Socrata
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| Type | 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. 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 an office in Washington, D.C. 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]
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.[2]
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.
- ↑ ["http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/06/startup-wants-slice-of-obama-e.php" "Start-Up Taps Obama E-Gov Energy"]. National Journal. 2009-06-02.