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Sunday, 20 November 2011
Accel $100m Fund for Big Data, Hadoop, and NoSQL Databases
Promising times for companies in the data space:
With its new $100 million Big Data Fund, the VC firm’s offices across the globe will invest in applications that help form an ecosystem around existing big data building blocks such as Hadoop and NoSQL. […] Rather, he’s looking for companies that add to Hadoop, NoSQL, solid-state drives or other building blocks by tuning them to become easily consumable analytics engines or by creating products to help users better visualize what their data looks like. Taking it a step further, Li is also interested in applications that might not play up their big data roots at all because the underlying technologies are just a means to an end.
Original title and link: Accel $100m Fund for Big Data, Hadoop, and NoSQL Databases (©myNoSQL)
via: http://gigaom.com/cloud/accel-forms-100m-fund-to-feed-big-data-apps/
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Basho Raises Funding for Expanding Market Reach
The exciting news from yesterday are not over yet. Even if the announcement is not official, it already reached press[1]: Basho, creators of the Riak key-value store and Riak Search, the first full text indexing solution integrated with a NoSQL database, have raised in an up round an additional $7.5mil from a private equity firm and Trifork AS, a Danish systems integrator.
Many of the new companies backing NoSQL databases that have raised funds recently were planning to use these investments to expand their technical teams. In Basho’s case, plan is to use this round mostly for expanding their marketing and sales departments. Trifork is also becoming the European distributor of the Riak database.
Coverage
- Trifork signs agreement with Basho Technologies, Inc.
- Basho raises $7.5M to expand NoSQL database sales
- NoSQL consolidation begins… — Too much information
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As a side note, I’m starting to learn what news embargos mean: it is the deadline that in the rush for getting eye balls is never respected. ↩
Original title and link: Basho Raises Funding for Expanding Market Reach (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Saturday, 8 January 2011
IA Ventures: We’re All About Big Data
IA Ventures was founded on the belief that managing and extracting value from massive, occasionally unstructured, often real-time data sets is a competitive advantage.
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We invest in talented early stage teams fueling this revolution with the development of innovative tools, technologies and analytics for managing and extracting value from big-data—both structured and unstructured.
50 mil. awaiting to be invested in Big Data companies.
Original title and link: IA Ventures: We’re All About Big Data (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
MongoDB: Agile + Scaling
A short round up of MongoDB pros through the eyes of Albert Wenger, a VC (!):
As I wrote last week, I created Preditter as a project to use some of the technologies that we have invested in. […] Up today: MongoDB (which has been created by the team at 10gen). Here too, I was blown away by the ease of getting going.
Summarized:
- easiness to get started
- the “beauty” of the document model
Personally, I’d say this list should be quite a bit longer. But what I’d really be interested to hear is what are the minuses/threats a VC sees in MongoDB.
Original title and link: MongoDB: Agile + Scaling (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://continuations.com/post/1132025316/mongodb-agile-scaling
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
VC Perspective on BigData and NoSQL Databases
Fantastic overview of the BigData and NoSQL databases market from a VC:
[…] Though many companies in the Fortune 1000 are starting to experiment with Hadoop, today only 10-20% of enterprises need big data solutions. This number could grow as high as 40-50% in 5 years.
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Too many NoSQL database companies have already been created (Cloudera, 10gen, MongoDB, VoltDB, CouchDB, etc). While the user interest in such databases is increasing (many Fortune 1000 companies have started Hadoop evaluation projects), the market won’t be able to sustain them. I expect to see significant consolidation in the next 3-5 years.
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For no reason apparent to me, NoSQL database companies are trying to reinvent the data warehousing and business intelligence infrastructures that have been created over the years.
Note also the fantastic BigData definition:
The data in these sets is at the terabyte or petabyte scale, it is semi-structured, highly distributed, and much of it is of unknown value so it must be processed quickly to identify the interesting parts to keep.
VC Perspective on BigData and NoSQL Databases originally posted on the NoSQL blog: myNoSQL
via: http://blog.tridentcap.com/2010/07/thoughts-on-big-data.html
