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Global Investment Trends Analysis: Crunchbase & Kiva Data Insights

Analyze investment trends using Crunchbase data with 1Gb of company details and Kiva small business loans to explore financial activities from Silicon Valley to Somalia. Uncover insights on total funding of $120 billion USD for 38,000 companies and $140 million USD for 190,000 loans in the time range of 2000-2010. Discover top categories like search, network, mobile, and Facebook along with various business sectors in Kiva such as agriculture, beauty salon, food product, motorcycle transport, and tailoring. Future work includes investor profiling, tag extraction, Porter stemming, and predicting second round funding for enhanced financial foresight. Integrate data analysis with news sources like Google Trends, Yahoo! News, and Twitter for comprehensive market insights.

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Global Investment Trends Analysis: Crunchbase & Kiva Data Insights

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  1. Investment trends from Silicon Valley to Somalia HackAttack

  2. Application • Analyze investment trends over time • Using Crunchbase funding rounds • And Kiva small business loans

  3. CrunchBase • 1 Gb of company data • 38,000 companies • (10,000 with funding info) • Time range: ~2000 - 2010 • Total funding: 120 billion USD • 60 top categories (more than 50 funding events) • Example categories: search, network, mobile, Facebook

  4. Kiva • 170 MB of data • 190,000 loans • Time range: 2005 - 2010 • Total funding: 140 million USD • 150 categories • Example categories: agriculture, beauty salon, food product, motorcycle transport, tailoring

  5. Future Work • Drill down by investor • Automatic tag extraction from description • Porter stemming of tags • Examine funding rounds more closely: try to predict second round funding • Integrate with news sources, e.g. Google Trends, Yahoo! News, Twitter

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