Tableau Software is enjoying life on Wall Street. The Seattle company, a maker of software to visualize data, saw its shares spike more than 15 percent in Tuesday trading after… Read More
Big Data is a big buzzword, used so often these days that the term seems to have lost some of its meaning. “Definition is a problem now, because anybody who… Read More
The data provided by free services like Google Analytics and Facebook for websites and company pages can be extremely valuable for marketers — that is, if they actually know what… Read More
It’s sunny skies today for The Climate Corp., a 7-year-old San Francisco company that sells insurance to farmers and uses weather data to better predict crop yields. Monsanto, the giant… Read More
Ignition Partners has led a $15 million venture capital round in BlueData, a stealthy Mountain View, California startup that’s developing private cloud technologies for businesses. Other investors in the round… Read More
Businesses today want to know as much as they can about their customers in order to better serve them. Often times, though, they are working only with information they’ve collected… Read More
There is more data in baseball than perhaps any other sport. From the basic stats — balls, strikes, runs — to the more complicated — pitch angles, on-base percentages —… Read More
In its first earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Seattle-based Tableau wowed Wall Street, posting revenues of $49.9 million for the quarter. That was up 71 percent over the same… Read More
Minetta Brook, a big data startup led by Deepak “DB” Bharadwaj and Prabhu Venkatesh, has raised $2 million in seed funding to continue work on its first product for the financial services… Read More
Context Relevant has reeled in $7 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle company will use for continued development of its advanced analytics software. Investors in the round include… Read More
SpaceCurve, which is developing a big data platform that it says provides “instantaneous intelligence” for location-based services, commodities and other markets, today is announcing that it has raised $10 million… Read More
Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday’s initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we’ve got a concrete number. The company will price its shares at… Read More
It was a major coup last summer when The University of Washington hooked computer science professor Carlos Guestrin, a leading data scientist and expert in machine learning. What wasn’t widely known at… Read More
Tableau Software, the fast-growing 10-year-old Seattle company which helps businesses and organization make better sense of their data, has set terms for its upcoming initial public offering, telling investors that… Read More
The Big Apple versus The Emerald City. Could this be an epic showdown over data geeks? That’s the discussion in a story by New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller… Read More
We’ve been wondering what former Microsoft vice president Sanjay Parthasarathy has been building ever since we discovered his startup, Indix, 18 months ago. Parthasarathy, who spent 19 years at Microsoft, including a… Read More
A Seattle data technology startup is taking the phrase “know your customer” to a whole new level. Versium Analytics today introduced a new analytics platform called LifeData. Led by former InfoSpace… Read More
Big data requires big thinkers. And some of Seattle’s top minds — from University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni to Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura to Amazon.com’s Charlie Bell… Read More
With the backdrop of fish swimming by at the Seattle Aquarium, OneOcean Corp. CEO Don Pickering on Tuesday night took the wraps off his company’s debut product, an ambitious new… Read More
Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve announced today that it has set a real-time Big Data performance record for ingesting streaming data and spitting out numbers immediately for queries. SpaceCurve ran a full-blown… Read More
The University of Washington is already a budding hub for computer science. Now, with some help from a national laboratory, the Seattle campus will become even more of a CS… Read More
While most people will spend Super Bowl Sunday sitting on their couches, a group of hackers, data crunchers and sports fans will be doing something a little bit different in… Read More
Scientists have been collecting data on the world’s oceans for decades now. But the files containing this information are massive and come in dozens of formats, creating an unwieldy mess… Read More
Seattle startup Context Relevant today announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Concur Technologies to bring its advanced data analytics offering to the maker of travel and… Read More
Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has moved to a larger office in Pioneer Square, tripling the amount of space it previously had. The expansion follows a $3.5 million funding round from… Read More
Trifacta, a San Francisco big data company co-founded by incoming University of Washington computer science professor Jeffrey Heer and University of California-Berkeley computer scientist Joe Hellerstein, emerged from stealth mode today… Read More
Facebook and its third-party applications today know a hell of a lot about each us: what content we read (Washington Post Social Reader); what music we listen to (Spotify); what… Read More
Context Relevant doesn’t want to be the next “acquihire,” selling out to a large technology company before the promise of its technology is realized. Even though offers have flowed in… Read More
Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has pulled in $3.5 million in new financing, including investments by Reed Elsevier Ventures and new investor Triage Ventures. Total funding in the 12-person startup, which… Read More
Can’t get enough of big data? A new contest created by YarcData — a unit of Seattle supercomputer maker Cray Inc. — will give away $100,000 in prize money to… Read More
