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Big data is attracting a lot of venture

capital. Of the many startups claiming
big data as their business, who has
received the most funding so far?
CrunchAnalytics (which I wrote about
here) provides an answer based on data
from CrunchBase, showing us where VCs are placing their biggest
bets:

Cloudera (5 rounds)
$141 million
Hadoop-based software, services and training
MuSigma (1)
Data-Science-as-a-Service
Opera Solutions (1)
as-a-Service

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The 40 startups included in the CrunchAnalytics database have raised about

$1.2 billion in venture capital. And although the amount of money invested

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