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Dachis Group Completes $7.5M Series C Round

By TechTaffy Desk

Social marketing solutions company Dachis Group has completed a $7.5 million Series C funding round led by Austin Ventures. The company says it will use the investment to accelerate the development of its core big data social analytics platform.

Jeffrey Dachis (CEO, Chairman, and Founder Dachis Group):  In just the last few months, we’ve hit over 100 enterprise licenses for our software sold into the world’s largest brands and agencies including Nokia, New York Life, Starwood, Bloomberg, Bank of America, Estee Lauder, Juniper, Acer, and AT&T.

Dachis Group tracks more than 35,000 brands and several hundred million brand social interactions every single day, says the company. The data represents 850 trillion permutations of data that it analyzes and packages into metrics and insights.

[Image courtesy: Dachis Group]

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