"Analytics is a fundamental element of the SMAC model, providing the practical insight essential to driving innovation in the organisation and gaining a competitive advantage from disparate data," Logicalis says. As evidence of this, in May, both the Spanish and UK divisions made acquisitions in the big data analytics sector.
In 2015, investments in big data companies accounted for 11% of total venture capital investments.
By the end of this year, the big data analytics market is expected to reach $16.9B in revenues, up 5% from 2015. Among the sectors in which big data will grow the most in the coming years are manufacturing and banking, which are expected to be the fastest-growing...
Beabloo, a specialist in digital marketing onmicanal and Big Data has bought Metriplica, focused on online analytics.
Technology company Beabloo has bought online analytics company Metriplica for €2M to improve the services Beabloo provides to its customers, making progress in attracting online consumers to physical shops. Customers will be able to link...
NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners: Most active investors in big data
Investment in big data analytics companies grew considerably in 2015, when 73 rounds were made for an amount of $$1.8B. In the first half of 2016, investment seems to have fallen a little, with 25 rounds. Big data and...
H2020 PPP in the field of Big Data
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are European initiatives that support R&D&I in areas of particular relevance to Europe's economy and industrial leadership. To do so, it brings together funds from different areas of H2020 and leverages private sector investment.
Using Big Data for semantic analysis gets funding.
In the last two months two Spanish Big Data companies that use natural language processing for semantic analysis: Bitext and Sentisis, have received the backing of investors. Moreover, in recent years the number of companies in the sector has grown considerably.
Investment analysis in the Machine Learning sector
"Machine learning is attracting a lot of interest from tech giants, who are spending a lot of money and effort to hire the best machine learning researchers. Companies in the sector are aware of this and are making a...
Big data in education appeals to investors
Technologies for capturing and managing large volumes of data, known as big data, are being applied to a multitude of business sectors. One of these is the education sector, which has seen approximately $150M from early 2013 to date from 30 companies.
Investment in big data continues to grow
The management and exploitation of big data is seen as a key to the development of competitive advantage in many industries. A multitude of companies have emerged that have developed core technology or vertical applications that have found strong support from venture capital.
Traity big data for recruitment receives investment from relevant funds
Technology continues to influence the recruitment process. Traity offers personality measurement to complement curriculum information.
Kyruus raises 11MM$ for big data development in the healthcare sector
Kyruus, the leading Big Data healthcare company, announced in Q1 2013 the closing of a Series B $ 11M financing. The investment was led by Capital Lux, with participation from Fidelity Biosciences, as well as existing investors Venrock Partners and Highland Capital. The financing brings the total amount raised by Kyruus to 19.6MM$ since its inception in 2010.
Kyruus raises 11MM$ for big data development in the healthcare sector
Kyruus, the leading Big Data healthcare company, announced in Q1 2013 the closing of a Series B $ 11M financing. The investment was led by Capital Lux, with participation from Fidelity Biosciences, as well as existing investors Venrock Partners and Highland Capital. The financing brings the total amount raised by Kyruus to 19.6MM$ since its inception in 2010.