Over $190 Million Invested in Social Media Analysis Companies in 2012

By Nathan Gilliatt on Dec 19, 2012

Companies in social media analysis announced receiving over $190 million in new investments in 2012. Add quiet investments and the value of the year's mergers and acquisitions, and it's real money. Here's a recap of the year's investment activity.

• Appinions - $3 million
  
• Bluefin Labs - $12 million
  
• Brandwatch - $6 million
  
• Dataminr - $13 million
  
• DataSift - $22.2 million (two rounds)
  
• FullContact - $7 million
  
• LeadSift - $500,000
  
• Lithium Technologies - $53.4 million
  
• Little Bird - $1 million
  
• NetBase - $18.1 million
  
• Olery - $1 million
  
• Polecat - €850,000
  
• Recorded Future - $12 million
  
• Revinate - $14.5 million
  
• Simplify360 - undisclosed (two rounds)
  
• Thismoment - $22 million
  
• Tracx - $4.4 million
  

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