Dcode - We just closed out our 2018 AI & Big Data cohort with some incredible businesses who are making waves with government work and contracts.

IMB - There is the old saying that “it takes a village,” and that couldn’t be more true when it comes to building the best solutions for companies on the journey to AI

Spatial Source - Big data analytics platform MapD now leverages the muscle of Google Cloud Platform with its availability within the Launcher container.

sdx central - Here are the week’s strays and stragglers we roped for you:

datanami - GPU-powered database pioneer MapD Technologies today announced that customers can now get its software through the Google Cloud Launcher, the online marketplace for Google Cloud Platform

Business Insider - MapD Technologies, the Extreme Analytics™ Platform provider, today announced its availability on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace (GCP Marketplace), the deployment service for the Google Cloud Platform.

Forbes - And the relatively high demands that venture capitalists place on startup CEOs causes them to run their companies in ways that spur rapid growth -- at the expense of growth at those relatively cushy public companies.

Forbes - Why do big technology companies like IBM and Oracle have trouble sustaining rapid growth that drives up the value of their shares? In a nutshell, they've lost that startup feeling.

Finovate - MapD, a next generation database and visualization layer capable of providing immersive, instantaneous analytics on large and complex datasets, has released the latest version of its technology.

insideBigData - The team here at insideBIGDATA is deeply entrenched in the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe.