data analytics

It’s not easy for organizations to become data-driven, despite the aspirations many have to get there. Even orgs with data analytics teams often struggle to make effective use of their…

German computer scientists raise $30 million to help companies make sense of their data

The long-term goal with Rivos is to build chips primarily for servers that can handle intensive data analytics and AI workloads, including generative AI workloads.

Apple lawsuit behind it, chip startup Rivos plots its next moves

There are ways companies can better understand their customers’ pain points to develop the right products that solve the right problems at the right time.

4 startup fundamentals to help avoid epic product fails

Many companies grapple with data challenges. In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren’t comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations. In a separate poll…

Data visualization startup Virtualitics lands $37M investment

Tracer, a platform that attempts to consolidate an organization’s data sources and enrich them with business insights, today announced that it raised $18.1 million in a Series A funding round…

Tracer nabs $18.1m to aggregate and normalize business data

There is no panacea to guarantee that top talent will stick around in an organization, but you can try a few things to boost retention.

Strategic warfare: How to hire and retain top analytics talent

Jordan Tigani — a founding engineer at Google BigQuery, Google’s fully managed data analysis platform — was working as the chief product officer at SingleStore when he noticed that the…

MotherDuck secures investment from Andreessen Horowitz to commercialize DuckDB

Data engineers have a big problem. Almost every team in their business needs access to analytics and other information that can be gleaned from their data warehouses, but only a…

Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users

In the last decade, so-called chief people officers (CPO) have seen a dramatic expansion of their day-to-day responsibilities. The role has evolved from an administrative HR function to a more…

Knoetic lands $36M to unify diverse sources of HR data

StarTree, a company building what it describes as an “analytics-as-a-service” platform, today announced that it raised $47 million in a Series B round led by GGV Capital with participation from…

Data analytics startup StarTree secures cash to expand its Apache Pinot-powered platform

The pandemic prompted countless companies to migrate to the cloud. By 2025, driven partly by the need for digital services, 85% of enterprises will have a cloud-first principle, according to…

Equalum lands new capital to help companies build data pipelines

Can AI automate enterprise decision-making? It’s an exceptionally broad and challenging task — assuming it’s within the realm of possibility. But that’s what startup Arena claims to do, fueled by…

Arena raises money from Peter Thiel and David Petraeus for its decision-making AI

Voyantis, a startup developing tools to estimate a customer’s lifetime value, today emerged from stealth with $19 million in seed funding from Target Global, Square Peg, Schusterman Family Investments, Kaedan…

Voyantis emerges from stealth to predict customer lifetime value

Amberdata, an institutionally focused digital asset data provider, has raised $30 million in its Series B, its CEO Shawn Douglass exclusively told TechCrunch. The company is now valued at $330…

Amberdata raises $30M to chase the ‘unlimited opportunity’ of bringing traditional finance into web3

Databases are an essential part of doing business in the digital world, but not every organization is achieving success with them. In a 2019 Vanson Bourne survey, enterprises said that…

EdgeDB wants to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps

One of the biggest challenges enterprises face is processing all the data that they gather, and — by extension — deriving insights from that data. According to a 2018 Gartner…

Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

Baseball is like a laboratory for advanced statistical analysis, and businesses could learn a lot from watching how the sport deals with expanding datasets.

With more data available than ever, are companies making smarter decisions?

Collecting data based on a vague hypothetical scenario indicates a lack of intuitive understanding of what kinds of data are actually important to collect from users.

Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it

Airplanes and drones today, regardless of size or fuel type, all face the same limitation: eventually they have to land. Skydweller Aero, the U.S.-Spanish aerospace startup, wants to break free…

Solar-powered aircraft developer Skydweller Aero adds $8M to Series A, partners with Palantir

Satellite operator Planet Labs is beefing up its existing partnership with Google Cloud. Under a new agreement, Planet customers can use Google Cloud to store and process data, and access…

Planet Labs and Google Cloud join forces in data analysis agreement

Data science platform Dataiku announced today it has raised a $400 million Series E, bringing its valuation to $4.6 billion. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from…

Dataiku gets $400M at a $4.6B valuation, led by Tiger Global

Coralogix got its start as a platform aimed at quality assurance support for R&D and engineering teams. The focus here is on log analytics and metrics for platform engineers.

Coralogix logs $55M for its new take on production analytics, now valued at $300M-$400M

Since launching in 2013, Taipei-based TNL Media Group has grown from an independent news site to a media company with several online publishing verticals and a data analytics business. Now…

Taiwan-based TNL Media Group raises $8 million to build its publishing and data analytics businesses

According to data pipeline startup Hevo, many small to medium-sized companies juggle more than 40 different applications to manage sales, marketing, finance, customer support and other operations. All of these…

Hevo draws in $8 million Series A for its no-code data pipeline service

Planck, an AI-based data platform for insurance underwriting, has raised a $16 million Series B led by Team8 Capital. The New York-based startup anticipates that clients will need to handle…

Insurance data analytics platform Planck raises $16 million Series B

Delman, a Jakarta-based data management startup, has raised $1.6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Intudo Ventures, with participation from Prasetia Dwidharma Ventures and Qlue Performa Indonesia,…

Indonesian startup Delman raises $1.6 million to help companies clean up data

When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion, it was a big deal on a couple of levels. It was a lot of money…

Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition

Placer.ai, a startup that analyzes location and foot traffic analytics for retailers and other businesses, announced today that it has closed a $12 million Series A. The round was led…

Placer.ai, a location data analytics startup, raises $12 million Series A

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How early-stage startups can use data effectively

It’s a common belief that startups can measure their way to success. Yet early-stage startups often can’t leverage data easily. This piece discusses what to (not) focus on and how to get real results.

How early-stage startups can use data effectively

Cultivated data is the next Gold Rush

Data and analytics is finally being valued and becoming mission critical: It is no longer “just another tool” to have in the toolbox, but is key to a company’s success.

Cultivated data is the next Gold Rush