Squadra Ventures is an early-stage Baltimore-based venture capital fund.

Squadra Ventures

Mana Ventures invests in early-stage companies disrupting traditional industries and building the future of frontier technologies. Mana Ventures assists technology and consumer brands in honing their vision, building a great team, developing the right product, raising their next rounds, and celebrating their victories.

Mana Ventures

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is an investment Arm Behind UC Berkeley's SkyDeck Accelerator.

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Collaborative venture capital to accelerate disruptive technological innovation in AI, data, analytics, fintech, ad tech, DevOps, mobility, aerospace, and infrastructure. They have worked with and invested in visionaries, category killers, disruptors, and inventive leaders. They collaborate with businesses that are disrupting big industries. Help them expand and hyper-accelerate by using a collective ''operators for operators'' approach to scaling.

Trajectory Ventures

GreatPoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing between $250k and $20m into Seed, A, and B rounds. The firm was founded in San Francisco, California in 2015.

GreatPoint Ventures

Graphene Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and growth stage tech companies in enterprise software,consumer technology, health tech, fintech and blockchain technologies

Graphene Ventures

Define Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm solely focused on investing in digital health companies. They partner with entrepreneurs with the digital health focus and expertise that they deserve to redefine healthcare.

Define Ventures

Defined is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders who are advancing the automation frontier.

Defined

Datalogz

Datalogz is a platform for data discovery and understanding that aims to minimize data ambiguity from any source. The platform from the company includes capabilities such as a data catalog, data lineage, data governance, a data dictionary, and more, allowing data scientists and analysts to use AI-powered recommendations to improve project quality and eliminate workflow inefficiencies.

Datalogz is a Business Intelligence (BI) Ops platform that addresses BI sprawl in data-mature organizations. The platform plugs into the metadata and logs from BI tools to identify and automate solutions for critical issues such as duplication, misreporting, inefficient queries, anomalies in usage, and wasted computing costs. It integrates with major BI platforms including Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik, Spotfire, and Mode. In January 2023, Datalogz became a Microsoft-verified application for Power BI. The platform helps organizations reduce BI-related costs by at least 30% and save over 4,000 hours annually while minimizing risks in governance, data security, and misreporting. The solution is deployable on AWS and Azure and accessible online. The company's technology creates guardrails that enable enterprise-wide BI initiatives by preventing BI sprawl and enabling self-service analytics.

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Datalogz is a Business Intelligence (BI) Ops platform that addresses BI sprawl in data-mature organizations. The platform plugs into the metadata and logs from BI tools to identify and automate solutions for critical issues such as duplication, misreporting, inefficient queries, anomalies in usage, and wasted computing costs. It integrates with major BI platforms including Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik, Spotfire, and Mode. In January 2023, Datalogz became a Microsoft-verified application for Power BI. The platform helps organizations reduce BI-related costs by at least 30% and save over 4,000 hours annually while minimizing risks in governance, data security, and misreporting. The solution is deployable on AWS and Azure and accessible online. The company's technology creates guardrails that enable enterprise-wide BI initiatives by preventing BI sprawl and enabling self-service analytics.
Key customers and partnerships
The American Bureau of Shipping, Gateway Services, and SSA & Company are among Datalogz's key customers. In March 2024, Datalogz partnered with Carahsoft Technology Corp. to bring its BI Ops solution to government agencies, healthcare, and educational institutions through various government contracts. In April 2023, the company formed a strategic partnership with Tecknoworks, a global technology consulting company, to provide visibility into clients' BI environments across Power BI and Tableau.

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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.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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Domo

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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 Starburst uses the open source Trino to give its customers a modern solution in the form of one of the fastest analytics search engines, with reliable security, around the clock support and connectors. The platform offers Starburst Enterprise, an option that allows users to deploy, connect, and manage data anywhere, and Starburst Galaxy, which provides a superior MPP SQL engine on an easy to use platform. Some of Starburst&rsquo;s customers are EMIS, Zalando, Finra and Priceline. The company also works with consultancy partners, cloud partners, technology partners, and managed service provider partners.
 
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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

These are tools that help prepare data for AI/ML applications

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