The firm said Thursday that it was selling its stake in Bloomberg L.P., the news and data company founded by Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, as well as its controlling interest in Financial Data Services.
The three-year-old Free our Data campaign – founded by myself and the Guardian's technology editor Charles Arthur – will welcome Cameron's re-stated promise to publish every item of government spending over £25,000 and raw data to allow communities to build their own crime maps and councils' performance data in a standard format.
Alongside Lutz, Crate Data is founded by CEO Jodok Batlogg and Bernd Dorn.
Qubole, a big data startup founded by former Facebook engineers, and counts Pinterest among its top customers, also looked interesting.
Periscope Data was founded by ex-Googler Harry Glaser (now PD's CEO) and former Microsoft program manager Tom O'Neill back in 2012.
Venture capital firm Battery Ventures this morning announced that it has made an investment in Continuuity, a stealth 'big data' startup founded by Battery entrepreneur-in-residence Todd Papaioannou (formerly VP and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo).
Tracxn, which aspires to be the "Gartner of startup data," was founded by former Sequoia Capital analyst Neha Singh and former Accel Partners associate Abhishek Goyal, differentiates from other startup analytics firms by teaching clients about markets before taking a closer look at individual companies to help them identify potential investment opportunities.
Last year, DIUx awarded $104 million to 48 prototype projects at companies such as Adobe, software development firm Pivotal and Palantir, a big-data company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.
Data Elite was founded by Tasso Argyros, founder of Aster Data, which sold to Teradata for $300 million in 2011, as well as Stamos Venios, who has held M&A and investment positions with companies in Europe and Israel.
Now, these two disparate art forms have come together in the form of Data Cuisine, a deliciously informative project founded by data visualization artist Moritz Stefaner, who previously worked on the epic data exploration of selfies, SelfieCity.
A Series of Profiles of Innovators Operating at the Intersection of Consumer Behavior and Business Transformation: Kevin Krim, CEO, EDO, a data science company founded by Edward Norton, Daniel Nadler and Jim Breyer.
