Silk is a visualization, analysis, and publishing web platform. We help users use data from simple spreadsheets, and create powerful and interactive visualizations.
We're at the forefront of the burgeoning trend that helps users manage the explosion of information that is generated digitally.
We're at the forefront of the burgeoning trend that helps users manage the explosion of information that is generated digitally.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Total raised: $1.6M
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 07.10.2013 | Seed | $1.6M | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
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| 13.08.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 8/13/16 | Palantir bought Silk; Randstad acquired Monster; Walmart purchased Jet Palantir, a provider of a suite of software applications for integrating and analyzing data, acquired data publishing platform Silk. No financial terms of the deal were ... |
| 10.08.2016 | Peter Thiel’s Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Palantir Technologies, the secretive data company... |
| 10.08.2016 | Palantir acquires data publishing platform Silk | Silk will continue to operate in its current state, but the team will be coming to work at Palantir Palantir, the Peter Thiel-backed company which offers a suite of software applications for integrating and analyzing data, seems to be looki... |
| 10.08.2016 | Peter Thiel’s Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk | Palantir Technologies, the secretive data company cofounded by Peter Thiel, has acquired a data visualization and publishing startup called Silk, the startup announced today. Following the deal, the team behind Silk will join Palantir and l... |
| 10.08.2016 | Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk | Silk‘s co-founder and CEO, Salar al Khafaji, announced today that private data analytics unicorn Palantir would be acquiring the company. The transaction appears to be an acqui-hire, with members of the Silk team directly joining Palantir i... |
| 10.06.2016 | Higher-Ed Hacks of the Week: Silk, Wikiwand, Omnity | Silk—a web-based data visualization platform. Users upload data in a ‘silk’ which organizes and visualizes the data for them to explore. They can publish and share visualizations (view galleries here.) Silk offers a free version or a premiu... |
| 18.02.2016 | To Prevent Another Flint, Make All Open Data Machine Readable | Alex Salkever Contributor Alex Salkever is the CMO at Silk.co. The lead poisoning of the entire city of Flint, Michigan was preventable and should never have happened. Numerous pundits and industry experts have said this. Most of them, howe... |
| 10.06.2015 | Data, Startups And Doing Things That Matter | Salar al Khafaji Contributor Salar al Khafaji is co-founder and CEO of Silk.co. Prominent voices in tech journalism are criticizing the global startup community for building software products and services that cater to the 1 percent or have... |
| 05.04.2015 | Data: Best programming talent in the world is not in California | If you had to name the best place in the world to find top programmer talent, you’d probably say California, right? But we recently found some compelling data that shows that’s not the case. In fact, not only does California not rank as the... |
| 17.03.2015 | This new interactive gallery shows you every version of the Apple Watch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. With the Apple Watch set to go on sale in just a few weeks, you’ve got some tough choices to make and could probably use a little guida... |
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