Sentences with phrase «funded data company»

A May 2017 profile in the Guardian that painted the Robert Mercer - funded data company as shadowy and all - powerful resulted in legal action on behalf of Cambridge Analytica.

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The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the company at $ 115 million, including the new funds raised, according to data provided by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture capital deals.

• Imply, a Burlingame, Calif. - based data analytics company, raised $ 13.3 million in Series A funding.

Hedge funds, manufacturers and e-commerce companies all use Spire's data, as do nonprofits, Earth scientists and government offices.

• Etleap, a San Francisco - based company creating data pipelines, raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding.

- based master data management software company, raised an undisclosed amount in funding from ParkerGale Capital.

The company previously raised Series A funding from Toba Capital, Frost Data Capital and Miramar Venture Partners.

Despite growing public awareness, data shows that of the total companies that received funding last year, only 4 % were owned by women.

Noteworthy tech startups include Gnip, which was one of few companies given access to Twitter's massive data streams, Orbotix, an $ 11 million - funded robotics mobile device innovator, and SendGrid, a cloud - based email infrastructure that has delivered 58 billion emails to date.

The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

• CLARA analytics, a Santa Clara, Calif. - based artificial intelligence and data science company, raised $ 11.5 million in Series A funding.

In recent years, he's started a company called HVF (standing for, enjoyably, «Hard, Valuable, and Fun»), a firm designed to fund projects looking to leverage data and joined Yahoo!'s Board of Directors.

However, it pays to be prepared and go into such conversations with a thorough understanding of the company's funding needs, a clear picture of cash flows, good accounting records, and a sound cash flow forecast with verifiable data.

All total, the ridesharing technology company has raised $ 2.7 billion, according to CrunchBase, crowdsourced record of funding data.

In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.

This company gathers data for cancer treatments and has $ 313 million in funding so far.

Mixpanel, a data analytics company founded in 2009 and funded by the likes of Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, tells developers how exactly you're using their websites and apps.

-- Frank Bien, CEO of data analytics company Looker, which has received $ 180 million in funding from Google Capital G, Redpoint, First Round Capital, and Kleiner

Darling said the new fund's investments will consist of companies that Dell Technologies might eventually want to acquire and startups that help the broader data center ecosystem.

Without significant revenue growth the company has been unable to offset the interest it pays on its heavy debt load, but First Data has hinted that an IPO could be on the horizon, Bloomberg reports, which would raise some much - needed funds.

Amazingly, if these Phase III companies can secure funding, they typically require less than $ 10 million for early clinical data to prove whether something is worth pursuing.

But data by a hedge fund analytics tool called Kensho shows the stocks of these companies are reacting differently this time.

The facts are clearly otherwise and we hear every day about outside penetrations in which company and customer data is stolen, company funds and materials are misdirected and diverted, and millions of dollars of false receipts and invoices are created and fraudulently paid.

Big - data startup Databricks has raised another $ 140 million in venture funding, it announced on Tuesday, bringing the total raised for the four - year - old company to $ 247 million.

SpaceX is raising $ 507 million in a funding round that will value Elon Musk's rocket company at $ 25 billion, according to data from PitchBook.

LONDON / FRANKFURT / MILAN, May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. hedge fund Elliott is stepping up its activities in Europe, a Reuters review of data shows, as it sees more opportunities to unlock value for shareholders by pushing through management changes, company break - ups and merger deals.

LONDON / FRANKFURT / MILAN, May 2 - U.S. hedge fund Elliott is stepping up its activities in Europe, a Reuters review of data shows, as it sees more opportunities to unlock value for shareholders by pushing through management changes, company break - ups and merger deals.

In recent times, several investors have warned of impending unicorn deaths, and a tracker for down rounds — when a company's valuation falls when it raises new funding — has appeared online, courtesy of venture capital data company CB Insights.

Founded in 2004, Palantir is a venture capital - funded company that provides data analysis software, and whose clients include U.S. government agencies.

• Duco, a London - based data engineering technology company, raised $ 28 million in funding.

• BigID Inc., a New York - based company focused on enterprise data protection and privacy for personal data, raised $ 14 million in Series A funding.

Comparably, a platform that provides compensation data for public and private companies, launches today with $ 6.5 million in funding led by Crosslink Capital.

Along the way, he also started the government data transparency company Opengov.com, which received $ 15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz in May.

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This week, The Harvard Business Review released data based on 140 VCs and 189 entrepreneurs that found male - led companies raised five times more funding than the female - led startups.

He also co-founded the secretive data - crunching start - up Palantir and bankrolled Breakout Labs, which only funds what Mr. Thiel calls «hard tech» start - ups that tackle things like new energy, transportation and biotech companies.

It incorporates important elements of company data like employee headcount, funding, web traffic, and mobile app downloads.

Other investors in the deal include GV, Polaris Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Spectrum 28, Asset Management Ventures, Charles River Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Allen and Company and earlier backers Data Collective and Founders Fund.

Using monthly fund data supplied by the Investment Company Institute, QAIB calculates investor returns as the change in assets after excluding sales, redemptions and exchanges.

The angel funding comes four months after the startup raised $ 347,810 (Rs 2.25 crore) from Prasad, who picked 6.54 % stake in the company as part of the transaction, going by VCCEdge, the data research platform of News Corp VCCircle.

New funding will be used to extend sales and marketing into Europe and APAC, expand engineering and data science teams to accelerate the company's new data analytics products, and fund potential acquisitions of key data source partners.

Marrache, who became CEO in August, is leading BFS Capital through a series of customer - focused initiatives that will position the company for long - term growth including increased transparency, deeper reliance on algorithms and data science, enhanced underwriting, and an expedited funding process.

Sovereign wealth funds are looking to buy data — and they're buying the data companies to acquire them.

With the latest funding, Amino will continue on its quest to becoming «the single source of truth for American healthcare,» as the company says, meaning pulling together enough data from insurance claims to create a comprehensive and trusted source of information about healthcare access, cost and quality.

Simon Chong is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Georgian Partners, a growth equity fund that invests in enterprise SaaS companies leveraging data for analytical insight.

With offices in Northbrook, Illinois, Santa Monica, California and Ann Arbor, Michigan, MK Capital invests in companies at all stages of the funding lifecycle, with a strong sector focus on digital media, data center automation, software, and education technology.

Industry net new cash flow data provided by Investment Company Institute © based on the approximately 4,600 US - domiciled equity (domestic and international) mutual funds reported on an aggregate level to the Investment Company Institute ©.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

For example, with Mattermark and Salesforce, sales reps can instantly see updated employee count, latest funding and news among other data on the company page in Salesforce.