Two of the top venture capital firms have written a big check for Qualtrics, a 10-year-old company offering online data collection and analysis.
The $70 million round is Qualtrics’ first institutional investment — the company says it has been profitable since it was founded in 2002. The money comes from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital, which both have growth funds targeting investments like Qualtrics — mature companies that have already achieved some success but have bootstrapped thus far. Apparently it’s the largest investment the two firms have ever made together. (Past joint investments include AdMob, the mobile ad network acquired by Google for $750 million.)
Co-founder and CEO Ryan Smith says Qualtrics is offering a new approach to market research. In the past, companies that wanted to conduct this research had to hire outside firms, which is a pricey proposition. There are a few startups are offering cheaper alternatives, but they’re usually simple tools like surveys, which aren’t going to replace serious research. Qualtrics, on the other hand, has developed technology that allows companies to conduct sophisticated research on their own, without hiring an outside firm or even asking their IT team to handle a complicated installation.
“Our mantra is: ‘Sophisticated enough for a PhD, easy enough for an intern,’” Smith says.
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- Introductions
- Datarati Update
- Metrics / ROI Tracking
- Product Update
- Tips & Tricks
- Open Discussion
- Available Resources
- Next User Group
Here are the details on the next user group meeting:
Date: 10 FEBRUARY, 2012
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Cliftons Training Centre 190-200 George Street Sydney
Love is in the Air!
WeMetOnAPlane.com launches to help airline passengers re-unite their love online
WASHINGTON, DC – Monday 9 January, 2012 – Have you ever met that special someone on a plane but for whatever reason you didn’t end up exchanging your contact details with each other and later regretted it? Without their name, how are you going to find them on Facebook?
So if you’re looking for them, and they’re looking for you www.WeMetOnAPlane.com is your opportunity to search, find and connect with that special someone!
How it works: Go to www.WeMetOnAPlane.com and search for them using your flight number, year, month, date, origin or destination. Our advanced search algorithm, will display search results of all stories from that specific flight that have been shared by other passengers. Recognise a story? Simply post a reply to their story and they will be emailed immediately.
Don’t recognise any of the stories? Simply click “Share Your Story” and tell us your story about how you met that special someone. Was it love at first sight? Then share your story via social media including Facebook & Twitter and help us help you find them! The more people who know, the more chance you have of finding and connecting with that special someone.
31 year-old Australian Internet Entrepreneur Will Scully-Power is the brainchild behind www.WeMetOnAPlane.com He launched the site after meeting his girlfriend on a plane in 2011. You can read her full story here: http://wemetonaplane.com/2011-7-11-from-kuala-lumpur-kul-to-sydney-syd/
“4,400 people search for ‘met on a plane’ in Google globally every month. This was enough data to for me to realise that I am not alone and there was no way until now for anyone to connect with someone they met on a plane without knowing their name,” said Will Scully-Power, founder of www.WeMetOnAPlane.com
Will Scully-Power is available for media interviews worldwide.
Will Scully-Power
Founder
www.WeMetOnAPlane.com
Global Phone: +61 400 828 866
Email: wsp@scully-power.com
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Exclusive - I first learned about hosted business intelligence software startup RJMetrics a few weeks ago, when Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg wrote how he made creative use of their software suite for his latest fundraising round; in fact he said he liked it so much he asked to invest in the company.
Fast forward to today: RJMetrics has landed $1.2 million in seed financing from Goldberg, early-stage VCs including SoftTech VC, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel and Zelkova Ventures, and other angel investors such as Wharton Professor Kartik Hosanagar and DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg.
In addition, Jason Goldberg has joined the Philadelphia startup’s board of directors.
Founded in January 2009 by Robert J. Moore (the ‘R’) and Jake Stein (the ‘J’), RJMetrics was bootstrapped to date and managed to get to profitability by selling subscriptions for its hosted business intelligence software to organizations that operate database-driven websites (mostly e-commerce companies, SaaS vendors, social media organizations and online content providers).
Basically, RJMetrics provides tools for database analysis, enabling its customers to extract data from their business and transform it into a more suitable format for analysis and providing them with the means to turn it into beautiful, actionable charts.
Moore and Stein were both formerly employed by venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners, so they knew that they’d be better off waiting as long as possible before raising outside capital, and only agreed to take on investors when they were absolutely sure that it would “generate positive returns”.
For one, they say, almost 100 percent of this seed funding round came from firms or individuals who have used RJMetrics’ product extensively, which is always a big plus.
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On behalf of the team at Datarati, I would like to take this opportunity to formally welcome our new advisory board members for 2012 to all our clients.
The purpose of the Datarati Board of Advisors (BOA) is to provide advice, recommendations and guidance to the Board of Directors and management team of Datarati related to corporate goals and strategy.
Advice and recommendations may include strategic direction, finance, technology and standards, infrastructure, administration or other matters felt to be generally relevant to the development growth and profitability of the company. The BOA should function soley as an advisory body.
Members Include:
- Jeremy Cooper, Head of Enterprise Marketing, Asia-Pacific & Japan - Google
- Anthony Viel, National Partner - Deloitte Analytics
- Martin Walsh, General Manager of Marketing - Macquarie Telecom
- Marcus Zeltzer, Senior Associate - EAC Partners
- Marc Woodward, General Partner - Neo Technology Partners
Please join me in welcoming the new advisory board to the Datarati team!
Cheers,
Will Scully-Power
Managing Director
Datarati
BILLIONS: of people fly on planes every year.
Millions of people meet each other on planes every day.
Hundreds of Thousands of people meet that special someone on a plane but for whatever reason don’t end up exchanging their contact details with each other and later regret it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bummer! Without their name they can’t search for each other on Facebook?
So if you’re looking for them, and they’re looking for youwww.WeMetOnAPlane.com is your opportunity to search, find and connect with that special someone!
