business intelligence

LLMs are poised to make lumbering business intelligence tools easier and faster to use

UK startup Fluent has closed a $7.5M seed round to apply LLMs to business databases, making them far easier to interrogate.

TextQL aims to add AI-powered intelligence on top of business data

Mark Hay and Ethan Ding want to make every corporate decision a data-driven one. Ambitious? For certain. But the two engineers, who met a few years ago during the pandemic, are nothing if not optimist

Datalogz raises $5M to deal with your business intelligence sprawl

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of business intelligence tools that aim to help companies make critical business decisions based on data analytics. There’s a catch. As data adopt

AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation

Market intelligence — where organizations gather information about industries, other businesses, trends and more in order to use that data to help make business decisions — has become a hu

Tracer nabs $18.1m to aggregate and normalize business data

Tracer, a platform that attempts to consolidate an organization’s data sources and enrich them with business insights, today announced that it raised $18.1 million in a Series A funding round co

Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon

Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, with its marketplace outpacing everyone else when it comes to gross merchandise value, reach and market capitalization. That fact inevitably makes i

Zenlytic develops commerce-specific, self-serve business intelligence tool

Zenlytic helps commerce companies corral their customer acquisition, conversion and retention software into one tool without needing a data team. 

Coefficient wants to bring live data into your existing spreadsheets

With the explosive adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, the average company now has more than 100 SaaS apps to manage — leading to data being siloed across countless different systems.

Y42 wants to become mission control for your data pipelines

When Berlin-based Y42 launched in 2020, its focus was mostly on orchestrating data pipelines for business intelligence. That mission has expanded quite a bit over the course of the last couple of year

Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand

At its Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced that it is unifying all of its business intelligence products under the Looker brand. Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker closed ba

Coalesce lands fresh capital to transform data at ‘enterprise scale’

Coalesce is a startup that offers data transformation tools geared mainly toward enterprise customers. Today the company closed a $26 million Series A funding round led by Emergence Capital with parti

Bainbridge Growth wants e-commerce brands to stop sales guessing game

The company gathers sales data for financial modeling and forecasting to track progress, show planned value and then value in real-time.

Sightfull, a startup that tracks key business activities, raises $18M

In late 2020, developers Noam Liran and Alex Litvak were inspired to create a platform that applied automation concepts from security to the business analytics space. Drawing on their experiences in c

Xeneta makes a splash with $80M on a $265M valuation to scale its crowdsourced sea and air freight analytics

The wheels of global commerce continue to turn, through wars, pandemics and economic downturns; and today a startup taking a new tech approach to improve the workings of one of the more antiquated asp

How Zoho became a $1B company without a dime of external investment…

What if you could grow a $1 billion company without the outside investment, the crazy sales and marketing spend, the pressure to grow ever faster?

Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding

For any journalist who has ever googled their name, or for anyone else who has ever googled a journalist’s name, there is a good chance that one of the top hits will be for Muck Rack, a database

4 principles private capital firms should follow to win the talent race

When your second-most important asset walks out the door (physical or virtual) every day, attracting and keeping that talent in-house is paramount.

Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus, the popular open source ve

Omni looks to take on Looker with its cloud-powered BI platform

There’s been an explosion of business intelligence (BI) tools in recent years, or tools that analyze and convert raw data into info for use in decision making. Investments in them are on the ris

To optimize for growth, study your down-funnel metrics

You've managed to acquire a million users. Amazing. But if 999,999 of them don’t make it through the funnel, or churn, now that’s not so amazing.
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