Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Floodgate

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in enterprise software.  Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.  Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.

Ignition Partners

Triangle Peak Partners conducts private investments in companies where it can work with management and help create value. The firm has a deep background in venture capital and private equity investing in private and public technology, energy, and alternative energy companies. Triangle Peak focuses on Series B through PIPE stage deals.

Triangle Peak Partners

Capital One Ventures is a strategic investor, funding startups that are driving the future of data, technology, and financial services. Founded in 2014, Capital One Ventures has invested in more than 70 companies that help deliver superior experiences to consumers and businesses. Capital One Ventures is based in San Francisco, New York and at Capital One's headquarters outside of Washington, DC.

Capital One Ventures

PCM is a private fund manager that targets investments with the knowledge that disruptive innovation and market-changing technology comes from entrepreneurial efforts backed by smart investments.  PCM applies a rules-based investment approach to the private funds we manage, looking for core fundamentals and developed business plans.  The companies PCM invests in create products and services to address market demands and revolutionize existing industry sectors.  As entrepreneurs, operators, and investors, PCM is dedicated to the success of our companies and to the men and women who have worked to create them.

Pharus Capital Management

H. Barton Asset Management is a VC firm specializing in start-ups and early stage investments.

H. Barton Asset Management

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

Microsoft

Silver Lake Waterman provides growth capital to late-stage growth companies in the technology-enabled industries. It manages approximately $75 billion in combined assets and is committed capital and a team of investment and operating professionals based in Menlo Park, New York, London, Hong Kong, Cupertino, and San Francisco. Silver Lake’s portfolio of investments collectively generates more than $180 billion of revenue annually and employs more than 400,000 people globally.

Silver Lake Waterman

NextEquity Partners makes mid-late stage private investments in consumer and enterprise technology companies with $10-50M+ revenue. Founded in 2015, NextEquity is led by senior executives from Apple (former Apple Chief Software Officer Avie Tevanian and former Apple CFO Fred Anderson) and private equity execs from Elevation Partners (Adam Hopkins, Rami Reyes) who have been investing together for over 10 years in leading companies such as Facebook, Yelp, MarketShare, Sonos, Airbnb, The RealReal, Masterclass, Ring, Venafi, and SentinelOne. The team brings a unique combination of Apple DNA, Silicon Valley relationships, and private equity discipline to mid-late stage tech investing.

NextEquity Partners

Arrowroot Capital Management is a growth equity firm based in Santa Monica focused on growing, mature, and recurring revenue software businesses. We seek to partner with management to accelerate growth and help guide the company to its ultimate exit.  Arrowroot targets equity investments in the range of $5 million to $25 million, and has the flexibility to pursue larger opportunities.  Arrowroot's capital is typically deployed to achieve very distinct goals including, but not limited to: – Working capital and growth investment – Liquidity for founders and/or management – Liquidity for previous venture or angel investors – Acquisition capital Arrowroot’s capital is flexible, but investment characteristics generally include: – Minority or majority positions – Board representation – 2 to 4 year hold periods – Highly incentivized management teams; commonly via new option grants – Arrowroot seeks to optimize the investment amount in order to efficiently grow businesses and create healthy capital risk dynamics for founders, current management, and past investors Target Company Characteristics: – $5 million+ revenue run-rate – Strong recurring revenue growth rate – Proven, effective and efficient sales and marketing strategy – Mission-critical, B2B software that typically solves a pain-point in compliance, workflow, security, and/or optimization

Arrowroot Capital Management

Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced private credit manager. We specialize in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to companies backed by private equity sponsors. Our sponsor finance expertise also forms the foundation of our Broadly Syndicated Loan and Credit Opportunities investment programs. We nurture long-term, win-win partnerships that inspire repeat business from private equity sponsors and investors.  As of October 1, 2024, Golub Capital had over 1,000 employees and over $70 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com.

Golub Capital

Sixth Street Partners is a financial services company that provides solutions for companies. Their solutions include healthcare, digital media, fund, real estate, and market solutions. Their market solutions platform provides products for markets, market investing, and market solutions.

Sixth Street

Vitruvian Partners is an equity firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts, and growth capital investments.

Vitruvian Partners

SnapLogic

SnapLogic provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration. The company's Intelligent Integration Platform accelerates data and process flow across applications, databases, data warehouses, big data streams, and IoT deployments. Whether on-premises or in the cloud. It also enables the unification of multiple endpoints including SaaS, ERP applications, APIs, data warehouses, big data, and “things” – all on a single platform. Unlike traditional integration software that requires painstaking, hand-crafted coding by teams of developers, SnapLogic’s simple platform enables IT and business users to develop quality, scalable data pipelines that get the right data to the right people at the right time. SnapLogic balances design simplicity with platform power to obtain immediate value. The company's intuitive, cloud-based, self-service software allows for easy snap-and-assemble orchestrations via a drag-and-drop interface, robust enough for developers yet easy to master for citizen integrators.

<div>SnapLogic focuses on enterprise automation. This system analyzes current business processes and performances to guarantee optimization as well as assess if manual processes can be digitized. The company has the SnapLogic Intelligent iPaaS, which offers application integration, data automation and integration, API management and development, and Iris artificial intelligence. It also provides other applications like Fast Data Loader and SnapLogic Flows. SnapLogic provides an Informatica replacement, modernization, and cloud data warehouse solutions that benefit the finance and accounting, IT, marketing, sales, and HR departments. SnapLogic has partnered with Microsoft and Google Cloud, and counts Adobe, PWC, and Sony among its clients.</div>

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

SnapLogic Named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools for Third Consecutive Year

Amazon Web Services

SnapLogic has entered into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to promote global adoption of generative integration.

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

Platforms that assist with fine-tuning pre-trained GenAI models or custom models tailored to specific use cases. Includes services that train models from scratch or use existing models

Adobe

SnapLogic is providing new intelligent connectors, or Snaps, which will bring together all of an organization’s customer data–from CRM, marketing automation, campaign management, content management, marketing analytics and other marketing systems–into Adobe Cloud Platform.

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Firms positioned as an 'all-in-one' marketing platform,  providing a variety of functions across the MarTech stack

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 SnapLogic focuses on enterprise automation. This system analyzes current business processes and performances to guarantee optimization as well as assess if manual processes can be digitized. The company has the SnapLogic Intelligent iPaaS, which offers application integration, data automation and integration, API management and development, and Iris artificial intelligence. It also provides other applications like Fast Data Loader and SnapLogic Flows. SnapLogic provides an Informatica replacement, modernization, and cloud data warehouse solutions that benefit the finance and accounting, IT, marketing, sales, and HR departments. SnapLogic has partnered with Microsoft and Google Cloud, and counts Adobe, PWC, and Sony among its clients.
 
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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.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.

Fivetran

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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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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

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

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 SnapLogic unveiled GenAI Builder, a no-code application development tool for enterprise applications. The product supports different data types like legacy mainframe data, modern databases, and APIs, facilitating the integration of conversational AI for digital interactions. It is applicable to crucial functions like customer support automation and personalized marketing. The tool is designed to empower both IT and business teams.
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