The Google Analytics For Business Data, Chart.io, Raises $3.2 Million

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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

Monday, October 31st, 2011
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Y-Combinator-backed Chart.io, a startup that gives businesses access to enterprise level analytics tools for databases, has raised $3.15 million in a Series A funding led by
Avalon Ventures with Bullpen Capital participating. This round brings the company’s total funding to $4.38 million.

Founded in 2010 by David Beyer and Dave Fowler, Chart.io is a “Google Analytics for Business Data,” that helps companies analyze and track their critical data in real time.

As we’ve reported in the past, while there are plenty of solutions for database analytics, they’re costly and not as easy as Chart.io, which works by pulling data out of your database with your permission, loading it onto a web dashboard from which you can create charts from multiple data streams. Because it’s web based you can have a group of people view the results through a permalink instead of emailing an Excel file.

Chart.io connects to a businesses’ internal databases and lets anyone in a company easily create real-time visualizations of important business data. The company plans to support the major data technologies companies rely on including SQL databases, web services, and NoSQL data sources.


Company: Chartio
Website: chartio.com
Launch Date: June 2010
Funding: $4.44M

Chartio helps businesses analyze and track their critical data. Over the past decade, the Business Intelligence industry has failed to deliver affordable and easy-to-use solutions. Instead, most vendors sell bulky on-premise products that are nearly impossible to understand, take ages to deploy and in many cases, fail to deliver value. It’s time for a change. Focused on building the best interface for data, Chartio helps companies make better business decisions through intuitive, real-time business analytics. Customers connect their databases...

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