Next Generation Solution Fuels Growth of $5 Billion Web Data Integration Spending

Import.io, the leading web data integration solution provider, announced it has closed a $15.5 million Series B funding round to accelerate global growth and expand its product offerings to meet the growing needs of enterprises.

Talis Capital, a London-based venture capital firm, led the investment with participation from existing investors IP Group, OpenOcean, Oxford Capital and Wellington Partners. This capital infusion comes at a time when companies are urgently trying to become “data-driven,” as a key part of digital transformation. Alternative data sources such as the web are crucial to gaining a competitive advantage. The web is the single largest data source on the planet, but traditional solutions for gathering that data are complex, unreliable, time intensive and poor quality.

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With 90 percent of the world’s data having been created in the last two years, demand for data-driven insights leveraging web data continues to escalate. Total spend on web data integration is estimated to hit $5 billion in 2019 according to Opimas Research.

“Businesses around the world are losing trillions of dollars due to lack of timely access to high-quality data. In fact, IBM estimates that poor-quality data costs businesses in the US more than $3 trillion annually,” said Gary Read, CEO of Import.io. “Import.io is committed to providing timely, high-quality data with little-to-no customer resource requirements. We empower our customer base of more than 800 companies to make business-critical decisions based on the data we provide every day; and we back that up with an aggressive service-level guarantee.”

“When we saw what Import.io was doing, we immediately understood the importance and recognized the game-changing capabilities of the solution,” said Matus Maar, co-founder and managing partner, Talis Capital. “We spoke to multiple Import.io customers who explained how important Import.io had become to their business and raved about the solution, support and quality of the data provided.”

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In the 2018 IDC Business Analytic Solutions survey, IDC estimated that data professionals spend approximately 75 percent of their time gathering and cleaning data and only about 25 percent finding insights from the data. Import.io’s solution empowers data professionals to prioritize securing the insights and analytics that drive business innovation and competitive advantage.

This funding announcement highlights a momentous few years for Import.io. In 2016, Import.io appointed Read as CEO to scale the business, given his accomplished career of profitably growing companies in emerging industries – highlighted by Nimsoft’s $350 million acquisition by CA Technologies in 2010. Since Read has taken the helm, Import.io has experienced three years of growth. In 2018 Import.io launched hundreds of new product capabilities and attracted more than 300 new customers across the financial services, retail and consulting industries, among others.