InfoChimps.com

http://www.infochimps.com/

Last activity: 06.08.2013

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Total raised

$3.98M

Funding Rounds 2

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Nov 8, 2010	Funding round	$1.2M

Mentions in press and media 28

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May 15, 2013	TechStars Arrives In Austin, Will Launch First Program In August	TechStars, the popular startup accelerator with locations in Boston, Boulder, New York, Seattle, London, and more, has today announced an expansion to Austin, Texas – a city TechStars founder and CEO David Cohen refers to as the “natural ne...
Feb 22, 2013	Infochimps Raises $2.78 Million	Infochimps raises $2.78 million of a $3 million offering, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Austin Business Journal reported the “filing is an update to an April 2012 report in which the company rec...
Dec 17, 2012	Infochimps Launches Enterprise Cloud For Big Data Analytics	Clouds, clouds, everywhere there are clouds. Here’s one more to file in your cloud list from Infochimps that’s all about big data. Infochimps Enterprise Cloud is the kind of service you won’t see any time soon from an enterprise behemoth li...
Oct 27, 2012	Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies	Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting. Those initial investments will in turn trigger a do...
Sep 30, 2012	Data Markets: The Emerging Data Economy	Editor’s note: Gil Elbaz is an entrepreneur and pioneer of natural language technology. In 1998, he co-founded Applied Semantics, which developed contextual advertising products, including ASI’s AdSense. In 2003, Google acquired ASI, and af...
Aug 1, 2012	Content Crunching App Silk Raises $1.6 Million Seed Round	Silk, makers of a free web-based personal database/content crunching app, today announced a $1.6 million seed funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Atomico, Anil Hansjee, Jens Christensen and Philippe ...
Apr 9, 2012	New Analytics Dashboard for Infochimps.com	This morning the Big Data online marketplace vendor Infochimps announces a new analytics dashboard for their services called Dashpot. Dashpot lets users configure their dashboard with exactly the information they need. For example, users ca...
Feb 28, 2012	ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps	Back in October, ReportGrid closed a $750K seed round with investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman — not long after it graduated from TechStars’ summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportG...
Feb 23, 2012	Austin-based Infochimps announces new cloud-based data platform	Austin-based Infochimps, a data marketplace, has announced a new product, the Infochimps Platform for big data. The Infochimps Platform allow companies to create and manage big data sets faster and cheaper, according to its news release. In...
Jan 23, 2012	Nimble Goes After Salesforce, Wants To Be The “Pandora Of Contacts”	Jon Ferrara thinks Salesforce is doing it wrong when it comes to social. The founder of Goldmine, a CRM company he sold for $100 million nearly a decade ago, is attacking the market a different way with his latest startup, Nimble. “We are e...
Oct 18, 2011	Twitter Challenger Chime.in is Ugly as Sin, Designers Say	Bill Gross is the man who made the technology behind the first keyword advertising systems online and has long been rumored to be aiming to challenge Twitter. Today Gross launched a big, ambitious new social network called Chime.in. The ser...
Sep 12, 2011	Eight startups to watch from Demo Day in Austin
Sep 8, 2011	An explosion of entrepreneurship at Demo Day 2011	Like a hungry mob at an all you can eat buffet, people gorged themselves on entrepreneurship information Wednesday at the third annual Capital Factory Demo Day 2011. The day-long event at the AT&T Conference Center in downtown Austin ki...
Sep 7, 2011	Infochimps Acquires Tweet Curation Startup Keepstream	Data marketplace Infochimps is announcing the acquisition of Tweet bookmarking service Keepstream this morning, in a deal that was primarily a talent acquisition and stock. The three Austin, Texas-based Keepstream co-founders, Huston Hoburg...
Aug 31, 2011	On Top of the Google: Search Startup Adds Your Friends’ Location Data to Your Search Results	Search tool Wajam is rolling out a new feature today to its browser extension that overlays links shared by your friends on Twitter and Facebook at the top of the page when you perform a search on Google. (Or Bing.) Now Wajam puts a sidebar...
Aug 17, 2011	The Series A Squeeze	Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Nick Ducoff, CEO and co-founder of Infochimps. Series A financings are on the decline. They peaked at 283 in 2007 and are on pace to barely crack 100[1] this year (all data is from CrunchBase th...
Apr 26, 2011	SETI Suspends Its Search For Alien Life	Sad news for astronomy and for alien research, and even worse news if there is in fact intelligent life out there wanting to contact Earth. The SETI Institute, which operates the Allen Telescope Array in northern Californa (made famous in t...
Mar 11, 2011	Via SXSW: Infochimps Shows off New Site, 1000’s of New API Calls	Last night, the folks over at Infochimps, an online data marketplace – or the “Amazon of data,” as they like to call it – were celebrating the launch of their new website and the thousands of new API calls it contains. These API calls are l...
Feb 16, 2011	Visualize Your Data with Google Public Data Explorer	The Google Public Data Explorer takes large data sets and makes them palatable for public consumption, taking numbers, figures and other data and turning them into bar graphs, line graphs, maps and bubbles. When the explorer launched last y...
Feb 14, 2011	API of the Week: The InfoChimps API	Today InfoChimps released Infochimpy, a Python client library for the Infochimps API. It’s based on Tweepy, a Python library for the Twitter API. The Infochimps API, launched last year, gives developers access to the many data sets such as ...
Jan 3, 2011	Big Data Giant Joins InfoChimps to Save the World’s Structured Information	Sometimes highly accomplished people just have to join crazy little startups. It’s always exciting to see what happens when they do. Data scientist Kurt Bollacker is one of those people; he’s decided to join Austin-based bulk data marketpla...
Dec 14, 2010	Data Consolidation: Infochimps Buys YC Startup Data Marketplace	Infochimps, a marketplace for data sets, is announcing the acquisition of Y Combinator-incubated startup and competitor Data Marketplace. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but we understand it was an all-cash deal. As we wrote in our ini...
Nov 12, 2010	Funding roundup - week ending 11/12/10	Too many startups to list, this was definitely a killer week of funding We covered nearly twenty startups and companies raising new venture capital this week, quite possibly a record! So much for a slumping economy. This week, we've separat...
Nov 9, 2010	Linode, Heroku and More Included in Latest Appsumo Bundle – Free Bundles for ReadWriteWeb Readers	AppSumo, which is sort of like GroupOn or MacHeist for web apps, is offering $1,543 worth of credits towards developer tools and services like Linode, Heroku, Recurly and MongoHQ for $47. Most significantly, they’re offering six months of S...
Nov 8, 2010	Infochimps raises $1.2M to sell data sets	Mining data from social networks and polling companies In the digital age, an unprecedented amount of information about potential customers is increasingly available, if you are willing to mine and sort all of it. Or, you could save some ti...
Nov 7, 2010	“Data marketplace” Infochimps raises $1.2M to build out its data offerings	Infochimps, an Austin-based marketplace for lists and other data sets, has raised $1.2 million in its first round of institutional funding. The idea of a “data marketplace” sounds a bit abstract, so Infochimps chief executive Nick Ducoff ga...
Oct 18, 2010	Prepping for Big Data – RedMonk Gets into the Analytics Game	RedMonk is not your standard technology analyst firm.The group are more than report writers. They are bloggers. They are active on the social Web. Their research is public. RedMonk analysts are respected as some of the keenest observers of ...

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FAQ about InfoChimps.com

How much funding has InfoChimps.com raised?

InfoChimps.com has raised $3.98M in total across 2 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has InfoChimps.com raised?

Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of InfoChimps.com, among them a funding round of $1.2M on Nov 8, 2010.

What has the press written about InfoChimps.com?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning InfoChimps.com, among them “TechStars Arrives In Austin, Will Launch First Program In August” (May 15, 2013) and “Infochimps Raises $2.78 Million” (Feb 22, 2013).

Is InfoChimps.com still active?

Yes, InfoChimps.com is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 6, 2013.