com founded 2007 headquarters seattle washington united states products social data discovery website http www.socrata.com socrata is a company that provides cloud based data visualization and analysis tools for opening government data . originally called blist socrata was founded in february 2007 . socrata targets non technical internet users who want to view and share government healthcare energy education or environment data . its products are issued under a proprietary closed exclusive license . company history edit socrata is headquartered in seattle washington usa with offices in washington d.c. and london u.k. it received an initial a round of venture capital funding of usd 6.5 million from morgenthaler ventures and frazier technology ventures in february 2008 . 1 the company received an 18 million series b funding round from openview venture partners morgenthaler ventures and frazier technology partners and in q tel on june 26 2013 as well as a c round of funding in late 2014 . 2 3 socrata launched at the demo 2008 conference and was previously known as blist an online software as a service database provider before its socrata name change on june 2 2009 . 4 datasets edit socrata offers a free account for users to upload datasets in comma separated values format . users can download a dataset or access data via api . references edit cook john 2008 02 20 . database startup blist scores 6.5 million stake . seattle post intelligencer . cook john 2013 06 26 . socrata lands 18 million continuing mission to unlock troves of government data . geekwire . peters katherine 2013 09 03 . in q tel investment signals intel community focus on data sharing . nextgov . start up taps obama e gov energy . national journal . 2009 06 02 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title socrata & oldid 723249985 categories internet companies of the united statesamerican companies established in 2007private equity portfolio companiesprivately held companies based in washington state technology companies established in 2007 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 june 2016 at 22 50 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view