Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led By Andreessen Horowitz, Now Provides Analytics For Viddy And Path

Y Combinator-backed analytics startup Mixpanel can now add Andreessen Horowitz to an already-impressive list of investors.

Mixpanel previously raised $1.75 million from Sequoia Capital, Square COO Keith Rabois, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, and Bebo co-founder Michael Birch. Now Andreessen Horowitz has led a $10.25 million Series A, with participation from Levchin, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, and Yammer CEO David Sacks. (It looks like Sequoia sat out the current round, though I’ve emailed Mixpanel to confirm.) Andreessen Horowitz’s Peter Levine is joining the company’s board.

“We’ve watched [co-founder Suhail Doshi] and his team at Mixpanel transform the company from an innovative startup to one that delivers the most advanced solution we’ve seen for mobile and web analytics,” Levine says in the press release.

Doshi has pitched Mixpanel as an affordable, innovative alternative to old-school analytics companies like Omniture. Back in February, he told me that Mixpanel was tracking 4 billion actions for its customers each month. Less than three months later, Doshi says that number is now more than 7 billion. A lot of that growth has been on the mobile side. In fact, Doshi claims that aside from Instagram, most of the high-profile, hit smartphone apps use Mixpanel. Two new customers include Path and Viddy — and since Socialcam was already a customer, that means Mixpanel is serving the two big apps duking it out for dominance of mobile video sharing.

The next big update to the product will involve making Mixpanel data more actionable, Doshi says — so, for example, instead of just helping gaming companies identify which players are “whales” (i.e., the biggest spenders), it will also help them figure out what to do with that knowledge. Doshi also says he wants to start spending a lot more aggressively on recruiting employees. That’s a normal part of the plan when a company raises money, but Doshi lays out a particularly ambitious vision.

“Not only do we want to spoil our current employees, but we think we can out-compete Google and Facebook in terms of making it an awesome place to work,” he says.