Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2025

The number of new unicorn companies ticked up in 2024, driven largely by U.S.-based based AI companies, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. The Crunchbase Unicorn Board added 110 companies globally last year, up from 100 in 2023, with the U.S. Altogether, these companies are valued at north of $5 billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company raised $110 million in total including its $33 million Series C last summer. CEO Brian Bell, who came on board at the end of 2019, says the company helps development teams deliver controlled rollouts of new features. The company is growing fast and expects to be between 200 and 250 employees in the next 12 months.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Like similar startups, y42 extends the idea data warehouse, which was traditionally used for analytics, and helps businesses operationalize this data. At the core of the service is a lot of open source and the company, for example, contributes to GitLabs’ Meltano platform for building data pipelines. Image Credits: y42.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For many organizations, the shift to cloud computing has played out more realistically as a shift to hybrid architectures, where a company’s data is just as likely to reside in one of a number of clouds as it might in an on-premise deployment, in a data warehouse or in a data lake.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The company has filed paperwork for the fundraise in Delaware, first discovered by Justin Byers and the team at Prime Unicorn Index. . “We have a company policy where we don’t comment on speculations,” a spokesperson said to me via email. “We don’t have a comment at this time but I’ll reach out if anything changes.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The company, which describes itself as a ‘cloud-based restaurant operating system built for African chefs and food business owners,’ had its round led by pan-African investor LoftyInc Capital. They don’t have access to software that does analytics and inventory management right off the gate. Last year, 80% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Dear Sophie, I earned my master’s degree in business analytics last year, and have been working for a company while on OPT since then. The two-year STEM OPT extension.

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CTOvision

APRIL 16, 2015

Across the insurance industry, companies have access to better data and more sophisticated methods of analysis than they did in the past; analyses of only a few years ago are no longer adequate to keep modern insurers competitive. They are not comfortable making decisions based on analytical approaches that they do not fully understand.

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2014

Pentaho Announces Record Year in 2013 with 83% Growth in Big Data and Embedded Analytics. March 12, 2014, San Francisco, CA —Delivering the future of analytics , Pentaho Corporation today announced that 2013 was another record year with 83 percent bookings growth from big data and embedded analytics customers over 2012.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Preemptive Crisis Analytics as the new reality answers the call. Prescriptive Analytics: Now what? And, so what?

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Apiumhub

MARCH 18, 2021

More data is available to businesses than ever, which is why business analytics is a growing field. Airlines may rely on business analytics to determine ticket prices, for example, while hospitals use data to optimize the flow of patients or schedule surgeries. What is Business Analytics?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The company plans to partner with others to launch such centers in markets like Kenya and the Philippines. -based edtech has partnered with local organizations to offer learning community spaces that help learners circumvent infrastructural problems like internet and transportation. Nexford University offers the same programs as last year.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

From their press release: Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics at Scale on Amazon Web Services and Cloudera. Opens Data Refinery to Amazon Redshift and Cloudera Impala; Pushes the Limits of Analytics Through Blended, Governed Data Delivery On Demand. Enterprise Cloud Analytics with Amazon Redshift. “We Pentaho 5.3:

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We’ve seen the transformation of the business analytics world over the last few years,” Liu said, “where you have this ecosystem of cloud-native tooling that’s emerged that really reduces the complexity for someone less specialized to set up data infrastructure in their company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Dear Sophie: How do I successfully expand my company to the US? Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Do we need a visa to explore the US market?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

New York–based Arena is the brainchild of Pratap Ranade and Engin Ural, who co-founded the company in 2020. The two were inspired to build a platform that could, leveraging predictive algorithms, help businesses formulate strategies to navigate “uncertain” environments — like a global pandemic. Unsupervised, Pecan.ai

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Datavail

MARCH 31, 2022

Digital analytics offer enterprises an almost limitless array of values because they are as malleable as each business needs them to be. Further, these analytical capacities continue to evolve as more companies develop proprietary analytics to meet their specific sector demands. Analytics as a Strategy Tool.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The company adopted multiple services within the Zero Trust Exchange to streamline and simplify its security infrastructure. Pillar 4: Business analytics With the world’s largest security cloud processing more than 300 billion transactions per day, Zscaler provides unparalleled business analytics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In late 2020, developers Noam Liran and Alex Litvak were inspired to create a platform that applied automation concepts from security to the business analytics space. Based on data from Venture Scanner, VC funding in RO&I companies jumped from $321 million in 2020 to $952 million in 2021.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Pentaho has created a comprehensive platform that includes data integration and business analytics. Their mission: To not only provide our customers with a business analytics platform that fuels growth and innovation, but also one that is fast to deploy, easy to use and extremely cost-effective.

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Datavail

MARCH 3, 2022

Today’s advanced technologies provide data analytics programming to understand, learn from, and harness the values hidden deep in those data center depths. Data Science = Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence = Analytics. The nature of descriptive analytics programming is also significant.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2021

Business intelligence (BI) platforms are evolving. By adding artificial intelligence and machine learning, companies are transforming data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2020

From leading banks, and insurance organizations to some of the largest telcos, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare and pharma, organizations across diverse verticals lead the way with real-time data and streaming analytics. These businesses use data-fueled insights to enhance the customer experience, reduce costs, and increase revenues.

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2023

Business analysts are in high demand, with 24% of Fortune 500 companies currently hiring business analysts across a range of industries, including technology (27%), finance (13%), professional services (10%), and healthcare (5%), according to data from Zippia. Amazon, Capgemini, and IBM.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2022

NewVantage Partners’ Data and AI Leadership Executive Survey 2022 , on the other hand, found that 74% of the firms it surveyed had appointed chief data or analytics officers, or both combined in one role. They may also be responsible for data analytics and business intelligence — the process of drawing valuable insights from data.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

What is a business analyst? Business analysts (BAs) are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence tools for one of the key sectors in that space, hotels — is announcing a round of funding as it too picks up more business on the upswing. And yet after they arrived they could see that a lot of hotels had spaces and were drastically dropping prices.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 18, 2013

In March 2011 Businessweek quoted Cloudera’s Mike Olson describing a “Cambrian explosion” of corporate analytical technology. They deliver on the promise of Hadoop and Big Data, by providing a collaborative and intuitive visual environment for teams to quickly create and deploy analytics workflows and predictive models.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The company has picked up $150 million and says that since quietly opening for business in mid-2020 it has already acquired 20 startups in categories like home, leisure and lifestyle across Europe, the United States and Asia. SellerX raises $118M to buy up and grow Amazon marketplace businesses. That came on the heels of U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

” Workiz’s CEO himself was once a locksmith, similar to co-founders Idan Kadosh and Erez Marom (who co-founded the startup with Saar Kohanovitch), but he might be better known for co-founding his previous startup, Sisense, the business analytics company now valued at over $1 billion. Image: Workiz.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 13, 2014

October 9, 2014 , Orlando, FL —Pentaho Corporation’s CEO Quentin Gallivan opened the first PentahoWorld conference today by inviting delegates to fast-forward to a future where analytics and data are embedded into the fabric of organizations, driving optimal decision-making at the point of business impact. About Pentaho Corporation.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

With Amazon Q Business Insights, administrators can diagnose potential issues such as unclear user prompts, misconfigured topics and guardrails, insufficient metadata boosters, or inadequate data source configurations. They are available at no additional charge in AWS Regions where the Amazon Q Business service is offered.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Acquisition delivers data integration, business analytics expertise, and foundational technologies that accelerate big data value. TSE: 6501), today announced its intent to acquire Pentaho Corporation, a leading big data integration and business analytics company with an open source-based platform for diverse big data deployments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Ironically, on the same day, Mary Ann wrote about Emburse , a spend management company that started in enterprise that’s now going after Brex’s small business territory. There’s been a ton of EV companies that made their way to the public markets by being “aquired” by an already-listed company, rather than going the regular IPO route.

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Sunflower Lab

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Diving into World of Business Analytics Data analytics is not an old concept, it is an essential practice which has driven business success in the past and the present, it will confidently drive the success in the future too.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

It’s a well-known business mantra that receives a brand new layer of importance in the 21 st century. The reason is simple – people and organizations produce massive amounts of information daily, but only the most agile companies make use of it to analyze consumer behavior and improve business outcomes.

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