LP (1981, NYC) – Privately held financial software, data, and media company. Revenue of the company is estimated to be over $9 billion.
Thomson Reuters (2008, Toronto, IPO) – Delivers financial information – including fundamentals, estimates, primary and secondary research reports through Thomson Reuters Eikon. Formed by merger of Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group in 2008.
Finance – Private Market Investment
Owler (2011, San Mateo, $19M) – Provides competitive intelligence reports on business. Backed by NVP and Trinity Ventures.
PitchBook Data (2008, Seattle, $14M) – Database of global M&A, PE and VC transactions – along with the companies, investors, funds, LPs and executives involved. Backed by Morningstar, Inc, provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
Finance – Credit Information
Equifax (1899, Atlanta, IPO) – Consumer credit reporting agency. Sells consumer credit and insurance reports, analytics products and fraud & identity theft prevention products. Went IPO in 1971.
Experian (1996, Costa Mesa, IPO) – Offers credit services, marketing services, decision analytics and consumer services to businesses and individuals. Collects information on people, businesses, motor vehicles and insurance. Also collects lifestyle data from on-and off-line surveys.
TransUnion (1968, Chicago, IPO) – Provides credit information and information management service to businesses and consumers. Went public in June 2015.
Marketing – Lead Generation
Relationship Science (2010, NYC, $121M) – Its RelSci platform provides database of more than 1 million organizations and the over 3 million decision makers affiliated with them, along with sophisticated analytics tools, reporting dashboards and CRM integrations. Backed by RIT Capital, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, and Hearst Ventures.
InsideView (2005, SF, $89M) – Its platform aggregates customer information from various sources and provides that information through API to sales and marketing team to augment a lead profile. Backed by Big Sky Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, Foundation Capital, Greenhouse Capital Partners, and JDM Capital.
Marketing – Advertising
DataLogix (2002, Westminster, $86.5M, Acq) – Collects and tracks offline purchasing data and purchasing behavior from retailers’ loyalty card programs, retail stores, grocers, and travel agencies. Acquired by Oracle in December 2014.
Factual (2007, LA, $62M) – Provider of location data for mobile advertising, developers and enterprise solutions. Backed by a16z, Altpoint Ventures, Data Collective, Heritage Group, Index Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Gunderson Dettmer, and Idealab.
Public Data
Socrata (2007, Seattle, $54.5M) – Cloud based software company enables users to access government data. Backed by Sapphire Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Frazier Technology Ventures, and In-Q-Tel.
Enigma Technologies (2011, NYC, $35M) – Aggregates, standardises and collates data sets released by federal and state agencies. TC Disrupt NY 2013 winner. Backed by American Express Ventures, Brent Hurley, Comcast Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and Expansion VC.
App Analytics
App Annie (2010, SF, $156M) – Offers app store optimization and market intelligence through various products. Backed by IVP, Sequoia Capital, IDG Capital Partners, Greycroft Partners, EVentures, Infinity Venture Partners, Kii Capital , and Strive Capital.
SimilarWeb (2007, London, $65M) – Collects, measures, analyzes and provides user engagement statistics for website and mobile application. Backed by Naspers and Docor International Management.
Social Data
DataSift (2010, Reading, $64M) – Social data platform. Provides access to real time and historical social data streams. Backed by Upfront Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Cendana Capital, Daher Capital, GRP Partners, Northgate Capital, and The FSE Group.
Crimson Hexagon (2007, Boston, $11M) – Provides access to the social media data for media monitoring and analytics. Backed by Fort Point Angels and angel investors- Charles F Dolan and Oleg Uritsky.
Weather
The Climate Corporation (2006, SF, $109M, Acq) – SaaS based platform for hyper-local weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, and high resolution weather simulations. Backed by Founders Fund, NEA, Index Ventures, Code Advisors, Felicis Ventures, Glynn Capital Management, First Round, Allen & Company, Anthemis Group, Atomico, GV, and Khosla Ventures.
Spire (2012, SF, $69M) – Satellite powered data company. Provides maritime intelligence and weather data. Backed by RRE Ventures, BVP, Jump Capital, Lemnos Labs, Promus Ventures, Emerge, Fresco Capital, Beamonte Investments, Mitsui & Co Global Investments, Grishin Robotics, and Shasta Ventures.
Geospatial
Planet Labs (2010, SF, $183M) – Microsatellites to map the Earth and access to the data. Backed by IFC, Data Collective, and Yuri Milner.
Skybox Imaging (2009, Mountain View, $91M, Acq.) – Provides commercial, high resolution satellite imagery and HD video and analytics services. Acquired by Google in June 2014.
Legal
FiscalNote (2013, Washington, $30M) – Aggregates all the data on legislation and provides summary of the legislation, sentiment analysis to the decision makers. Backed by Visionnaire Ventures, Green Visor Capital, NEA, Perle Ventures, Conversion Capital, SF Capital, 645 Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures, Renren Inc, Middleland Capital and AME Cloud Ventures.
Lex Machina (2009, Menlo Park, $10M, Acq) – Provides Intellectual Property (IP) litigation data and predictive analytics using Big Data to solve patent lawsuits. Acquired by LexisNexis in December 2015.
Traffic
Inrix (2004, Kirkland, $143M) – Provides historical, real time traffic information, traffic forecasts, travel times, traffic count, and roadway incident reports to businesses and individuals. Backed by Intel Capital, KPCB, Porsche Automobil Holding, August Capital, and Bain Capital.
Miovision Technologies (2005, Kitchener, $28.5M) – Provides automated traffic data collection systems and video collection units to record traffic movements in urban and rural settings. Backed by Comerica Bank, FedDev Ontario, Golden Triangle Angel Network, Investeco Capital, MacKinnon Bennett & Co.
Genealogy
Ancestry (1983, Provo, $146M, Acq.) – Provides genealogical and historical records focused on USA and nine other foreign countries, genealogical software, and a wide array of genealogical related services. Acquired by Permira Advisers Ltd in 2012.
MyHeritage (2005, Or Yehuda, $49M) – Aggregates historical records (Birth, marriage, burial, immigration, census, military etc) of people online and provides mobile and software platform for discovering, sharing and preserving family history. Backed by Accel, Index Ventures, BVP, Hasso Plattner Ventures, and Cross Creek Advisors.
Marketplace
Quandl (2011, Toronto, $18M) – Marketplace for financial and economic datasets. Backed by August Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners.
Leader board includes all the top funded, IPO and successfully running bootstrapped companies along with their location, founding year and funding amount.
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