Context Relevant

Context Relevant
Private
Industry Data analytics
Founded Seattle, United States (2012 (2012))
Founder Stephen Purpura
Headquarters 1301 5th Ave., Suite 1300, Seattle, Washington, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Chris Kelley (CEO)
Art Munson
Dustin Hillard[1]
Products Behavioral Analytics Engine
Number of employees
 50[2]
Website www.contextrelevant.com

Context Relevant is a big data analytics startup based in Seattle, Washington, US.[3][4] Founded in 2012 and led by Chris Kelley, the company sells on-premises software, cloud services, and professional service solutions to help businesses accelerate analysis and actionable insight.[3][5][6][7]

As of September 26, 2014, Context Relevant has raised $42 million in total investment.[8]

Product

Context Relevant has developed an analytics system that ingests data, determines what’s important, and creates a problem-specific solution that can be deployed while continually learning.[9][10] The proprietary high-performance machine learning technology accelerates analytics and actionable insight.[3]

Problem-specific Behavioral Analytics Libraries provide an out-of-the-box experience that reduces the workload on users building complicated models.[3][9] Deployment options include public or private clouds, traditional servers, and Hadoop clusters.[3][9] Currently available Behavioral Analytics Libraries include solutions for Online Revenue Optimization, Content Prediction, Data Quality Management and Finance.[11]

Scale-out, in-memory technology allows smart caching for small or huge datasets using more computers to parallelize the efforts, as needed.[3][11]

Context Relevant's software has been applied to various industries, including finance. The information gathered through the technology helps clients predict activity based on observed trends. It is useful for calculating prices and other risks at high speed.[12] The system can also detect fraud quickly.[13]

Investment history

Context Relevant launched with $1.3 million in seed funding from Madrona Venture Group and Seattle-based angel investor Geoff Entress.[14] Other initial investors included Mike McSherry, Cliff Kushler, and Mark Illing of Swype/Nuance.[14] The startup received an additional $1.5 million in funding from Madrona in November 2012.[15] In July 2013, Context Relevant raised a total of $7 million in a round of series A funding.[9][16][10] The round included previous investors such as Madrona Venture Group and Geoff Entress, as well as Vulcan Capital and Bloomberg Beta.[17][18][19]

In May, June, and September 2014, Context Relevant raised an additional $35 million in total investment in three chunks from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg Beta, New York Life, Formation 8, Madrona Venture Group, Work-Bench, and prominent Seattle angel investors.[20][21]

Partners

Context Relevant has partnered with Good Harbor Security Risk Management,[22] a company founded by Richard A. Clarke, a counterterrorism expert and former cyber-security adviser under the Bush administration.[23] Clarke sits on Context Relevant's advisory board and, through his company, helps Context Relevant to repair security breaches and ensure security compliance, among other services.[24]

Awards and recognition

In May 2014 Context Relevant was named to DataBeat's Innovation Showdown.[25]

In April 2014 Context Relevant was nominated for Pacific Northwest Startup of the Year by GeekWire.[26]

In November 2013 Context Relevant was selected by GeekWire in collaboration with the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) and the Bezos Center for Innovation as one of the Seattle 10. This recognizes the most promising young start-up companies within the Seattle region.[27][28] Context Relevant, along with the nine other companies, was recognized at the GeekWire Gala on 4 December 2013 where they also unveiled a sketch of their business concept on giant-sized cocktail napkins.[29]

References

  1. ↑ Cook, John (August 28, 2012). "Context Relevant rebuffs ‘acquihire’ offers, attracts top data scientists". GeekWire. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ Saitto, Serena (25 September 2014). "Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Fund Context Relevant". Bloomberg News.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yang, Stephanie (July 16, 2013). "Data Analysis Startup Context Relevant Raises $7M Series A Round". TechCrunch. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Company Overview of Context Relevant, Inc.". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ Chowdhry, Amit (July 16, 2013). "Context Relevant Raises $7 Million In Series A". Pulse 2.0. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  6. ↑ Woodward, Curd (June 28, 2012). "Context Relevant Raises $1.3M to Democratize Data Science". Xconomy. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  7. ↑ Wexler, Steve (February 14, 2013). "Context Relevant: Why Big Data Boffins Are In Demand". IT Trends & Analysis. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  8. ↑ Saitto, Serena (25 September 2014). "Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Fund Context Relevant". Bloomberg News.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Grant, Rebecca (July 16, 2013). "Context Relevant raises $7M for ‘world’s fastest’ predictive analytics engine". VentureBeat. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  10. 1 2 "Context Relevant closes $7M series a funding". FinSMEs. July 16, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  11. 1 2 "Context Relevant unveils its flagship analytics product and demonstrates game-changing approach to big data analysis". Context Relevant. August 28, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  12. ↑ Helm, Leslie (February 2014). "Bright Idea: Data Processing". Seattle Business.
  13. ↑ Rasmus, Daniel W. (31 January 2014). "Analytics for the rest of us".
  14. 1 2 Cook, John (June 28, 2012). "From wine picks to stocks: Could the ‘big data’ geeks at newly-formed Context Relevant predict the future?". GeekWire. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  15. ↑ Denne, Scott (November 15, 2012). "Context Relevant Adds $1.5M to Seed, Lands Concur as Customer". Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  16. ↑ Cook, John (July 16, 2013). "Data analytics startup Context Relevant scores $7M series A from Madrona, Bloomberg and others". Geekwire. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  17. ↑ Parkhurst, Emily (July 16, 2013). "Big money for big data: Context Relevant raises $7M from Madrona, Vulcan, others". Puget Sound Business Journal. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  18. ↑ Romano, Benjamin (July 16, 2013). "Context Relevant, Ayasdi Score Funds to Automate Big Data Analysis". Xconomy. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  19. ↑ Kelly, Meghan (July 16, 2013). "Funding Daily: Twerk". VentureBeat. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  20. ↑ Gage, Deborah (20 May 2014). "Context Relevant Raises $21M To Automate Big Data". Wall Street Journal Digital.
  21. ↑ Saitto, Serena (25 September 2014). "Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Fund Context Relevant". Bloomberg News.
  22. ↑ Clemens, Jay (12 February 2014). "Richard Clarke: Context Relevant, Good Harbor Team to Help Target Cyber Threats".
  23. ↑ "Profile: Richard Clarke". BBC News. 22 March 2004. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  24. ↑ Cook, John (11 February 2014). "National security expert Richard Clarke to advise Seattle big data startup Context Relevant". Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  25. ↑ VentureBeat Staff (14 May 2014). "Drumroll: Announcing the 2014 DataBeat Innovation Showdown finalists". VentureBeat. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  26. ↑ Cook, John (14 April 2014). "GeekWire Awards voting begins: Cast your ballot for Startup of the Year". GeekWire. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  27. ↑ Cook, John (14 November 2013). "Meet the Seattle 10: These innovative startups are looking to change the world". GeekWire. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  28. ↑ Cook, John (29 November 2013). "Check out these startup business plans, sketched on giant cocktail napkins". GeekWire. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  29. ↑ Soper, Taylor (5 December 2013). "The Seattle 10: Hot startups sketch business concepts on giant cocktail napkins". GeekWire. Retrieved 8 December 2013.

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