1. Investment trends from Silicon Valley to Somalia

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

3.  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.  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.  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