SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

A new analysis, published by The Big Data Group and powered by SiSense's Prism technology, unveils venture capital trends that challenge common beliefs.

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"The data points to a Series B crunch, rather than a Series A crunch," explains David Feinleib, Managing Director of the Big Data Group. "Venture Capital is a hot topic. Yet, Venture Capital data is hard to come by and is difficult to analyze,"  

The study analyzes ten years of startup data on 100,000 companies from a variety of sources, including Crunchbase, Wikibon and NASDAQ, and is available at http://www.bigdatalandscape.com/news/100k-company-venture-capital-study.

Investors and entrepreneurs can access the new "CrunchAnalytics" interactive dashboard at: http://www.crunchbase.sisense.com.

"CrunchAnalytics is a showcase of what companies can do with complex and ever growing datasets," says SiSense CEO Amit Bendov. "Most companies have to resort to large teams and allocate large budget to their data projects. SiSense Prism can be pointed at any datasets and deliver value in no time."

Key findings include:

• Less is More: Fewer startups received funding in 2012 but the ones who did, raised 22% more capital on average.
• "Series A crunch" doubtful: There were more Series A deals done in 2012 and they closed on average 2 months faster in 2012 than in 2011.
• "Series B crunch" possible: There were fewer Series B deals done in 2012 and they took on average 45 days more to close in 2012 than in 2011.
• Enterprise deals are back:  Enterprise deals increased in 2012 and gathered on average 40% more capital in 2012 than in 2011.
• Web deals are cooling off: Web deal volume dropped in 2012 and the average amount raised per company shrunk by close to 45% in 2012.

SiSense Prism is the industry's first solution to offer Big Data Analytics on-premises and in the Cloud, without requiring technical expertise, huge budgets or expensive hardware.  

Customers can try SiSense Prism for 30 days for free @ http://www.sisense.com/prism-free-trial

About The Big Data Group

The Big Data Group, LLC provides market research and advisory services to technology vendors and buyers. The Big Data Group produces The Big Data 100, Big Data TV, and The Big Landscape, which is available at http://www.bigdatalandscape.com.

For more information

David Feinleib
The Big Data Group, LLC
dave@thebigdatagroup.com 

About SiSense

SiSense is democratizing Big Data Analytics by pioneering a new approach that enables organizations of all sizes to make sense of their data. SiSense Prism™ - powered by Elasticube™ technology - delivers unmatched performance, agility & value. With customers in 48 countries, including global brands like Target and Merck, SiSense was recently designated a company to watch by Information Management, its solution won the "Audience Choice" award at the O'Reilly Strata conference last week, it was named by CRN a "Hot Product to See at Dreamforce," and included in the "Top 10 Things to See at Hadoop World."

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