APB has covered the crowdsourcing project to map cell signal quality in the past. Now news it's turning into something more.
Crowdsourced mobile network measurement startup OpenSignal has raised a $1.3 million seed round from Qualcomm Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Passion Capital, which it will use to build up its database of mobile network performance metrics.
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10gen, the sponsor company of the open source NoSQL database MongoDB, today announcedundisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, a non-profit private equity and venture capital firm that invests in technologies deemed beneficial to the U.S. intelligence community. The typical investment from In-Q-Tel is rumored to be between $1 million and $3 million.
Until this point the company had raised some M$73. MongoDB has a geospatial component which enables many LBS and high transaction geo apps.
...Space-Time Insight announced its second round of funding of $14 million. Space-TIme Insight use geospatial and visual analytic technology to help businesses interpret their energy and utility data.
That brings total funding for the company to M$16 since 2009.
