{"id":490,"date":"2015-08-28T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=95"},"modified":"2023-08-29T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:21:35","slug":"surge-in-big-data-venture-capital-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/consumer-tech\/surge-in-big-data-venture-capital-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surge in Big Data Venture Capital Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the growing realization that big data is here to stay, there is a rise in both the number of venture capital firms investing in big data startups and also the amount of money being invested. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lsvp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lightspeed Venture Partners<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequoiacap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sequoia Capital<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaventures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IA Ventures<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Enterprise Associates<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khoslaventures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khosla Ventures<\/a> lead the pack in the number of big data investments. \u00a0New VCs focused exclusively on big data are also popping up. \u00a0The size of investments in some of these companies is rather large. For instance, Palantirwhich provides analytics solutions to government and financial sectorshas been able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/palantir-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">raise<\/a> an astounding $605 million. \u00a0Last year, also witnessed three big data IPOsSplunk ($331 million), Tableau ($254 million), and Rocket Fuel ($116 million). \u00a0Indeed, these are exciting times for anyone working on or investing in data and analytics.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-444\"><\/span>The infographic below from big data startups does a fine job in summarizing these trends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the growing realization that big data is here to stay, there is a rise in both the number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[137],"ppma_author":[1606],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer-tech","tag-venture-capital"],"authors":[{"term_id":1606,"user_id":11,"is_guest":0,"slug":"cameron-turner","display_name":"Cameron Turner","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cameron.jpeg","url2x":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cameron.jpeg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"Turner","first_name":"Cameron","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29567,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/29567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}