Category Archives: business intelligence

Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses

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Hightouch, a SaaS service that helps businesses sync their customer data across sales and marketing tools, is coming out of stealth and announcing a $2.1 million seed round. The round was led by Afore Capital and Slack Fund, with a number of angel investors also participating. At its core, Hightouch, which participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 […] Continue reading Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses→

Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service

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As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog, track and manage how that data is shared are also becoming increasingly important. With Azure Purview, Microsoft is launching a new data governance service into public preview today that brings together all of these capabilities in a new […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service→

AWS adds natural language search service for business intelligence from its data sets

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When Amazon Web Services launched QuickSight, its business intelligence service, back in 2016 the company wanted to provide product information and customer information for business users — not just developers. At the time, the natural language processing technologies available weren’t robust enough to give customers the tools to search databases effectively using queries in plain […] Continue reading AWS adds natural language search service for business intelligence from its data sets→

Databricks launches SQL Analytics

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AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes. And with that, enterprises can now easily connect their business intelligence tools like Tableau and Microsoft’s Power BI to these data repositories […] Continue reading Databricks launches SQL Analytics→

Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack

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Mozart Data founders Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman have been friends for over 20 years, working at various startups, and even launching a hot sauce company together along the way. As technologists, they saw companies building a data stack over and over. They decided to provide one for them and Mozart Data was born. The […] Continue reading Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack→

Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards

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Explo, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 class, which is helping customers build customer-facing business intelligence dashboards, announced a $2.3 million seed round today. Investors included Amplo VC, Soma Capital and Y Combinator along with several individual investors. The company originally was looking at a way to simplify getting data ready for models […] Continue reading Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards→

MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

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We’ve seen our fair share of business intelligence (BI) platforms that aim to make data analysis accessible to everybody in a company. Most of them are still fairly complicated, no matter what their marketing copy says. MachEye, which is launching its AI-powered BI platform today, is offering a new twist on this genre. In addition […] Continue reading MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform→

How to Measure Effectiveness of Your Security Operations with SOAR and Business Intelligence (+Video)

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Rising above the daily firefighting to actually measure the effectiveness of your security operations is easier said than done. This,…
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Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M

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Varada, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on making it easier for businesses to query data across services, today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Israeli early-stage fund MizMaa Ventures, with participation by Gefen Capital. “If you look at the storage aspect for big data, there’s always innovation, […] Continue reading Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M→

As the pandemic creates supply chain chaos, Craft raises $10M to apply some intelligence

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains have suddenly become hot. Who knew that would ever happen? The race to secure PPE, ventilators and minor things like food was and still is an enormous issue. But perhaps, predictably, the world of “supply chain software” could use some updating. Most of the platforms are deployed “empty” and […] Continue reading As the pandemic creates supply chain chaos, Craft raises $10M to apply some intelligence→