InsightSquared, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company that is taking on Microsoft's Excel, just scored $8 million in second round funding.
Twitter has acquired data visualization startup Lucky Sort, possibly to bolster its ad sales and reporting tools.
“Our mission, to help people everywhere see and understand data, isn’t all that different from Google’s,” Christian Chabot, the company’s cofounder and chief executive, told VentureBeat.
Big data may be cool, but its not pretty. Visual.ly, a startup focused on data visualizations and infographics, has raised a new $2 million round of funding, the company has confirmed to VentureBeat today.
Guest Post Going beyond static infographics, "webgraphics" -- to coin a term -- offer greater interactivity, storytelling possibilities, and marketing opportunities.
ClearStory, the much-hyped data analytics startup, has pulled in $9 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures.
These days, it takes guts for a company to make a strategic decision without referring to the numbers. However, accessing the data is easier said than done.
For Pentaho, the startup that claims to be the first business intelligence (BI) provider to shift its focus to "big data", the bet is paying off.
Roambi, the Sequoia-Capital-backed data visualization app from MeLLmo, has seen considerable growth this year with new customer wins and adoption by 20 percent of the Fortune 50, the company announced Tuesday.
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Bright.com, the recently-launched startup with a scientific method to match you with a dream job, has found something cool to do with its backlog of employment data.
Intoxicating indie rock band The xx and Microsoft have released a brilliant visualization app that tracks how a stream of the band's new album spread virally around the world.
Everybody wants big data, but nobody wants to muck around in SQL queries. And while Hadoop is a hot topic, most people have no clue what it really does, let alone have the skill to use it.
That’s where business …
Data visualization for huge sets of information can be hard, man. Datahero wants to make it easy, and apparently, some pretty interesting investors do, too.
The product is still in private testing stages, but it’s impressed (to the tune of …
Business intelligence app-maker MeLLmo, the creator of ultra-hot business iPad app Roambi, has launched a new app-building platform called ESX that will let other companies tap Roambi’s ability to make data gorgeous and accessible.
Roambi ESX will give companies that …
Analyzing big data doesn’t have to be an expensive and drawn out affair. A company called Precog has launched a simple, drop-in app developers can use to collect and analyze vast amounts of data for product features like recommendations, reporting, …
DataSift, a social data platform that extracts large amounts of data from a number of online sources, raised $7.2 million in a first round of funding from existing investors IA Ventures and GRP Partners, the company announced today. The funding …
Digesting big data can be migraine-inducing. Knoema wants to make it as easy as scanning a graph.
“With data, we want to do what YouTube did for video,” Vladimir Bougay, founder and CTO of startup Knoema, told VentureBeat in a …
MetaLayer, a startup that helps you make visualizations from complex sets of data, has launched a new data community for people to share visualizations they’ve made with its service.
“We want to do to data analysis what Apple has done …
Twitter today released a new video visualizing all the tweets that mention the momentous occasion that took place last Friday: 11:11:11 on 11/11/11.
“Each ’1′ is a location that moves with the conversation on Twitter. Their scale varies depending on …
