37 YC Startups Valued Over $40m Revisited

37 YC Funded Companies Valued Over $40m is a post I wrote about a month ago.  Six of the 37 companies valued over $40 million dollars were exits.  I omitted any guess as to the remaining 31 companies.  Since writing that, I’ve noted exits of seven additional companies.  I’ve also done some quick research as to […]

Big Data is Big Business

Consider the companies selling big data products: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, EMC.  Generally speaking, big data refers to extremely large volumes of unstructured data.  Such data is also called “dark data“, because it results in missed opportunities when not put to immediate use.  Problem is not enough talented people are working on big data.  And that means the market […]

Companies

General Description
Mixpanel

Batch:
ycs09

Location:
San Francisco

CrunchBase:
mixpanel

Hacker News:
suhail

Status:
live

Market:
tools, data visualization, and big data
Mixpanel is a real-time service that helps improve internet applications by tracking how users interact & engage with them.
Segment.io

Batch:
ycs11

Location:

CrunchBase:
segment-io

Hacker News:
n/a

Status:
live

Market:
tools, data visualization, and big data
Segment.io is an API that lets developers integrate once, and then send their data to any service. Segment.io currently supports 20 different providers, including Google, KISSmetrics, Mixpanel, Chartbeat, HubSpot, and Salesforce.