Big Data Firm ClearStory Receives $9m

Big Data Specialist ClearStory Data has closed a $9m Series A investment from a group including Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, and led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

The Palo Alto, CA-based firm offers a solution to enable businesses to discover, combine, and analyze data from corporate sources and third parties, enabling 'interactive analysis at scale'.

ClearStory Data founder and CEO Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan (pictured) comments: 'With the astounding growth in external sources of data, data marketplaces, and corporate data housed in new big data platforms, it's time to make it a lot easier for business users to interactively explore and analyze information no matter where it comes from.'

Web site: www.clearstorydata.com .