LiveStories
| Privately-held company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | 2013 |
| Founder 👔 | Adnan Mahmud |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Products 📟 | Data visualization and communication software |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 43 (mid-2018) |
| 🌐 Website | livestories.com |
| 📇 Address | |
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LiveStories is a data communication software company based in Seattle. Founded in 2013 by Adnan Mahmud, the company's software combines data analysis, visualization, and web publishing features, targeted toward non-expert data users.[1] LiveStories' customers have previously included the U.S. Department of Defense and the city of Melbourne, Australia;[2] the company primarily serves public health departments in the United States.[3]
LiveStories’ customers use the software to visualize and provide context for their data, covering such topics as flu surveillance[4][5] and opioid overdoses.[6] In addition, LiveStories’ own analyses on public data has been reported by national media.[7][8][9][10]
History[edit]
Adnan Mahmud founded LiveStories in 2013. Mahmud said he was motivated by his experience growing up in Bangladesh, where he realized that poorly-understood data often held back governments and the people they serve.[11]
In 2013, the nascent company received a $75,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help another grantee, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), make better use of its data. This work provided early tests for the concept behind LiveStories.[12]
LiveStories took part in the 2014 Techstars Seattle startup accelerator.[13] After building a customer base of mostly public-sector organizations, the company raised $3 million in a 2016 funding round led by True Ventures.[14] In 2017, LiveStories received $10 million in Series A funding, led by Ignition Partners.[15]
Products[edit]
LiveStories offers three main products:
- LiveStory is an on-demand data report service.[16] Customers can purchase reports on various public health topics, which LiveStories’ staff assembles and publishes.
- LiveStudio enables customers to create and customize their own data reports with a WYSIWYG webpage builder.[17] LiveStudio users can create visualizations from their own data, or make use of LiveStories’ "Data Library" collection of public data for visualizations.
- LivePortal is a customizable data and visualization library.[18] Customers can combine and visualize multiple sources of data together onto a LivePortal, which their constituents and partners can explore.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Exploring Governments' Civic Data Connections". Datanami. 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ↑ "LiveStories dresses up data for nonprofits, government agencies". The Seattle Times. 2017-02-05. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ↑ "Featured Customer Stories". LiveStories. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ↑ "Fighting the flu with a shot of data -- GCN". GCN. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "Data Visualization Tool Helps Missouri County Fight the Flu". www.govtech.com. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ↑ "Clermont County Public Health launches new overdose tracking website". Clermont County Ohio Government. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ↑ Chiaramonte, Perry (2017-05-24). "Hate crime criteria vary widely by state, making analysis of such offenses difficult". Fox News. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "The Wage Gap In Tech In LA Is Getting Worse". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ Schladen, Marty. "Why are Ohio's heroin deaths higher than those in Texas, California?". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "Diabetes epidemic threatens to undermine health care — while GOP destroys it". Salon. 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "LiveStories dresses up data for nonprofits, government agencies". The Seattle Times. 2017-02-05. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ↑ "LiveStories nabs $10M to organize, analyze, and visualize fragmented civic data". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ↑ "Techstars Seattle Class of 2014". Techstars. 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "LiveStories raises $3M to help governments and non-profits visualize data". GeekWire. 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "LiveStories raises $10M to help government agencies find, analyze, and publish civic data". GeekWire. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "LiveStory: Reports on Demand". LiveStories. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "LiveStudio: All-in-One Data Communication". LiveStories. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "LivePortal Connects Partners to Data. Easier than Open Data Portal". LiveStories. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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