Sun Co-Founder Backs Start-Up That Wants to Be the Visicalc of Big Data

Metamarkets, the analytics start-up that wants to be the “Visicalc of Big Data,” has gotten a $15 million B round led by new investor Khosla Ventures – Vinod was one of Sun’s founders.
Existing backers IA Ventures, True Ventures, Village Ventures and AOL Ventures kicked in. AOL is a customer. Advertising don’t you know
The new money brings total capital raised so far to $23 million. It’s earmarked for product development and sales and marketing. It’s pushing into social media and payment start-ups where the data is massive.

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