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Infochimps, Inc.

Conference: DEMOfall 09
Market Segment: Enabling Technology
Funding Amount: $0-$100,000
Funding Round: Seed
Funding Details: Friends and Family Consulting contracts
Competitors: No direct competitors. Secondary competitors: MarketResearch.com Socrata.com Amazon Public Datasets Mashery.com Data.gov:
Product Description: Infochimps.org is a website to find, share or sell any dataset in the world. We provide tools to organize and connect datasets by shared dimensions. Anyone can upload datasets of any size or format and choose to add a charge per download. Users pay to download the data and we make a commission. A central repository and marketplace, Infochimps.org will increase the world's access to analytical data.
Market Opportunity: First data suppliers will be from the market research industry, with datasets selling for $10-$2,000. Hoovers estimates this industry is worth $12 billion annually. APIs made this inevitable -- data is becoming a commodity of the Web. There needs to be a central place for it to change hands.
DEMO Says: If Infochimps has its way, you'll be able to find any dataset, connect with others, share data, and sell it too. Master of search Joseph Kelly has partnered the start-up's robust proprietary software platform with formidable research and data aggregation vendors in order to change the dataset game. Whatever data set you're looking for, Infochimps will help you find it.