企业沟通协作工具 Slack 获得8000 万美元融资用于的应用开发基金Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy
据华尔街时报消息,企业沟通协作工具 Slack 透露已获得 8000 万美元新一轮融资,此轮融资将用于应用商店的投资基金。另外,Slack 还宣布将更新手机端App,这次更新将整合一些功能,如将支持亚马逊的网页服务。
Slack 的创始人兼 CEO Stewart Butterfield表示,希望这次融资能为投资者带来回报,但这并不是融资的目的,而是希望融资能激发大家更好地开发 App。
据悉,Slack 曾在 11月被华尔街日报评为 2015年的技术创新者(Technology Innovator),Slack 去年客户规模增长了 10 倍,达到了 125 万,其中 50% 为海外客户。
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2015年12月16日
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以色列大数据公司 Anodot 获 300 万美元 A 轮融资
Anodot日前在 A 轮系列融资中获得 300 万美元,投资方为 Disrupt-ive,融资总额已达 450 万美元。
Anodot 是一家提供实时分析和异常检测的大数据创业公司,成立于 2014年6月,总部位于以色列,还在森尼维尔市、加利福尼亚、以色列的瑞安那等多地成立了办事处。
Anodot 通过已获得专利的机器学习算法,实时在大量的数据中发现异常的数据并把他们转为有价值的商业信息,以消除商业观察中的延迟,支持快速的商业决策,目前主要应用在广告技术、电子商务和物联网行业。
值得一提的是创始团队成员都是连续创业者,Anodot 的 CEO David Drai 曾是 Cotendo 公司的联合创始人兼 CTO,这家公司最后被 AKamai 以两亿六千八百万美元收购。而 Anodot 的首席数据分析专家 Dr.Lra Cohen 是惠普软件的前 CTO。研发副总裁 Shay Lang 同样有多年相关经验。此外,董事会的成员还包括 Impreva CEO 兼总裁 Anthony Bettencourt,O’ Reilly Media 的首席数据分析师 Ben Lorica。
今年早些时候就有行业分析称,BI 将会在未来快速发展,到 2018年 之前,有望以每年8.3%的增率、两百亿美金的市值增长。正如很多 BI 公司已在 2015年 拿到了融资,例如以色列创业公司 Pyramid Analytics 和 Sisence 都在今年获得了 3000 万美元的投资,Looker 也在今年3月 份融到了 3000 万美元,Adaptive Insights 则在 6月 份获得了 7500 万美元。
Disrupt-ive 的合伙人兼 Anodot 董事会成员 Tal Barnoach 此前曾发表声明:“通过自动化、实时的对大数据指标和关键信息进行提取分析,来变革商业智能,这有着巨大的市场潜力。”
Anodot 的 CEO David Drai 也表示:“拿打车 APP 来说,订单都是基于短信系统,若出现问题则至少需要 3 天来进行修复,动则会损失上万美元。这就是我创立 Anodot 的初衷,希望利用机器学习和自动监测来进行实时分析,降低由延迟发现问题造成的损失。”
据悉,知名科技公司 WIX 和 Avantis 都已是 Anodot 的客户,本轮融资将用于在物联网、电子商务、广告技术等的市场扩张。
Israeli business intel startup Anodot scores $3 million in Series A
Anodot, a business intelligence startup that specializes in anomaly detection, exited stealth on Wednesday and announced a $3 million Series A funding round led by Tel Aviv- and New York-based Disrupt-ive Fund. Its total funding to date is $4.5 million.
They use machine learning algorithms to identify system anomalies. Already counting prominent tech companies Wix and Avantis among their clientele, the new round will help them expand their sales strategy toward IoT, e-commerce, and adtech companies abroad.
“There is a huge opportunity to disrupt the BI market by enabling automated and real-time insights into big data pools of metrics and KPIs,” said Disrupt-ive Fund general partner and Anodot board member Tal Barnoach in statement to the press.
Its co-founders have impressive resumes: CEO David Drai is also the co-founder and former CTO of Cotendo, which was acquired by Akamai for $268 million, and the former CTO of Gett. Chief Data Scientist Dr. Ira Cohen is the former CTO of HP Software and VP of R&D Shay Lang has experience at several tech companies. Their board includes the likes of Imperva CEO and President Anthony Bettencourt and O’Reilly Media chief data scientist Ben Lorica.
“As a mobile taxi app, SMS text orders were dropped by the carrier, but it could take up to three days to spot critical issues and fix them, costing tens of thousands of dollars per incident,” Drai said. “That’s where I got the idea for Anodot—to employ the latest advances in machine learning to detect performance problems automatically and in real-time, eliminating the latency.”
BI is flying high
The business intelligence market is expected to grow 8.3% per year to a value of $20.8 billion in 2018, according to an industry analysis by MarketsandMarkets published earlier this year. Consequently, BI companies have raised a lot of money in 2015. Fellow Israeli startups Pyramid Analytics and Sisense both raised $30 million rounds this year. Other companies include Looker, which also received $30 million in March, and Adaptive Insights, which brought in $75 million back in June.
The company was founded in June 2014 by co-founders CEO David Drai, Chief Data Scientist Dr. Ira Cohen, and VP of R&D Shay Lang. They maintain offices in Sunnyvale, California and Ra’anana, Israel.
本文来源:geektime.com
在线教育网站Jigsaw Academy获得300万美元A轮融资
Jigsaw Academy 成立于 2011 年,总部位于印度。公司为一家在线教育网站,致力于为用户提供关于大数据处理,数据挖掘以及数据分析等课程。据公司负责人称, Jigsaw Academy 已经为全球 30多个国家,超过40000 名学生提供课程服务,课程主要包括零售,电商,人力资源。
本轮领投的公司为同样为用户提供课程测试和教育的Manipal Global Education Service (MaGE)公司,此外Mohandas Pai,MaGE CEO以及数位投资人也加入此次的融资。本轮融资的金额将会用于更多的课程开发,同时也将会利用 领投公司MaGE 在全球市场的优势拓展市场。
来源:vccircle.com
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2015年12月14日
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印度版58同城UrbanClap获今年第四轮融资
12月11日,印度服务类平台UrbanClap 获 Ratan Tata 投资,融资金额尚未公布。该创业公司本次融资距上次融资不到一个月的时间(11月19日),上次融资金额为 16 亿卢比(约 1.54 亿元),投资方为 Bessemer Venture Partners、Accel Partners 和 SAIF。本次投资方为之前参与投资的 Accel Partners 和 SAIF。
UrbanClap 发表声明称会将这些资金用于市场扩张和服务种类扩展,预计下一年发展到 25 座城市,种类达到 100 种。同时,UrbanClap 还准备将员工数量扩大到现在的 2 倍,并且有收购其他公司的打算。本年4月 份,UrbanClap 种子轮融资金额为 150 万美元,6月 份,获 1000 万美元融资。
UrbanClap 声称现在每天大约有 5000 名用户,专业人员超过 25,000 名。目前服务地区有班加罗尔、孟买、海德拉巴、金奈、普纳和德里首都区,正在招聘产品人员、市场营销人员、工程师和业务拓展人员。2014年10月Varun Khaitan、Raghav Chandra 和 Abhiraj Bhal 创办了 UrbanClap,服务种类高达 75 种,包括管道维修、婚礼摄像、音乐课程、瑜伽课程和室内设计。
UrbanClap raises an undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata
Services marketplace UrbanClap has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Ratan Tata in his personal capacity. This comes less than a month after the startup raised Rs 165 crore from Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investors Accel Partners and SAIF.
At the time UrbanClap had said it would use the funds for geographical and category expansion; 25 cities and 100 categories in the next one year. It said it would also double its employee count and acquire other companies. Note that UrbanClap had also raised $10 million in a round of funding from existing investors in June and raised seed funding of around $1.5 million (Rs 10 crore) in April.
UrbanClap claims to serve 5,000 customer requests daily, and has a seller base of over 25,000 professionals. It is currently operational in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Delhi NCR and is hiring across product, marketing, engineering and business development. Founded by Varun Khaitan, Raghav Chandra and Abhiraj Bhal in October 2014, UrbanClap provides professionals for over 75 services, including plumbing, wedding photography, music lessons, yoga classes and interior designing.
本文编译自:medianama.com