Big data venture capital

• SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.
(Huffington Post)
• Bain Capital Ventures and angels including Chris Dixon gave Raj a $5 million Series A in February 2009 to recruit a team of geniuses capable of tackling the serious big data technology problem.
(TechCrunch)
• We just saw a lot of need for it because these massive scalable data sets were just becoming too big." Diana Samuels covers technology, cleantech, biotech and venture capital. Her phone number is 408.299.1835.
(The Business Journal)
• Mu Sigma, a big data analytics specialist firm providing data scientists to companies including major insurers, Microsoft, Dell and Walmart, has attracted more than $133 million in venture capital funding.
(Forbes)
• Use the right tools where the need is." The rise of big data also has the full attention of the venture capital community, Deloitte notes in its report.
(SmartPlanet.com)
• and automate digital marketing initiatives to turn Big Data into profitable actions. DataXus executive team unites leading executives in digital media with MIT technologists.
(Yahoo Finance)
• prepared by the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers using data from Thomson Reuters. The big story was software as a service -- very hot, said Debby Farrington of StarVest Partners, speaking of the MoneyTree findings.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• The data indicate that not all of [the money] is new capital flowing into Asia," said Aradhna Dayal, Editor of AsiaHedge in a statement.
(Wall Street Journal)
• Pier began his career at GE Capital and Rolls-Royce Capital before U.K. It has received investment from Roger Ehrenberg from IA Ventures, a fund that is focused exclusively on Big Data, and Mark Suster from GRP Partners.
(msnbc.com)