Comments on: Venture Capital's Data Side Story

By: David Oro

David Oro — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:49:26 +0000

Om has been on it and ahead of it (as he always is). Here’s a video of him interviewing Scott Yara of Greenplum, a large-scale data warehousing and analytics company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eRwCxqyZIM

Video was recorded almost two years ago. FD: I am a consultant for Greenplum.

By: SouthRidge Capital

SouthRidge Capital — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:53:04 +0000

Pharma/Bio Science is still a big play to and will remain there for a long long time.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:02:17 +0000

there's a ton of structured data in enteprises that I'm sure they'd like to be able to search, index, and combine with unstrucutred data (how do I get my CRM data lined up with tweets mentioning my company?), and do it all in the cloud. whoever figures that out will be printing money.

By: DavidS

DavidS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:49:13 +0000

"Cache to cash." I love it!

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:28:09 +0000

Om, right on. This is exactly what my fund is targeting, albeit at the seed stage. You were definitely early in spotting the importance of this space, and we are running with this megatrend and looking to fund the most promising nascent companies across the big data landscape.

Roger

By: Sanjay Maharaj

Sanjay Maharaj — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:21 +0000

Data is the next big play as more and more utility shifts to smartphones which is driving up data usage exponentially