RJMetrics
American software company
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RJMetrics is an American software company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company offers big data analytics to small and midsize businesses.[1]
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| Type | Private startup |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2008) |
| Founder | Jake Stein and Robert J. Moore |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia , U.S. |
Number of employees | 71 (September 2014) |
| Website | www |
History
RJMetrics was founded in January 2009 by Jake Stein and Robert J. Moore.[2] The company had over 300 customers as of September 2014.[3]
Funding
RJMetrics was a bootstrapped company[4] until it received its first round of funding in 2012. The seed round was $1.2 million and came from Red Swan Ventures, Vision Ventures, SoftTech VC, Zelkova Ventures, Lerer Ventures, and SV Angel.[5] In May 2013, RJMetrics received its Series A funding of $6.25 million from Trinity Ventures and SoftTech VC.[6]
In September 2014, RJMetrics received its Series B funding of $16.5 million from SoftTech VC, Trinity Ventures, and August Capital.[7] To-date, the Series B funding is one of the biggest rounds of funding received by a Philadelphia-based IT startup.[8]
Acquisition
In August 2016, Magento acquired RJMetrics, and Stitch, Inc. was spun out as an independent company, with the same investors as RJMetrics.[9]
Platform
RJMetrics is a software as a service business intelligence platform.[10] In July 2014 RJMetrics announced the v2 release of its product and rebranded as an analytics platform.[11] The release included improvements to every major part of the software.
- Analytic Warehouse: Built on Amazon Redshift
- Transformation Cluster: Built on top of Hadoop
- Visualization Interface: Allows users to perform cohort analysis, calculate repeat event probability, and combine data from multiple sources
Data journalism
RJMetrics has received a significant amount of press for their data journalism. Notable coverage includes:
- The Wall Street Journal covering RJMetrics’ analysis of Crunchbase[12]
- Fast Company covering RJMetrics’ analysis of Airbnb[13]
- Forbes covering RJMetrics’ analysis of the ALS ice bucket challenge[14]
- TechCrunch covering RJMetrics’ analysis of the Biz Stone's Jelly App[15]
In 2012, comedian Daniel Tosh covered RJMetrics' analysis of Chatroulette[16]