Cash Out! TechStars NYC Alum ThinkNear Acquired for $22.5 M. Cha-ching! GigaOm reports that TechStars New York just got its first acquisition: 2011 graduate ThinkNear, a hyperlocal mobile ad startup, By Kelly Faircloth
Big Data Funding Gets Bigger: IA Ventures Raised $105 M, Double Its Previous Fund IA Ventures, the New York City-based firm with a big data fetish, just announced that it raised $105 million towards By Nitasha Tiku
Is It Possible to Predict Pageviews 15 Minutes Into the Future? $1.7 M. for Visual Revenue Says Yes What’s cooler than real-time? New York-based Visual Revenue is building technology that purports to predict web traffic in advance. We first By Adrianne Jeffries
Mark Suster and New York’s Roger Ehrenberg Invest In Big Data Fresh From the Twitter Stream By Nitasha Tiku