| Company | Chartio |
| Address | Founder’s Den 665 3rd Street San Francisco, CA, 94117 USA |
| Founders | Dave Fowler |
| Founded | June 2010 |
| Funding | $ 4.44 million |
| Employees | 6 |
| Website | www.chartio.com |
| Rating | 6 bits |
Chart.io, a big data startup born in YCombinator, aims to help companies make better decisions with intuitive and real-time analytics. Their analytics platform allows users to integrate data from different sources such as MySQL, Cloud Databases, Google Analytics or Heroku. Thereby skipping the need for data warehousing and avoiding its security pitfalls.
The system will organize the information into real-time interactive charts that are easy to interact with and to understand.
Small and medium-sized companies that need to analyse data on a regular basis are among the target group of Chart.io as with a subscription plan as low as $ 95 per month they receive unlimited dashboards, unlimited charts and free data sources for one project and one user.
The platform also makes it possible to drill down into the graphs shown, download graphs as PNG, CSV or PDF and even download entire dashboards in PDFs for printing.
It took a few years of developing the tool, which has been thoroughly tested, as the founders focused on making the tool easy to use and with beautiful visuals. Their idea was to develop a platform that can be used by marketeers and sales people without the need to have knowledge about APIs or SQLs. This proved a successful strategy as at the moment Chart.io has around 800 customers and are growing at 30% month-over-month. In the end of 2011 they received an additional $ 3.15 million funding from Avalon Ventures and Bullpen Capital.
Chart.io targets a group of companies that should be very interested in the usage of big data tools. However, these are also the companies that cannot afford big bucks for a complex tool that needs a lot of engineering to implement. Chart.io offers just that: a beautiful tool that is easy to set-up and to use and that can help SMEs make better decisions. Therefore, BigData-startups.com gives Chart.io a rating of 6 bits.
