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With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand

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If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. The founders of Zing Data recognized this fundamental problem with data access, and they went to work building a mobile application that would let users get into the data themselves.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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In data analysis you want to look for “primary&# research, which means the person who initially gathered the data. But all of the data projections were so different so I decided to call some of the research companies and ask how they derived their data. Nobody was surprised. I wish it ended there.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

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And so are most startup CEOs for that matter. When my pal Dave started his venture fund, 500 Startups, he was ridiculed. How can anybody do 500 startups?”. Hell, I can barely manage 10 investments – how could anybody do 500? But they didn’t go as well as Dave might have liked. I think my pal Dave is unemployable.

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

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In addition, DTCP and Lightrock newly invested and previous investors One Peak, Creandum and Greenbridge Partners joined the round. And this round, I think, sends a clear signal [that] we’re going for it,” he said. Erik Nordlander and Tom Hulme of GV were the leads for that firm.

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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

Hilary has had both a major impact on my personally--by helping to push the envelope on the kind of data analysis work we were doing at Path 101. When we hired her, we leveled up in terms of our technology and Big Data chops. That's how you win out in the venture and startup world. How did this startup come to be?

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

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Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others

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Other observability vendors with substantial backing behind them include Manta , Observe , Better Stack , Coralogix and Unravel Data. But it’s not deterring Metaplane, a data observability startup founded by MIT graduate Kevin Hu (CEO), former HubSpot engineer Peter Casinelli and ex-Appcues developer Guru Mahendran in 2020.