Congratulations to @nik and #datasift on funding


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Nick Halstead CEO and founder of DataSift has raised $6 Million Dollar round from GRP Partners and IA Ventures. Mark Suster and Roger Ehrenberg have joined the board.

DataSift provides very granular and modular ‘sifting’ functions from a wide range of social and web input feeds, augmenting them with sentiment analysis, storage and analytics to offer an unrivalled service platform which leverages the cloud and scales infinitely.

The world is moving to streams, and consumers will consume and curate their own news. DataSift follows this paradigm shift and seeks to become the platform of choice for stream curation, consumption, and ultimately monetization. The end visualizations are unlimited and bounded only by your imagination.

Their ambition in life is to:

  • build the best platforms for developers, publishers, brands, and agencies.
  • unlock the power and data of social media.
  • do so in a fun and exciting way.