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IA Ventures

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IA Venture invests in early-stage companies developing breakthrough tools and technologies for managing and extracting value from Big Data.

IA Ventures was founded on the belief that managing and extracting value from massive, occasionally unstructured, often real-time data sets is a competitive advantage.

Most data generated today is simply treated as exhaust—lost forever along with the valuable insights held in it. This is purely because all but the most sophisticated organizations are overwhelmed by the massive datasets that are now commonplace. And this is just structured data. Messy unstructured data is everywhere and goes largely unexplored. Unlocking even a small amount of the information held within it will transform entire industries.

We believe many factors, including commodity clusters, cloud platforms, and advanced statistical algorithms, are making it possible to store, manage, and extract insight from massive datasets—creating a Big Data revolution. We invest in talented early stage teams fueling this revolution with the development of innovative tools, technologies and analytics for managing and extracting value from Big Data—both structured and unstructured. We are interested in a wide variety of verticals including government, healthcare, financial services, and often our investments are directly or indirectly relevant to quantitative trading.

Milestones

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  IA Ventures invested in Next Big Sound. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 4:40pm via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in Coursekit. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/2/12 at 9:12am via nytimes.com
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  IA Ventures invested in MyCityWay. (2/25/11)
  Posted 2/25/11 at 7:32pm via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in PlaceIQ. (12/12/11)
  Posted 12/12/11 at 9:16am via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in NewsCred. (9/7/10)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 3:10pm via newscred.com
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  IA Ventures invested in BillGuard. (10/6/11)
  Posted 10/18/11 at 1:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in TechStars. (9/21/11)
  Posted 9/21/11 at 7:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in Solve Media. (7/27/10)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 11:10am via navfund.com
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  IA Ventures invested in Simple Finance Technology Corp. (8/10/11)
  Posted 8/10/11 at 12:00pm via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in DataSift. (7/11/11)
  Posted 7/11/11 at 4:21am via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in Coursekit. (6/27/11)
  Posted 6/27/11 at 9:10am via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in Yipit. (6/21/11)
  Posted 6/21/11 at 4:34pm via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in Metamarkets. (5/31/11)
  Posted 5/31/11 at 8:05pm via allthingsd.com
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  IA Ventures invested in Kohort. (4/4/11)
  Posted 4/18/11 at 11:44am via techcrunch.com
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  IA Ventures invested in PlaceIQ. (4/5/11)
  Posted 4/5/11 at 7:26pm via dmwmedia.com
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  IA Ventures invested in ThinkNear. (8/13/11)
  Posted 3/11/11 at 11:31am via finsmes.com

Investments

Videos

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1. techcrunch.com [edit]
2. IA Ventures Doubles Down On Big Data With A New $105M Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Microsoft Vet Jeff Green Launches The Trade Desk (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
4. NYC Startup FluidInfo Raises $800k From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
5. Our Portfolio (iaventurepartners.com) [edit]
6. Our Portfolio (iaventurepartners.com) [edit]
7. Our Portfolio (iaventurepartners.com) [edit]
8. Our Portfolio (iaventurepartners.com) [edit]
9. iaventurepartners.com [edit]
10. techcrunch.com [edit]
11. Another Data Play: The Next Big Sound Raises $6.5 Million From IA Ventures And Foundry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. NYT (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
13. Hyper-Local Ad Targeting Startup PlaceIQ Raises $4.2 Million And Moves To New York City (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Khosla, Founders Fund, and Eric Schmidt Put $10 Million Into BillGuard (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $24M, Increases Funding For Each Company By $100K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. ThinkNear Closes $1.6M Seed Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
17. Cha-Ching: BankSimple Banks $10 Million In New Funds And Some Heavy-Hitting Partnerships (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Penn Students Leave School to Launch CourseKit With $1 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Daily Deal Aggregator Yipit Raises $6 Million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Metamarkets Raises $6 Million To Help Big Web Publishers Corral Big Data (allthingsd.com) [edit]
22. PlaceIQ Lands $1 Million for Mobile Marketing (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
23. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. BMW Teams Up With, Invests $5 Million In MyCityWay (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. DataPop Completes $1.7 Million Series A Financing Round (pehub.com) [edit]
26. Reinventing News Syndication (blog.newscred.com) [edit]
27. BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Roger Ehrenberg (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Digital Couponing Startup SaveWave Scores $2.3M From Leading Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Solve Media Finds Solution to "Banner Blindness" (navfund.com) [edit]
30. Groupon Aggregator Yipit Raises $1.3 Million In Venture Funding (businessinsider.com) [edit]
31. TechCrunch: Metamarkets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. BillGuard Raises $3M To Track Hidden Fees, Billing Errors On Credit Card Bills (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Cap Funding Report [edit]
34. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
35. The Trade Desk CEO Green Announces Funding And Investors (adexchanger.com) [edit]
36. Our Portfolio (iaventurepartners.com) [edit]
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