Yesterday, big data consultancy Think Big Analytics announced a 3M angel round led
by Daniel Scheinman with participation from WI Harper Group. Think Big Analytics specializes on providing professional services around the implementation of solutions powered by on-premise or big data technology stacks.
This founding round is another example of the increasing interest of VC firms in elite IT professional services firms that focus on hot enterprise software trends. Just a few years ago it was unconceivable for a top VC firm to invest on a professional services organizations. Lack or recurrent revenue, long sales cycles, scaling challenges etc were often cited as factors that conspired against the VC interest on these type of business models.
However, the rapid emergence of new technology trends such as big data, private clouds, enterprise mobility, security among others have slowly but steadily beginning to change those dynamics. Given the difficulties for IT organizations to implement these technologies on their own, professional services firms can enjoy of highly lucrative deals in areas that are making a huge difference in the enterprise.
In my opinion, this trend is only going to get bigger in the next few months and we are likely to see more boutique consulting firms raising different rounds of institutional capital.
