Socrata
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Formerly called | Blist |
|---|---|
| Private | |
| Industry | Dot-com |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Products | Social data discovery |
| Website | http://www.socrata.com/ |
Socrata is a company that provides social data discovery services for opening government data. Originally called Blist, Socrata was founded in February 2007. Socrata targets non-technical Internet users who want to view and share government, healthcare, energy, education, or environment data. Its products are issued under a proprietary, closed, exclusive license.
Company history
Socrata is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA with offices in Washington, D.C. and London, U.K. It received an initial A round of venture capital funding of USD 6.5 million from Morgenthaler Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures in February 2008.[1] The company received an $18 million series B funding round from OpenView Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Frazier Technology Partners, and In-Q-Tel on June 26, 2013, as well as a C Round of funding in late 2014.[2] [3]
Socrata launched at the DEMO 2008 conference and was previously known as Blist, an online software as a service database provider, before its Socrata name change on June 2, 2009.[4]
Datasets
Socrata offers a free account for users to upload datasets in comma-separated values format. Users can download a dataset or access data via API.
References
- ↑ Cook, John (2008-02-20). "Database startup Blist scores $6.5 million stake". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
- ↑ Cook, John (2013-06-26). "Socrata lands $18 million, continuing mission to unlock troves of government data". GeekWire.
- ↑ Peters, Katherine (2013-09-03). "IN-Q-TEL INVESTMENT SIGNALS INTEL COMMUNITY FOCUS ON DATA SHARING". NextGov.
- ↑ "Start-Up Taps Obama E-Gov Energy". National Journal. 2009-06-02.