business analytics

Startups

Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M

Ingrid Lunden

A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who’s who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned.

Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M
Startups

Sisense acquires Periscope Data to build integrated data science and analytics solution

Ron Miller

Sisense announced today that it has acquired Periscope Data to create what it is calling a complete data science and analytics platform for customers. The companies did not disclose the…

Sisense acquires Periscope Data to build integrated data science and analytics solution

Investors serve up $50 million for ThoughtSpot’s search engine for enterprise data

Jonathan Shieber

ThoughtSpot, which you should think of as a Google for data analysis within a business, has raised $50 million in Series C round of funding, because its technology is pretty…

Investors serve up $50 million for ThoughtSpot’s search engine for enterprise data
Venture

Birst Lands $26M From Sequoia, Hummer Winblad To Bring Big Data Analytics To The Masses

Rip Empson

Birst, a San Francisco-based startup that offers on-demand business intelligence and analytics solutions for companies big and small, has raised $26 million in series D financing, led by Sequoia Capital.…

Birst Lands $26M From Sequoia, Hummer Winblad To Bring Big Data Analytics To The Masses