NEXTDATA

Nextdata is a company developing a "data-mesh-native" platform designed to build and share data products. The company's core offering, Nextdata OS, allows users to create, share, discover, and apply data products for analytics purposes. This system enables the storage of data and metadata in a single container, known as the data product container, which other users can manage or integrate into applications, websites, and services. Nextdata's approach aims to solve challenges around data sharing, particularly in relation to AI and machine learning.

The platform provides APIs that allow organizations to access data products across technologies and trust boundaries for running analytical and machine-learning workloads in a distributed manner. Instead of requiring data consumers to copy data for reprocessing, Nextdata's APIs bring processing to the data, which is intended to reduce unnecessary work and data bloat. A key feature of Nextdata's system is the embedding of data governance policies as code within each data product container. These controls are applied throughout the data lifecycle, from build to runtime, and at every point where the data product is stored, accessed, or read.