YFM Equity Partners is an independent private equity business owned by its senior management and investment team. They invest up to £10 million of equity through offices in Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield.

YFM Equity Partners

Scale Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software with a Scaling Platform that has helped companies like Box, Bill.com, Hubspot, Docusign, JFrog, and WalkMe move from founder-led growth to a repeatable go-to-market machine. ScaleVP partners with entrepreneurs to support accelerated growth from the first customer to market leadership.

Scale Venture Partners

Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm with more than $11 billion in AUM and team members across Austin, London, Menlo Park and San Francisco. For over a decade, Sapphire has partnered with visionary management teams and venture funds to back companies of consequence. Since its founding, Sapphire has invested in more than 170 companies globally resulting in more than 30 Public Listings and 45 acquisitions. The firm’s investment strategies — Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport — are focused on scaling companies and venture funds, elevating them to become category leaders. Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators delivers a strategic blend of value-add services, tools and resources designed to support portfolio company leaders as they scale.

Sapphire Ventures

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Battery Ventures

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.

General Atlantic

Citi Ventures harnesses the power of Citi to help people, businesses, and communities thrive in a world of technological change. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Citi Ventures accelerates discovery of new sources of value by exploring, incubating, and investing in new ideas, in partnership with Citi colleagues, clients, and the innovation ecosystem.

Citi Ventures

Matillion

Matillion is The Data Productivity Cloud - helping teams get data business-ready, faster — accelerating time-to-value and increasing the impact data can have.  Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, DocuSign, Pacific Life, Slack, and TUI trust Matillion to load, transform, sync, and orchestrate their data for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine learning, and AI.  Native integration with popular cloud data platforms lets data teams at every skill level automate management, refinement, and data delivery for every data integration need. See Matillion for yourself, and follow us on Linkedin or Twitter

<div>Matillion specializes in data transformation, allowing users to transform data into usable information in the cloud to make successful business decisions. The company offers two products, Matillion ETL and Matillion Data Loader. The former enables the user to load, transform, and sync data effectively, while the latter offers speed, ease of use, and is economical. Matillion enables cloud data warehouses to be integrated into Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure Synapse. It also unlocks the value of akehouses and offers integrations, universal connectivity, and security. The company is headquartered in the UK with an office in the US.</div>

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 Matillion specializes in data transformation, allowing users to transform data into usable information in the cloud to make successful business decisions. The company offers two products, Matillion ETL and Matillion Data Loader. The former enables the user to load, transform, and sync data effectively, while the latter offers speed, ease of use, and is economical. Matillion enables cloud data warehouses to be integrated into Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure Synapse. It also unlocks the value of akehouses and offers integrations, universal connectivity, and security. The company is headquartered in the UK with an office in the US.
 
 
 
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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.

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

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 Confluent streams real-time data to its customers via its data processing system software, Apache Kafka. This system is a publish-subscribe distributed messaging system that receives data and makes it available in real time to target systems. Using Apache Kafka, Confluent provides its customers a complete cloud native platform for data to be accessed anywhere. Its products are the Confluent Cloud, which has pricing options for every budget, and the Confluent Platform, a self-manageable platform. The company has office locations in the US and UK.
 
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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.

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

Matillion

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