Tag: startup
‘Scary Signs’ from Tech Startup-Ville, Crunchbase Says
Venture capital investment in the tech startup ecosystem is plummeting, particularly in the seed and early stage funding rounds, industry watcher Crunchbase says in its monthly report issued today. Investors ponied up Read more…
Inside Nextdata’s Plans for a Data Mesh Offering
Organizations that are struggling to build data products in a controlled and repeatable fashion may want to keep an eye on Zhamak Dehghani’s startup Nextdata, which is currently developing software that will automate m Read more…
Data Mesh Creator Takes Next Data Step
Zhamak Dehghani, who is credited with popularizing the data mesh concept, announced earlier this month the founding of Nextdata. The new outfit will develop software designed to help customers implement “data product c Read more…
A Personal Data Discovery Solution Powered by ML
Thanks to GDPR and other data regulations, companies are required to have a certain degree of insight and control of the data they collect and store about individual people, or risk paying hefty fines. But getting the ne Read more…
Unstructured Data Miners Chase Silver with Deep Learning
The traditional approach to mining unstructured data typically involves training machine learning models upon high-quality "gold standard" data that's been meticulously groomed. But thanks to innovations in deep learning Read more…
Israeli VC Firm to Target Tech Startups
Two veteran Israeli investors have teamed up to create Aleph, a new VC firm that aims to provide early-stage financial support to Israeli startups. The firm reportedly has put together its first fund, with a target of more than $140 million. Big data, cloud, and mobile application startups in the country are slated to be early beneficiaries of the fund. Read more…
Five Interesting Startups at Strata
Innovation was on display this week at the O’Reilly Strata conference in Santa Clara, as the show hosted its Startup Showcase. Take a look the five that we found the most interesting and worth having on our collective radars. Read more…
Mortar Takes Aim at Hadoop Usability
Young startup Mortar claims to make Hadoop more accessible to the people most responsible for garnering insight from big data: data scientists and engineers. The effort took flight with a couple of architects at Wireless Generation breaking off and starting their own company in Young and CTO Doug Daniels... Read more…
Alpine Data Climbs Analytics Mountain
Startup Alpine Data Labs recognized the recent changes in database and HPC technologies and has capitalized on the need to update antiquated data mining techniques. This week the company's head discussed some of the challenges of the.... Read more…