Seattle, US-based customer relationship management (CRM) company Stride has been acquired by KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg founders Neil Patel and Hiten Shan, who plan to market the service and make it easier to use.
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Verint to add Silicon Valley's KANA Software in $514M deal
New York-based analytics software solutions provider Verint Systems plans to acquire Silicon Valley-based customer service solutions developer KANA Software in a deal valued at $514 million.
California's CoreLogic acquires catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT
Irvine, California-based business analytics firm CoreLogic bought Oakland, California-based catastrophe risk modeling firm EQECAT for a yet undisclosed sum from its parent company ABS Group.
590 venture-backed US companies could be IPO candidates next year - report
Research firm CB Insights revealed in its latest report that IPO activity will most likely be the most active in the technology sector as over 500 companies have healthy trajectories and high valuations.
California analytics firm Tidemark secures $1M in funding
California, US-based business applications vendor Tidemark has raised more than $1 million in a new funding round, according to a filing submitted to the US regulators.
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San Mateo, California-based big data analytics firm Datameer raised $19 million in a Series D funding round led by Next World Capital that brings its total funding to $36.6 million.
Boston-based firm Curoverse secured $1.5 from a seed funding round to develop and commercialize its private beta technology that helps biomedical researchers in storing and analyzing human genetic data.
Massachussetts, US-based mobile data analytics firm Trinity Pharma Solutions announced raising $15 million in a growth round led by Health Enterprise Partners for its expansion in New Jersey and California.
An infographic shows that investors have invested $3.6 billion in 2013 in companies focused on big data, comprising close to three quarters of the money poured into these firms from 2008 to 2012.
Marketing personalization startup Sailthru announced the conclusion of its $20 million Series C funding round led by Scale Venture Partners and participated by Benchmark, RRE, DFJ Gotham, AOL Ventures and other existing backers.
Texas-based sales analytics firm PROS wants to boost its price-recommendation capabilities by acquiring San Francisco-based predictive analytics company SignalDemand in a deal valued at $13.5 million.
McRock Capital, an investment firm in Toronto, has initially closed its Industrial Internet venture capital fund with $50 million in a round led by BDC Venture Capital.
Massachusetts-based BackOffice Associates has bought Farnborough, UK-based SAP Data Services consultancy firm ENTOTA for an undisclosed amount. Goldman Sachs invested $30 million in BackOffice five years ago.
Bangalore-based big data startup Spire Technogies reportedly secured $8 million in a Series A funding round to help its clients manage talent to expand into Asia and the US.
