Before big data was a hot investing theme,
Roger Ehrenberg was one of the first seed investors to focus almost exclusively on startups using data as a competitive edge.
His NYC-based fund,
IA Ventures, has backed companies such as
Billguard,
Coursekit,
DataSift,
Next Big Sound,
Simple,
ThinkNear, and
Yipit.
His first fund, raised in 2010, was a $50 million seed fundNow, IA Ventures just raised $105 million to double down on data plays in Fund II.