By Brady Miller-Wakeham Backed by $7M in funding, startup Boxever wants to convince travel companies to stop treating customers as just a “confirmation number” Startup: Boxever What they do: Boxever has developed real-time customer intelligence technology that enables airlines and travel companies to aggregate and analyze online, offline, and offsite customer data to create stronger,…
With $5.8 in VC backing, NSONE takes on Amazon, UltraDNS Startup: NSONE Inc. What they do: NSONE is developing a next-gen DNS-based advanced traffic management platform that utilizes infrastructure, network, and application data to make intelligent routing decisions in real-time. Headquarters: New York City CEO: Dr. Kristopher Beevers. Before NSONE, Kris built CDN, cloud,…
Backed by $77M of VC funding, startup DataSift seeks to unlock data trapped Facebook and other social networks By Brady Miller-Wakeham Startup: DataSift What they do: DataSift unifies all human data (including social media, news, blogs, videos and more) – real-time and historical – in one place, processing the information, unlocking its meaning, and delivering…
You may have noticed that’s it’s been a few months since we’ve posted new coverage of tech startups here on Startup50. We’ve been busy working on other projects (more on that soon too), and we’ll be relaunching the site, slowly but surely, with new coverage, new features, and even new services. Stay tuned . ….
Businesses of all sizes can go mobile quickly and cost-effectively with BuildFire’s DIY Mobile App Development Platform Startup: BuildFire What they do: Provide an easy-to-use, DIY mobile app building platform. Headquarters: Newport Beach CA Founders: Ian Blair and Nathan Keating, who previously teamed up to found Kaleo Apps. Founded: 2013 Funding: They’re currently backed…
Startup: Cognitive Scale What they do: Provide a “cognitive computing cloud platform” that accelerates the value of Big Data. Headquarters: Austin, TX CEO: Akshay Sabhikhi. He was previously the global leader for IBM Smarter Care, where he led IBM’s entry into a new market at the intersection of social and health. Prior to this role…
If you’ve attended CES recently, you’ve surely noticed that the week is slowly but surely getting longer. Sunday and Monday used to be set-up days, which we journalists could safely ignore. Not so these days, with ancillary events like the AT&T Developers Forum and Startup Debut convincing me I had to devote yet more time…
I met with a ton of startups during CES this year, and over the course of the next week or two, I’ll spotlight several of my favorites here on Startup50. First up is the startup Voxeet. Early one evening, weary from nonstop meetings and the chaos of the show floor, I sat down with Voxeet…
If you’ve ever attended CES, you know it’s a zoo. The official numbers haven’t been released yet for this year, but to me (and most everyone I talked to), 2015 felt even busier and more crowded than past years. Last year was itself a circus with more than 160,000 attendees from 140+ countries, wading through…
Startup: HashiCorp What they do: Provide software that manages the application delivery process on any infrastructure. Headquarters: San Francisco, CA CEO: Mitchell Hashimoto. While still in college, this 25-year-old entrepreneur created Vagrant, a tool for building and distributing development environments. Today, Vagrant is used by millions of people worldwide, from individuals to the Fortune 500….
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