Tech Company Financing Transactions

DataSift Funding Round

Insight Venture Partners, Cendana Capital and Daher Capital participated in a $42 million Series C funding round for DataSift. The round was announced by the company on 12/3/2013.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/3/2013
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$42,000,000
Round
Series C
Investors

Insight Venture Partners (Lead Investor) (Jeffrey Horing)

Cendana Capital

Daher Capital

IA Ventures (Roger Ehrenberg)

Northgate Capital

Scale Venture Partners (Rory O'Driscoll)

Upfront Ventures (Mark Suster)

Proceeds Purpose
DataSift will use the financing to increase investment in its market leading social data platform, continue expanding its global reach, invest in additional sales and marketing resources, further develop the social data ecosystem and expand into new data types, including internal enterprise data.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Software
Mailing Address
450 Brook Dr.
Reading Berkshire, RG2 6UU
UK
Email Address
Overview
DataSift is the leader in Human Data Intelligence. The only independent provider of social data, blog data and news data.
Profile
DataSift LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
DataSift Company Twitter Account
Company News
DataSift News
Facebook
DataSift on Facebook
YouTube
DataSift on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Timothy Barker
  Timothy Barker LinkedIn Profile  Timothy Barker Twitter Account  Timothy Barker News  Timothy Barker on Facebook
Chief Operating Officer
Steven Pease
  Steven Pease LinkedIn Profile  Steven Pease Twitter Account  Steven Pease News  Steven Pease on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Lorenzo Alberton
  Lorenzo Alberton LinkedIn Profile  Lorenzo Alberton Twitter Account  Lorenzo Alberton News  Lorenzo Alberton on Facebook
Vice President
Jerry Ronaghan
  Jerry Ronaghan LinkedIn Profile  Jerry Ronaghan Twitter Account  Jerry Ronaghan News  Jerry Ronaghan on Facebook
VP - Marketing
Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson
  Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson LinkedIn Profile  Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson Twitter Account  Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson News  Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson on Facebook


 

 

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