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More VC funding of Analytics Firms- Mu Sigma Raises $25M

June 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm · Filed under Data Mining, Predictive Analytics and tagged:

Interesting to see so many analytics firms raising gobs of cash these days.  I sincerely hope that these firms are building products and not simply providing professional services to owners of large datasets.

Latest big raise is from Mu Sigma, a Chicago-based firm that raised $25M from Sequoia.  Details here.

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Alpine Data Labs Secures $7.5M in funding

May 18, 2011 at 5:20 pm · Filed under Data Mining, Predictive Analytics and tagged:

VC now backing analytics firms.    Am curious to hear if players such as Alpine have specific algorithms that are directed to a particular problem, or if they plan to become large professional services plays.  Will continue to watch this player.

Link to article is here.

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