Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies.

Intel Capital

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

Goldman Sachs

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value. Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “open innovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures. INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions. INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm managing $11bn of assets across offices in the UK, China, India, Japan, and the US. Together with our associated funds, including our US sister fund F-Prime Capital, our 50-year history of investing includes partnerships with over 500 companies such as Alibaba, AppsFlyer, Chewy, Fareye, Fever, Flywire, Fireblocks, Funnel.io, Gloat, Hibob, Icertis, Neo4j, Otrium, Owkin, Paidy, Spendesk, Tibber, Toast, Wallapop and Xoom.

Eight Roads Ventures

Lenovo is one of the world's leading personal technology companies, producing innovative PCs and mobile internet devices. A global Fortune 500 company, Lenovo is the world's largest PC vendor and fourth largest smartphone company.   While the Lenovo brand came into existence only in 2004, the company has a much longer history. In 1984, Legend Holdings was formed with 200,000 RMB (US$25,000) in a guard house in China. The company was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988 and would grow to be the largest PC company in China. Legend Holdings changed its name to Lenovo in 2004 and, in 2005, acquired the former Personal Computer Division of IBM, the company that invented the PC industry in 1981.  Today, Lenovo is a US$39billion personal technology company with more than 54,000 employees (including joint ventures) in more than 60 countries serving customers in more than 160 countries. Lenovo is a global company that is incorporated and headquartered in Hong Kong, with operational centers located strategically around the world , with the largest in Beijing and Morrisville, NC. These operational centers drive Lenovo’s global and local business approach.  Lenovo has grown faster than the market for more than four years because our exceptionally engineered products are meant for those who do. Our customers use innovation to bring progress to the world, and we design and build our products with this in mind, taking inspiration from the drive and imagination of the people who make things happen. Our technology helps those who do, do better.     Whether a PC, smartphone, tablet, smart TV, server, workstation or storage, Lenovo makes the products that customers need for what we call the ''PC+ world.'' Lenovo is creating real differentiation from the competition thanks to its vertically integrated end-to-end business model. This model is unique among major PC makers and is a significant source of competitive advantage, helping us to bring more innovation to market, more efficiently, and aggressively attack the PC+ opportunity.  And as Lenovo expands globally, we are establishing even deeper roots in each major market, investing not only in sales and distribution, but also in local domestic manufacturing, R&D and other high-value functions. This global reach with local excellence is enabling us to build a new kind of company - a ''global-local'' company - and positions us to more deeply implement our protect and attack strategy and build the foundation for long-term success.

Lenovo

Los Angeles-based City National Bank offers a full complement of banking, trust and investment services through 71 offices, including 19 full-service regional centers, in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Nevada, New York City, Nashville, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. Its more than 4,600 colleagues deliver highly personal service and complete financial solutions to entrepreneurs, professionals, their businesses and their families.

City National Bank

Epsilon Venture Partners Funding innovation and entrepreneurship across Asia.

Epsilon Venture Partners

DVP Investment is a tech-venture investment firm that focuses on investing in companies within the information technology, communications, healthcare devices, healthcare supplies, and software sectors.

DVP Investment

Digital Alpha is an investment firm focused on infrastructure, services, and solutions required by the rapidly accelerating digital economy. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the network, internet of things, and smart city sectors. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Henderson, Nevada, USA.

Digital Alpha

WS Investment Co. is the investment fund of law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. The fund was formed in 1978 and has been managed throughout by Mario Rosati.  All fundraising is internal, with mandatory participation by partners and is occasionally opened to associates.  Among other investments, the fund was a pre-IPO investor in Google, Brocade (partner Larry Sonsini contributed the options he received from his post as a director), Juniper Networks and Avanex.

WS Investments

DG VENTURES is the Leading Venture Capital with AUM 700m USD (Asset Under Management is over 70 Billion JPY as of March 2022) | Keith Yuki Isobe, Managing Director). Track Records: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Coinbase, airbnb, Indie Semiconductor, GrubMarket, udemy, THREDUP, INTERCOM, Lime, gojek...etc. Providing partnerships for entrepreneurs building innovations.

DG VENTURES

NTT DOCOMO Ventures is the venture capital arm of NTT DOCOMO, Inc. specializing in investments in incubation, early stage, middle stage, and later/pre-IPO stage companies. It prefers to invest in the field of information technology, telecommunications, content platform services, battery power, authentication security, BigData, a solution with devices, cloud, and communication platforms. The firm invests in and outside of Japan. It seeks to invest up to about USD $2 million to USD $3 million per investment. It prefers to seek minority stakes of around 20% or less per portfolio. The firm seeks to exit its investments through sales of stocks or transfer of shares to DOCOMO and NTT Group companies. It also runs an accelerator program called DOCOMO Incubation Program. Docomo Innovation Ventures, previously known as NTT Investment Partners Inc., was established on February 20, 2008, and is based in Minato, Chiba, Japan.

NTT DOCOMO Ventures

WM Partners (WMP), core members of the investment team since its inception in 2002 as a division of Japan Asia Investment Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange, First Section), has made ​​investing activities for greater than 10 years plays a central role It is an independent private equity firm, which was established.

WM Partners

Japan Post Investment provides private equity fund management and a partner in Japan Post Investment I, LLP.  The firm was founded in February 2018 and is based in Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Japan Post Investment

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private equity platform targeting late-stage growth investments in technology, health care, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors. For nearly three decades, Morgan Stanley has successfully pursued growth investment opportunities. Expansion Capital’s experienced investment team combines extensive growth equity and franchise experience to pursue a value-creation strategy focused on operational and financial measures. The team works closely with the successful entrepreneurs and business professionals underlying its investments to assist in building proprietary advantage for portfolio companies. Expansion Capital also leverages the brand and global network of Morgan Stanley to source investment intelligence and opportunities.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital

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EDGEMATRIX is a startup spun out from the AI ​​project team of a global venture company and provides ''Edge AI Box'', ''Edge AI platform'' and ''Edge AI Solutions''.

Cloudian is a file and object storage company specializing in S3 object storage in the data center. It turns information into insight with an infinitely scalable platform that consolidates, manages, and protects enterprise data. Cloudian Enterprise Object Storage brings cloud technology and economics to the data center with uncompromising data durability, intuitive management tools, and the industry’s most compatible S3 API.

Cloudian is a company that specializes in object storage solutions for enterprises. Its primary offering is HyperStore, an S3-compatible data platform for capacity-intensive workloads, including AI/ML applications. Cloudian's services focus on providing scalable, secure, and flexible storage solutions that can be deployed in data centers, at the edge, or in hybrid cloud environments. It also offers HyperStore File Services for SMB and NFS file services, HyperIQ for monitoring and analytics, and HyperBalance for load balancing.

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Cloudian is a provider of enterprise data storage solutions, offering an object storage platform called HyperStore. Cloudian's HyperStore is an S3-compatible object storage system designed to manage massive amounts of unstructured data in a cloud-native format. It allows enterprises to consolidate their data into a single, dynamically scalable storage environment deployable anywhere - on servers, virtual machines, or in the cloud.
HyperStore utilizes a highly scalable peer-to-peer architecture that enables non-disruptive growth from just a few nodes to an exabyte-scale globally distributed cluster managed as a single storage pool. The platform offers features like data immutability for ransomware protection and multi-tenancy for securely accommodating multiple users or applications. Cloudian's solutions interoperate natively with S3 APIs, ensuring investment protection by supporting a vast ecosystem of S3-enabled applications.
Cloudian's object storage solutions are utilized across various industries, including media and entertainment, life sciences, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and internet of Things (IoT). The company emphasizes providing limitless scalability, simplicity, and cost efficiency, claiming up to 70% lower total cost of ownership compared to conventional storage systems.
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In 2024, Cloudian's HyperStore has over six enterprise customers globally, primarily from the US, Sweden, and Switzerland. Notable industries leveraging Cloudian's solutions include cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and data analytics sectors.

Cloudian is a company that specializes in object storage solutions for enterprises. Its primary offering is HyperStore, an S3-compatible data platform for capacity-intensive workloads, including AI/ML applications. Cloudian's services focus on providing scalable, secure, and flexible storage solutions that can be deployed in data centers, at the edge, or in hybrid cloud environments. It also offers HyperStore File Services for SMB and NFS file services, HyperIQ for monitoring and analytics, and HyperBalance for load balancing.Cloudian's HyperStore platform is a limitlessly scalable object storage solution that allows users to consolidate unstructured data into a single, dynamically scalable storage environment. It can be deployed on standard servers, VMs, or in the cloud and managed from a centralized location. HyperStore offers data immutability for ransomware protection, military-grade security, and full S3 API compatibility for seamless integration with existing applications.Key customers and partnershipIn October 2023, Cloudian expanded its partner network in Australia and New Zealand, signing new partnerships with companies such as Baidam, Qirx, Elysium, Nueva, Secure Agility, and Vectec. This expansion aimed to address the increasing demand for object storage and immutable data backup solutions in response to rising ransomware attacks and data breaches in the region.In August 2024,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32476">Cloudian collaborated with Supermicro</a> to deliver a comprehensive data management solution to simplify and accelerate large-scale AI implementations. The partnership integrated exabyte-scalable storage and GPU-based computing to enhance AI deployment in data-intensive use cases across various industries. As of the same date, it also partnered with Lenovo to launch Cloudian HyperStore AI data lake platform. This product combined Lenovo's all-flash AMD EPYC CPU-based servers with Cloudian's AI data lake software to create a solution capable of handling demanding AI and analytics workloads.

Fivetran is a cloud-based automated data integration platform that enables businesses to move data from various sources, including SaaS applications, databases, and files, into data warehouses, data lakes, and other destinations. The company's platform offers multiple deployment models to meet diverse business needs, ranging from stringent security requirements to maintaining on-premises databases even after partial cloud migration.The company's data movement platform is designed to automate and streamline the process of extracting, loading, and transforming (ELT) data, empowering organizations to focus on data-driven insights and decision-making. With real-time analytics, database replication, AI workflows, and cloud migrations facilitated by Fivetran, thousands of customers worldwide can leverage the platform to drive business growth.Fivetran's core offering revolves around its connector library, which supports over 500 data sources, including SaaS applications, databases, ERPs, and files. These connectors enable automatic, reliable, and secure data movement, regardless of whether the data resides on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. The platform's scalable architecture allows businesses to seamlessly add or remove data sources as their needs evolve.To enhance the usability and accessibility of the ingested data, Fivetran employs a normalized schema approach. By delivering data in a normalized format, the platform enables customers to remix and reshape the data according to their specific requirements, facilitating efficient data analysis and reporting. Additionally, Fivetran offers pre-built data models and dbt Core integration, empowering customers to create analytics-ready tables tailored to their business use cases, such as analyzing deal opportunities from Salesforce, generating general ledger reports from QuickBooks data, or evaluating return on ad spend across advertising platforms.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30203">June 2024</a>, the company launched Managed Data Lake Service to simplify the process of managing data lakes for businesses of any size. Key benefits include the ability to centralize data for insights and convenience. Furthermore, it reduces costs by discontinuing support for legacy data warehouses.In September 2024,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33748">Fivetran introduced "Hybrid Deployment",</a> allowing customers to run data pipelines within their environment while managing them through Fivetran's platform. This solution enables enterprises to securely centralize data from various sources, including cloud-based SaaS apps and legacy databases. Fivetran claims Hybrid Deployment offers full visibility of all pipelines from a single interface, enhanced data security, and simplified setup and maintenance.Key customers and partnershipsOver the years, Fivetran has attracted a diverse range of customers across various industries, including ecommerce, finance, technology, and media. Notable clients include Autodesk, Conagra Brands, JetBlue, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley, and Ziff Davis, among others. These companies leverage Fivetran's platform to streamline their data integration workflows, optimize their analytics capabilities, and gain a competitive edge through data-driven decision-making.To further enhance its offerings and enable seamless integrations, Fivetran has established strategic partnerships with various technology providers, including data warehousing solutions, cloud platforms, and business intelligence tools. For instance, Fivetran collaborates with Databricks, enabling customers to build an open lakehouse with Delta Lake powered by the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Additionally, Fivetran's integration with Unity Catalog provides out-of-the-box governance and security for Fivetran-generated tables.

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 Domo is a cloud-based analytics platform that enables businesses to connect, transform, and visualize data from various sources. It provides a comprehensive solution for data management, analysis, and visualization, empowering organizations to make data-driven decisions. Domo's platform is designed to foster collaboration, efficient decision-making, and improved business outcomes through its user-friendly interface and powerful data manipulation capabilities.
 
 
 Domo's key offerings include data integration, data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), and intelligent applications. The platform leverages its Adrenaline engine and offers over 1,000 pre-built connectors to extract data from cloud applications, databases, spreadsheets, and other sources. This data is then stored in Domo's internal data warehouse or accessed through federated queries, enabling users to analyze and visualize it using Domo's extensive collection of visualization tools and dashboards.
 
 
 Domo&rsquo;s user experience is designed to be intuitive and accessible, fostering high adoption rates across organizations. Its user-friendly interface, seamless collaboration features, and mobile-first approach contribute to its widespread adoption and ease of use. Domo's platform is built for speed and scalability, allowing organizations to quickly access and analyze even large datasets without experiencing performance issues.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Domo serves over 2,300 customers across various industries, including major enterprises such as eBay, Walmart, Cisco, Citibank, HP, The National Geographic Society, Verizon, US Army, Vanguard, Microsoft, IBM, Thomson Reuters, Airbus, Orange, AT&amp;T, Caterpillar, Volvo Cars, and Comcast.
 
 
 The platform has been widely adopted by organizations seeking to leverage data for better decision-making, improved customer insights, and enhanced marketing analytics. Domo has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Regional One Health and Torchy's Tacos, enabling them to leverage Domo's capabilities for healthcare metrics and finance applications, respectively.
 
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Founded in 2014, Confluent, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company specializes in data streaming platforms, primarily based on Apache Kafka, an open-source project created by Confluent's founders while working at LinkedIn. Confluent offers two main products: Confluent Platform, an on-premise solution, and Confluent Cloud, a fully managed SaaS. These products help organizations harness real-time data streams for various applications, including microservices, Internet of Things (IoT), financial services, fraud detection, and customer analytics.Confluent's primary offering in data infrastructure services is its integration solution, which enables organizations to unify data from disparate sources. The Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud act as clients' central nervous systems, allowing them to connect various IT systems and applications to capture and process real-time data streams. This capability enables businesses to make decisions based on continuously flowing data.In September 2024,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33818">Confluent announced upgrades to its Confluent Cloud</a> product, enhancing support for Apache Flink. The updates include support for the Table API, simplifying development for Java and Python users, and private networking support to improve data security. These upgrades aimed to simplify Flink deployments, enhance security, and make it easier for organizations in regulated industries to stream data and integrate it into applications.Key customers and partnershipIn December 2023, Confluent expanded partnerships with MongoDB, Pinecone, Rockset, Weaviate, and Zilliz as part of its "Data Streaming for AI" initiative. These partnerships aimed to provide real-time contextual data from Confluent's platform to partners' vector databases, facilitating the development of AI-powered applications.

Confluent

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 dbt Labs provides an open source data transformation tool that uses analytics engineering. It is aimed at programmers with knowledge of SQL to develop models with SELECT statements, test and document each model, and install safely with Git-enabled version control. The software enables the user to develop faster, work from the same assumptions, deploy with confidence, and&nbsp; ensure low risk with governance and safety. The company also offers dbt Core, which is an open source software for analytics engineers, and dbt Cloud Enterprise for secure, reliable access to data. JetBlue and Domain are some of its clients.
 
 
 
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dbt Labs

Starburst provides an analytics engine that enables organizations to access and analyze distributed data without moving it from its source location. The company's platform is built on Trino (formerly known as Presto), a distributed SQL query engine designed for running interactive analytics queries across various data sources. The platform allows users to query data across multiple databases, data lakes, and data warehouses simultaneously, eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming data centralization. In February 2023, Starburst introduced Warp Speed, a smart indexing and caching solution that accelerates queries up to 7x faster by autonomously identifying and caching frequently used data. The company's software includes two main offerings: Starburst Enterprise for self-managed deployments and Starburst Galaxy, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution launched in 2021 that enables data lake and cross-cloud analytics. In February 2022, Starburst reported tripling its customer base and annual recurring revenue in the previous 12 months.
Key customers and partnerships
Starburst's platform is used by organizations including Zillow, Standard Chartered, Carrefour Brazil, Comcast, DoorDash, VMware, and Condé Nast. The platform helped Priceline reduce data storage costs by 5-10x while AssuranceIQ achieved a 10% increase in conversion rates. Starburst had established partnerships with major cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, Red Hat, and HPE. The company also partnered with Red Hat as one of the inaugural members of the Red Hat OpenShift Data Science ecosystem.

Starburst

Solutions to unify data from disparate sources by extracting, transforming, loading, and storing data in a usable form (such as in data warehouses) for further analysis.

Tools to monitor data for quality issues in real-time, as it moves throughout the data pipeline.

Providers of storage solutions that help accelerate data analytics. These include primary storage solutions, such as data warehouses and data lakes, and secondary storage solutions for non-mission-critical data.

Solutions that enable businesses to carry out data processing and create ML models on the underlying data for predictive analysis.

Tools for enterprises to visualize data in a graphical form and obtain insights on the same using AI and natural language processing.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for data infrastructure & analytics.

Leverages GenAI to help organizations extract insights and supports GenAI application development through data preparation

Offers data analytics and storage platforms for business under a B2B SaaS model

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 Cloudian, a provider of an S3-compatible AI data lake platform, has partnered with Supermicro to enhance AI infrastructure. The major goal of their partnership is to offer a broad data management solution for large AI establishments by integrating GPU-based computing with exabyte-scalable storage, consequently accelerating and simplifying AI deployment in sectors that generate large-volume data, such as genomics, healthcare imaging, autonomous vehicles, and scientific research.
 Characteristics of this partnership include exabyte-scale architecture, high-level security, compatibility with native S3 API, dual-mode data access, and a wide range of choices for server hardware storage platform. Cloudian, established in 2011, has a specialisation in the provision of object storage solutions for businesses, with a main focus on delivering scalable, cost-effective, and secure data management infrastructure for heavy workloads. The company's primary product is HyperStore, a data platform compatible with S3, which handles different data-intensive tasks, including AI and machine learning workloads.

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