The Series B round was led by new investor Accel Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures (also a new investor), and existing investors Earlybird Ventures and Kibo Ventures. This takes the company’s total funding to $31 million. Founded in 2012, CartoDB is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that serves up geographic mapping tools to help businesses and designers create location-centric visualizations on the Web. It’s about creating meaningful maps out of lots of data. With the advent of smartphones and other connected devices, “location” has become an increasingly powerful metric for understanding shifting trends and how different regions behave in different...