Traditionally, companies have gathered data from a variety of sources, then used spreadsheets and dashboards to try and make sense of it all. Outlier wants to change that and deliver a handful of insights right to your inbox that matter most for your job, company and industry. Today the company announced a $6.2 million Series […]
View More Outlier raises $6.2 M Series A to change how companies use dataCategory: business intelligence
AI-fueled market intelligence firm Signal Media takes $16M to tackle more targets
Signal Media has closed a $16 million Series B funding round for an AI-fueled approach to media monitoring and b2b market intelligence. The UK startup uses machine learning techniques to filter through external information at scale — generating real-time insights for its customers, including for reputation management and decision support purposes. Its system analyzes more […]
View More AI-fueled market intelligence firm Signal Media takes $16M to tackle more targetsAWS launches pay-per-session pricing for its QuickSight BI tool
Amazon QuickSight, the company’s business intelligence tool for AWS, launched back in 2015, but it’s hard to say how much impact the service has made in the highly competitive BI market. The company has far from given up on this project, though, and today, it’s introducing a new pay-per-session pricing plan for access to QuickSight dashboards that […]
View More AWS launches pay-per-session pricing for its QuickSight BI toolUber to pop up a service in Spain’s Costa del Sol in time for summer
Uber is expanding its presence in Spain by launching a licensed service on the country’s southern Costa del Sol coastline — ahead of the summer season when the region draws in millions of international tourists. Last year the tourist hotspot pulled in some 12.5M visitors. Clearly Uber wants to cut itself a chunk of that […]
View More Uber to pop up a service in Spain’s Costa del Sol in time for summerKaptivo looks to digitally transform the lowly whiteboard
At Kaptivo, a company that’s bringing high-tech image recognition, motion capture and natural language processing technologies to the lowly whiteboard, executives are hoping that the second time is the charm. The Cambridge, UK and San Mateo, Calif.-based company began life as a company called Light Blue Optics, and had raised $50 million in financing since […]
View More Kaptivo looks to digitally transform the lowly whiteboardFour MIT students have launched DeepBench to democratize access to expert networks
New European financial regulations requiring fund managers at investment firms to pay banks for research and trading services separately could open the door for new entrants in the professional advisory services marketplace.
The rules, which were approved in 2014, but only took effect in January, are proving to be a boon for four MIT students who launched a company last year to try and grab some of the market.
View More Four MIT students have launched DeepBench to democratize access to expert networksSeattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fund
The founding partners of the new Seattle-based venture firm Flying Fish met as angel investors deploying capital in the talent-heavy, cash-light region around Amazon and Microsoft’s corporate headquarters. “We’ve underperformed relative to the talent pool,” is how Heather Redman, one of the firm’s three founding partners describes the region. Well, now Flying Fish has held […]
View More Seattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fundCrunchbase opens a marketplace for 3rd-party data in bid to be the ‘master database for companies’
Last year, when tech-company database Crunchbase (once a part of TechCrunch but since spun out) announced a funding round of $18 million, it previewed plans for a new marketplace where it would sell access to third-party data to supplement its own information. Now nearly one year later, it’s taking the wraps off that project.
Today the company announced a new service called Crunchbase… Read More