MixPanel Now Allows Developers To Offer Realtime Analytics To Users

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Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Friday, November 5th, 2010

We’re big fans of Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include Y Combinator, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin. The startup, which tracks over 1 billion actions per month, allows developers to track a variety of user actions, including the number of pages a user has viewed, iPhone app analytics, interactions on Facebook apps and email analytics. Today, the startup is allowing developers and businesses to offer MixPanel’s analytics to their customers.

The MixPanel Platform essentially gives websites a plug and play analytics offering for their users. Developers insert a few lines of code, and then users can access MixPanel’s variety of realtime analytics for their services. The platform offers the ability to track how many comments, subscribers, likes, shares, and page views users are getting. MixPanel will place all of this data on a dashboard for a business’ users to check and monitor.

For example, Yammer, which recently extended its own platform to developers, has been using MixPanel help its developers gain insight into how their applications are doing. For example, Yammer wanted to show its developers how their applications are gaining adoption amongst the Yammer community, and used the platform to show how many page views and downloads apps were receiving.

Currently the platform is being used by Yammer, Olark and BitTorrent to offer analytics to users. Another potential distributor could be Posterous (who already uses MixPanel internally); the blogging platform could offer the analytics to users.

Company: Mixpanel
Website: mixpanel.com
Launch Date: 2009
Funding: $12M

Mixpanel is the most advanced analytics platform for mobile & web. It helps businesses grow by helping them understand how their users behave and use their products by tracking actions people take rather than page views. Mixpanel’s mission is to help the world learn from its data.

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