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DataSift

DataSift enables organizations to identify and extract valuable insights from all types of human-generated data in real-time.

United States, North America Disrupt SF 2010

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Founded Date

2010

Industries
Analytics Big Data Dev Tools Geolocation
Operating Status

Acquired

Website

www.datasift.com

Founders

Nick Halstead Founder

News About DataSift

Security

InfoSum raises $65M Series B as organizations embrace secure data sharing

Carly Page

InfoSum, a London-based startup that provides a decentralized platform for secure data sharing between organizations, has secured a $65 million Series B funding round led by Chrysalis Investments. The investment comes less than a year after InfoSum closed a $15.1 million Series A round co-led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures. Since, the data privacy […]

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Media & Entertainment

Meltwater has acquired DataSift to double down on social media analytics

Ingrid Lunden

In a week when all eyes are on Facebook and the subject of how data about us on social media platforms gets used without us knowing, there’s been some consolidation afoot in the world of media-based big data services. DataSift, the London-based company that pulls data from conversations across social, news and blog platforms, anonymises it, […]

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Media & Entertainment

DataSift connects with LinkedIn as its latest social marketing partner

Ingrid Lunden

DataSift, which taps and structures data from social networks to provide more insights into it, has added a new partner to its own network. The company has linked up with LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with 467 million users that was acquired by Microsoft recently for $26.2 billion — to help develop a stronger […]

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Nick Halstead, Founder Of Big Data Analytics Firm DataSift, Steps Down As CEO

Ingrid Lunden

Another big change for DataSift — the UK startup that applies analytics to social network data firehoses to surface trends, which had a notable break up with Twitter earlier this year. Nick Halstead, who founded the company in 2010, is stepping down as CEO. Halstead will be replaced by Tim Barker, DataSift’s chief product officer. In a blog post announcing the […]

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Datasift Expands Its Reach With New Pulsar Deal To Make Facebook Topic Data Bigger

Mike Butcher

Datasift, which has raised a total of $77.9 million to date, is partnering with social analytics platform Pulsar to make anonymized Facebook topic data available to any brands, government, charities and businesses. Last year Datasift did a Secondary Market raise of $6.2M from Upfront Ventures. This new deal shows Datasift is pushing hard to become […]

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The Valley Of The Sith Lords

Danny Crichton

Twitter just gave the bird to startups, and I am not talking about their logo. By now, you have probably heard that Twitter is going to cut off third-party access to its firehose of data. DataSift, one of several startups that rely on this access for their business, are now scrambling to reassure customers that […]

Enterprise

Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business

Ingrid Lunden

In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas like advertising and commerce, but a move made late Friday night points to another area where the company is setting its sights: big data analytics. Twitter announced that it will be terminating agreements with third parties for reselling firehose data — […]

Media & Entertainment

Facebook Finally Lets Its Firehose Be Tapped For Marketing Insights Thanks To DataSift

Josh Constine

Twitter's firehose of tweets has long been offered as a goldmine for businesses trying to understand how to improve or market their products, and now Facebook will allow privacy-safe peeks at its treasure trove, too. Today Facebook launched a new insights product called "Topic Data" in the U.S. and U.K. with the help of brand analytics leader DataSift.

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Gillmor Gang: Action Items

Steve Gillmor

The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Semil Shah, Danny Sullivan, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — played the latest favorite game of the Mobility Addicted. It's called Lock Screen, and some of us think it's where the early adopters meet the great unvarnished Silent Majority. Forget clicks or swipes or doing anything; it's all about glancing. What this means is that social scientists need to figure out how to measure the impact of a push notification as it flashes on the lock screen, that ephemeral moment when a prioritized message makes it upstream enough to be born in the pool of the Now. It's couch potato politics at the Wearables. Who's making the popcorn?

Enterprise

DataSift Launches Vedo To Help Enterprises Channel The Big Social Data Firehose

Ingrid Lunden

DataSift has built a reputation as a provider of Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr firehoses -- streams of unstructured data from those and dozens of other social sources, which can then be used in applications to track larger user sentiment and other trends. Today, DataSift is ramping up its presence in the big data game with the launch of Vedo, a processing engine that automates some of those functions usually performed by data scientists to make sense of that firehose data.

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Firehose Provider DataSift Raises $42M Led By Insight Venture Partners For Global and Non-Social Ambitions

Ingrid Lunden

DataSift, a social data platform that provides brands and enterprises with access to content from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and dozens of other social networks, is today announcing a $42 million, Series C round of funding. Rob Bailey, DataSift's CEO, tells me that the company plans to use the new financing for a number of different purposes.

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DataSift Now Offering Historical Social Data Analysis Across Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Bitly & More Combined

Sarah Perez

Fresh on the heels of its deal with Tumblr for access to the Tumblr "firehose," social data platform DataSift is putting that data, and more, to good use with the launch of a new API that performs historical analysis across Twitter, Tumblr, and Bit.ly "firehoses," as well as data pulled from forums, blogs and public Facebook data.

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DataSift Launches Open Source Query Builder, Aims To Embed Social Monitoring In Enterprise Tools

Anthony Ha

Social monitoring startup DataSift is releasing an open source, embeddable version of its Query Builder today, allowing anyone to customize and embed the company's tool for conducting social media searches. Founder and CTO Nick Halstead told me that DataSift's "key differentiator" is its focus on "getting the right answer," rather than just overwhelming its customers with data. The Query Builder is an important part of that, allowing customers to create highly specific searches using a visual interface, with no coding required. (The company says it monitors "billions of public social conversations on Twitter, leading social networks and millions of other sources," and that it provides access to both historical and real-time data.)

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DataSift’s March On Wall Street Continues — Launches Social Feeds For Stock Symbols

Steve O'Hear

DataSift, the ‘social data platform’ that provides developers and third parties with the ability to access and interrogate Twitter, Facebook and other real-time social sources, is continuing its march on Wall Street: The company has launched DataSift Financial, a prepackaged historical and real-time social feed designed to help the finance industry to identify and analyze stock and company information so that they can make more informed trading decisions -- faster! Not dissimilar to Twitter's own 'Cashtags', which in turn were inspired by StockTwits, the new social feeds aggregate public tweets that mention a stock symbol, and classify tweets to identify articles from news-providers, positive or negative mentions, and "chatter" from market analysts.

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Social Data Platform DataSift Sets Targets On Wall Street; Hires Financial Vets, Opens New York Office

Steve O'Hear

DataSift, the 'social data platform' that provides developers and third parties with the ability to access and interrogate Twitter, Facebook and other real-time social sources, is doubling down on its Wall Street play today. The company is announcing the hiring of two financial veterans, along with the opening of a Madison Avenue, New York office. It's been pitching its wares as a way for fund managers to get the upper hand for a quite a while now, so this latest move shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Robert Passarella, previously of Dow Jones, has been appointed as DataSift's Managing Director of Finance where he'll lead the company's financial industry initiatives and build on its existing financial product offerings. Paul Balser, who joins from StockTwits, is taking up the role of DataSift's new Managing Director of Financial Institutions Sales, and will be responsible for the company's institutional relationships.

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DataSift Raises $7.2M For Powerful Social Data Analysis And Business Intelligence Platform

Leena Rao

DataSift, a data analysis company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, has raised $7.2 million in a follow-on Series A round from existing investors GRP Partners and IA Ventures. This brings DataSift's total funding to $15 million. For background, developers, businesses, media companies and organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter firehose of social data, as well as Facebook, YouTube, blogs, forums and online message boards. But what makes DataSift special is that it can sort through billions of social interactions then filter this social media data for demographic information, online influence and sentiment, either positive or negative.

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DataSift Teams Up With NewsCred For Deep Data Analysis Of Social Media And News Content

Leena Rao

DataSift, a data analysis company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, is teaming up with NewsCred to allow clients to perform deep data analysis and monitoring of social media and news sources. For background, developers, businesses, media companies and organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter firehose of social data, as well as Facebook and other sources. But what makes DataSift special is that it can then filter this social media data for demographic information, online influence and sentiment, either positive or negative. As we've reported in the past, DataSift does not limit searches based on keywords and allows companies of any size to define extremely complex filters, including location, gender, sentiment, language, and even influence based on Klout score, to provide quick and very specific insight and analysis.

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DataSift Unlocks Access To Historical Twitter Data Dating Back To January 2010

Leena Rao

DataSift, one of Twitter's data partners which currently provides developers and third parties with access to the full Twitter firehose in realtime, is about to unlock a whole new set of Twitter data to the ecosystem. The social data platform has launched Historics, a cloud-computing platform that enables entrepreneurs and enterprises to extract business insights from Twitter’s public Tweets dating back to January 2010 (we originally reported on the pending launch here). Developers, businesses and organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter firehose of social data. But what makes DataSift special (besides the premier access to Twitter data) is that it can then filter this social media data for demographic information, online influence and sentiment, either positive or negative. As we've reported in the past, DataSift does not limit searches based on keywords and allows companies of any size to define extremely complex filters, including location, gender, sentiment, language, and even influence based on Klout score, to provide quick and very specific insight and analysis.

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DataSift Launches Powerful Twitter Data Analysis And Business Intelligence Platform

Leena Rao

DataSift, a big data business intelligence and analysis platform for Twitter, is finally opening its doors today to the U.S. public. DataSift was born out of Tweetmeme and was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco a year ago. Founded by Nick Halstead, DatSift is one of two companies with rights to re-syndicate Twitter's firehose of more than 250 million Tweets a day (the other one is Gnip). Developers, businesses and organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter firehose of social data. But what makes DataSift special (besides the premier access to Twitter data) is that it can then filter this social media data for demographic information, online influence and sentiment, either positive or negative.

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DataSift Founder Passes CEO Torch On To Former SimpleGeo VP Rob Bailey

Robin Wauters

Nick Halstead, who founded 'big data' startup DataSift, has decided to step down as chief executive officer as the company gears up for its official launch later this week. Halstead will become DataSift's CTO, and the role of CEO will go to Rob Bailey, a former Yahoo bizdev exec who most recently served as VP of Business Development at SimpleGeo, which was just acquired by Urban Airship.