Lucky Sort is a Portland-based visualization engine that helps users make sense of live data streams by exposing datasets for non-technical analysis. Its first product, TopicWatch, lets users sift, summarize, and analyze live updates from social media, government filings, news and commentary. The company is focused on financial‑services customers and has partnered with StockTwits to ingest the entire historical database plus a real-time feed for analysis. Data in the platform is read-only for compliance, and Lucky Sort charges for access to its platform and datasets, currently offering enterprise licenses with prices in the low hundreds of dollars per month per user and a self-serve license coming soon. The company plans to add additional partners and integrations to broaden the data available to investors. A forthcoming update will enable charts and graphs to refresh in real time as new data arrives. Lucky Sort is building TopicWatch, a visualization and navigation engine for discovering patterns in live text data on the Web and iPad. The platform supports public sources (social media, news, RSS) and lets users import private text to analyze alongside other data. TopicWatch emphasizes NLP that relies on statistics and user input rather than traditional ontologies. The product offers touch-friendly visual interfaces, an API for developers, and embeddable interactive views for websites. TopicWatch and its iOS and Web apps plus the API were scheduled to launch in May 2012, with an enterprise private cloud option planned for the future. The company has raised seed funding to support development and initial launches.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Nov 2012