Infochimps
Founded Year
2009Stage
Acquired | AcquiredTotal Raised
$5.32MAbout Infochimps
Infochimps offers a big data infrastructure that aims to allow customers to scalably and affordably ingest data from their legacy databases, data feeds, data from the web, or the Infochimps' Data Marketplace and aims to make it useful with algorithm hosting, Elastic Hadoop, and in-stream data augmentation. In August 2013, Infochimps was acquired by CSC. The valuation of Infochimps was undisclosed. Other terms of the deal were not released.
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Latest Infochimps News
Jan 19, 2016
Jim Kaskade, the founder and CEO of Austin-based Infochimps , is leaving the company, a little bit over two years after the acquisition of the company by CSC. According to Kaskade, in a personal blog post , the move comes as the company continues to grow. Kaskade said he is leaving due to a desire to find a role which requires more leadership and less management, where he can focus more on disruption and leadership rather than managing an existing business.
Infochimps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
When was Infochimps founded?
Infochimps was founded in 2009.
Where is Infochimps's headquarters?
Infochimps's headquarters is located at 1214 W 6th St., Austin.
What is Infochimps's latest funding round?
Infochimps's latest funding round is Acquired.
How much did Infochimps raise?
Infochimps raised a total of $5.32M.
Who are the investors of Infochimps?
Investors of Infochimps include Computer Sciences Corporation, ff Venture Capital, Mercury Fund, Stage One Capital, Anduin Ventures and 3 more.
Who are Infochimps's competitors?
Competitors of Infochimps include Timetric and 2 more.
- Predict emerging trends
- See competitors' playbooks
- Stalk the smart money
- Identify tomorrow's challengers
- Spot growing industries
- Kill analyst data work
Compare Infochimps to Competitors
Data Marketplace makes it easy for people to find, buy and sell data online.
Datamarket specializes in providing easy access to and visually displaying data from both public and private firms.
Timetric is a global provider of online market data, analysis and advisory services to the Insurance, Construction and Infrastructure sectors. The company's integrated intelligence services provide thousands of companies around the world with the data, insight and analysis that empowers them to make the right strategic decisions at the right time.
Based in San Francisco, Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was spun out of Applied Minds, Inc in July, 2005 to build a better infrastructure for the Web. MetaWeb aims to allow publishers to get content from the webs best sources. Metaweb was also behind Freebase, a community-driven structured data product aiming to capture and create an entity graph of people, places and things.
Socrata is the cloud software company focused exclusively on democratizing access to data in government. The company helps government leaders improve transparency, modernize citizen and developer access to information, and bring facts into every decision, with speed and cost savings. Delivered as turnkey cloud services, Socrata's data consumerization products unlock data in enterprise silos and transform it into useful information that everyone can easily access, visualize, share and reuse.
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