The AI boom is sparking significant investment in the infrastructure that underpins data centers.

Voters in several US states weighed in on ballot proposals that could have a lasting impact on tech companies, workers, consumers and investors.

The Bay Area-based company develops artificial intelligence-powered software that enables businesses to search through internal data sources.

Lucidworks has raised $100 million from investors including Francisco Partners and TPG Sixth Street Partners in what could be the AI startup’s last funding round before an IPO.

A looming IPO for Thiel’s data-mining startup joins the end of Theranos and a rush of IPOs among the past week’s VC headlines.

With the world awash in Big Data, data visualization startups everywhere are helping make sense of the terabytes of data generated daily. To provide a snapshot of the field, we’ve selected some of the coolest VC-backed data viz companies and their key financial and non-financial metrics.

We’ve dug into the myriad of data platform profiles to depict the evolution of not only the Big Data space but also VC backing of data-focused startups.