INDUSTRY: Web Services/Mashups/Data-as-a-Service
http://www.strikeiron.com
VC Funding:
· NUMBER OF DEALS – 3 rounds
· AMOUNT INVESTED - $9.6 million
· KEY INVESTORS – Ascent Venture Partners, Aurora Funds, NC IDEA
StrikeIron, the first and only provider of Data as a Service, facilitates the consumption and distribution of live, integratable data and business functionality over the Web. The company's innovative Web Services Marketplace provides over 100 live data sources and business functions from organizations such as D&B, Zacks and MapQuest.
Secret to success.
StrikeIron's Web Services Marketplace provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources.
StrikeIron enables business users, application developers and enterprise IT professionals to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. StrikeIron also offers a set of products and tools to simplify and accelerate the consumption of data such as its SOA Express for Excel, enabling business users to access live data via front office applications.

"With the ongoing adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies as well as the benefits of eliminating the infrastructure behind storing and maintaining data internally has allowed StrikeIron to experience an exceptional wave of success."
Bob Brauer, CEO and Founder of StrikeIron
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