Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

<div>
 
 DataRobot specializes in AI and machine learning, with a focus on automating various AI and data science tasks. The company's primary offering includes an AI platform designed to enhance business processes and decision-making. DataRobot has reportedly developed over 3.74 billion AI models as at November 2023 with product development involving 3.8 million person-hours of engineering work​​.
 
 
 The company's products are centered around automated machine learning and predictive data analytics. DataRobot holds numerous patents in predictive data analytics; strategic acquisitions such as Zepl and Algorithmia have expanded its capabilities​​​​.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 DataRobot's customer base spans multiple industries, including consulting, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications, among others. As of November 2023, the company claimed to serve significant portions of prominent industry groups, including 40% of the Fortune 50 and leading institutions in banking, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications, such as Freddie Mac, CVS, Valley Bank, and Flexiti.
 
 
 DataRobot's partnerships include collaborations with cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, to expand its platform&rsquo;s AI capabilities and market reach. In addition, the company recently expanded its partnership with SBI Holdings in May 2023​​​​​​. Other technology partners and integrations as of November 2023 include SAP, Intel, Palantir, and Tableau.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 DataRobot's most recent funding round was a USD 300 million July 2021 Series G raised at a post-money valuation of USD 6.3 billion. Previous investors Altimeter Capital and Tiger Global led the round and the fresh funds were used to develop DataRobot&rsquo;s platform and to build out its go-to-market team.&nbsp;
 
 
 DataRobot reported annual recurring revenue (ARR) of over USD 100 million in 2021.
 
 
 
</div>

WEKA is the only data management provider that delivers a software-based solution that supports next-generation workloads with uncompromising speed, scale, simplicity, sustainability, and seamless data portability. The WEKA Data Platform is purpose-built for the cloud and AI era. Its advanced cloud-native architecture is optimized to solve complex data challenges, delivering 10-100x performance improvements, whether running on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. WEKA is fueling research and discovery breakthroughs and accelerating business outcomes for leading global enterprises – including eight of the Fortune 50. The company operates in over 20 countries and is backed by dozens of world-class investors.

<div>
 
 Cohesity offers a cloud data management platform for securing and managing enterprise data. The platform eliminates data silos, providing users access to data stored in data centers, edge sites, and public cloud environments. It also incorporates zero-trust features, such as encryption and role-based access control, along with ML- and AI-powered threat detection and recommendations to protect data. The platform also provides backup and recovery for traditional and modern data sources and ensures business continuity with automated failover and failback orchestration for mission-critical workloads.
 
 
 
 
 Cohesity offers its platform as a managed service&mdash;either through Cohesity directly or via one of its partners&mdash;or as a self-managed platform on private or public cloud platforms. The platform caters to enterprises in multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail, utilities, and media. The company operates through a usage-based SaaS model.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 The company served over 500 clients as of October 2022. Its notable customers include Nasdaq, AutoNation, California Department of Finance, Nationwide, Siemens, and Cisco.
 
 
 
 
 Cohesity has formed multiple partnerships with other technology companies to enhance its platform and offer new solutions. It teamed up with 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/74939">
 Infosys
 </a>
 to provide a data-resiliency-as-a-service solution as part of Infosys Cobalt and with 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/341503">
 Hewlett Packard Enterprises
 </a>
 to improve the security and management of enterprise data.
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In April 2020, Cohesity raised USD 250 million in 
 <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200409005198/en/Cohesity-Announces-250-Million-Series-Funding#.Xo8kcskx7bA.twitter">
 Series E
 </a>
 funding led by DFJ Growth, Foundation Capital, Greenspring Associates, and Wing Venture Capital. The round valued the company at USD 2.5 billion, more than double the valuation achieved from its Series D round. It planned to use the funds for R&amp;D and to build new capabilities.&nbsp;
 
 
 
</div>

<div>
 
 Alation is incorporated in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search &amp; discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.
 
 
 Alation&rsquo;s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces,
 
 
 Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.
 
 
 Alation was established on December 12, 2012 by Aaron Kalb, Satyen Sangani, Venky Ganti, and Feng Niu in Redwood City, California.
 
</div>

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

<div>
 
 clouds, Kubernetes, and more. Platform9 offers several products and solutions, including Managed Kubernetes, Managed OpenStack, and Managed Bare Metal.&nbsp;
 
 
 Managed Kubernetes allows businesses to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure, while Managed OpenStack offers a simplified way to deploy and manage private clouds. Managed Bare Metal enables businesses to run Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other workloads on dedicated hardware with bare-metal performance.
 
 
 Platform9 claims to deliver a seamless Kubernetes experience across any infrastructure. Platform9's SaaS-managed Kubernetes solution offers a single view to manage Kubernetes clusters running on any cloud or on-premises infrastructure, including bare metal servers, vSphere, and public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure, providing customers with a unified Kubernetes experience. In addition, Platform9 offers automated security patching, on-demand upgrades, self-healing clusters, multi-version support, and audit logging.
 
 
 Platform9 has a subscription-based sales model. It offers its services on a pay-as-you-go basis, with pricing based on the number of managed nodes or instances, with optional add-ons for additional features and support.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Platform9 targets enterprise customers who run and manage Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies on distributed cloud services, whether on-premises or in the public cloud. Its customers typically include large organizations with complex IT environments, such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and retail companies.
 
 
 As of mid-2022, Platform9 catered to more than 60 enterprise clients and powered 40,000 nodes across private, public, and edge clouds.
 
 
 Platform9 has partnerships with various cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Platform9&rsquo;s latest funding was a USD 26 million venture round, completed in June 2022. The funds were expected to support speeding up Platform9's go-to-market strategy and positioning the company to achieve scalable growth by executing more large-scale enterprise deployments.
 
 
 Platform9 stated that its revenue doubled in 2021, with a 132% net revenue retention rate, driven largely by its Kubernetes service.
 
 
 
</div>

<div>
 
 SingleStore is a company that provides a distributed SQL database platform for real-time analytics and operational applications.
 
 
 SingleStore&rsquo;s platform combines the scalability of NoSQL with the querying capabilities of SQL. It enables organizations to ingest, process, and analyze large volumes of data in real-time, making it ideal for applications that require fast and accurate data processing. SingleStore solves the problem of handling massive amounts of data and delivering real-time insights for use cases such as real-time analytics, operational analytics, and high-velocity transactional applications.
 
 
 SingleStore's competitive advantage is its ability to handle analytical and transactional workloads in a single platform. It allows businesses to consolidate their data infrastructure, simplifying management and reducing operational costs.&nbsp;
 
 
 SingleStore operates with a sales model that includes direct sales and partnerships with technology and solution providers. It offers different pricing and licensing options tailored to the needs of its customers, including subscription-based models.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 SingleStore serves some of the largest tech and non-tech enterprises across various industries, including Comcast, Cisco, Akamai Technologies, Fiverr, Goldman Sachs, Sony, Siemens, Hulu.
 
 
 SingleStore partners with all major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud) and has technology partnerships with Dell, Red Hat, Intel, HP Enterprise, and Looker.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 As of June 2023, SingleStore&rsquo;s latest fundraising was in 2022 from a USD 146 million Series F round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Prosperity7 Ventures. The funds were slated to fuel SingleStore&rsquo;s growth and various strategic initiatives.
 
 
 
</div>

<div>
 
 D2iQ, formerly known as Mesosphere, is a cloud computing company that provides a comprehensive platform that enables enterprises to deploy and manage complex, data-intensive applications in a hybrid cloud environment.
 
 
 D2iQ offers a range of products to help enterprises build, deploy, and manage containerized applications. These products include the Kubernetes-based DC/OS (Distributed Cloud Operating System) platform for multi-cloud and edge deployments, the Kubernetes distribution Konvoy for consistent and scalable deployments, and the data services suite KUDO for easy deployment and management of stateful applications on Kubernetes.
 
 
 D2iQ's sales model involves a combination of direct sales and partnerships with cloud providers, resellers, and system integrators.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 D2iQ's customers include large enterprises, government agencies, and small and medium-sized businesses. The company's customers come from various industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and telecommunications.
 
 
 D2iQ has several strategic partners, including cloud platform providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as technology companies like NVIDIA, kubecost, and Cockroach Labs.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 D2iQ's most recent funding was in May 2018, when it raised USD 125 million in a Series D round.
 
 
 
</div>

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

<div>
 
 DataRobot provides an enterprise AI platform that can automate the building, deployment, and monitoring of advanced AI applications. Its unified AI platform offers developers the capability to build, govern, and operate models without extensive coding, accelerating model development and making machine learning more accessible.&nbsp;
 
 
 The platform offers several features, including training models with automatic performance evaluation, enhancing model interpretability and explainability, facilitating comprehension of predictions, deploying models to diverse targets such as cloud services, on-premises servers, and Edge devices, and governance and compliance features, encompassing access controls, audit logs, and version control to ensure alignment of machine-learning projects with organizational policies and regulatory standards. Moreover, the company provides consulting services through its AI professionals and service collaborators to assist clients in devising strategies and executing AI initiatives across various applications.
 
 
 In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23738">
 November 2023
 </a>
 , DataRobot introduced various updates, including LLM cost and performance monitoring, a multi-provider comparison playground, GenAI accelerators for faster GenAI deployment tasks, and a unified AI registry to enhance governance and collaboration across generative and predictive AI assets.
 
 
 DataRobot has made several acquisitions to expand its business, including Boston Consulting Group&rsquo;s SOURCE AI technology (June 2020), Zepl, a cloud data science and analytics platform (May 2021), and Algorithmia, an MLOps platform designed for complex, high-volume model production (July 2021).&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 DataRobot provides services to 40% of the Fortune 50 companies, including Kroger, Nationwide, Lenovo, and PNC.
 
 
 DataRobot has formed several significant partnerships, including a strategic partnership with Boston Consulting Group (June 2020) to combine DataRobot's intellectual property with BCG&rsquo;s consulting services and with SAP to integrate core SAP software with DataRobot's advanced machine-learning capabilities (March 2023). The firm has also partnered with leading tech firms, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, to integrate its solutions and expand the use cases of its GenAI solutions.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company's latest funding round was in July 2021, when it raised USD 300 million in a Series G funding round led by investors Altimeter Capital and Tiger Global. This round valued DataRobot at USD 6.3 billion post-money.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company aimed to use the funding to fuel platform innovation and enhance its global reach, including expanding its go-to-market team across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific/Japan and strengthening its Augmented Intelligence platform.&nbsp;
 
</div>

<div>
 
 Mythic is a developer of AI processor chips that combine hardware and software capabilities, facilitating faster memory access for Edge AI inferencing.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 Mythic&rsquo;s key products include its Mythic Analog Matrix Processor M1076 AMP and M1108 Processor.
 
 
 Mythic&rsquo;s proprietary Mythic Analog Matrix Processor M1076 AMP leverages the Mythic Analog Compute Engine (Mythic ACE) to provide GPU-level computational power with significantly lower power consumption. This enables edge devices to efficiently run complex AI applications at higher resolutions and faster frame rates, leading to improved inference results.&nbsp;
 
 
 Its M1108 Processor is designed to deploy Edge AI in a broad spectrum of applications, encompassing smart residences, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and video monitoring.
 
 
 The company's technology is distinguished by its analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architecture, which stores neural networks entirely on-chip, providing a more compact, power-efficient, and cost-efficient solution compared to traditional digital solutions. This technology allows Mythic to deliver high-performance AI processing, comparable to a desktop GPU, across a range of devices from low-cost drones to immersive AR headsets.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Mythic's products offer solutions across various uses and industries such as smarter cities and spaces, intelligent machines and robots, smart homes, AR/VR and metaverse, and drones and aerospace.&nbsp;
 
 
 Lockheed Martin is one of its largest customers.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16992">
 March 2023
 </a>
 the firm raised USD 13 million in venture funding. The company stated it planned to utilize the funds to finance the development of an enhanced energy-efficient AI processor.
 
</div>

<div>
 
 Lightmatter is a photonic computing startup that offers a full stack of photonics-enabled hardware and software solutions that claims to simultaneously reduce power consumption and increase performance.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 The company offers the following three products:
 
 
 Passage: This is a wafer-scale, programmable photonic interconnect device that enables arrays of heterogeneous chips to communicate and share data using photonics. This allows computer chips to share data with high bandwidth and extremely low latency that can be scaled up at low cost. It is claimed that Lightmatter has scaled up to supercomputing scales and provides more than 100x more bandwidth than existing chip-to-chip interconnect solutions.&nbsp;
 
 
 Envise: A general-purpose machine-learning accelerator that combines photonics and transistor-based systems. Envise is offered as a server blade form factor that offers up to 6.4 TB per second optical data interconnect for scaling up, one terabyte of DDR4 DRAM, and three terabytes of solid-state memory.&nbsp;
 
 
 Idiom: A software that allows developers to interface with standard deep-learning frameworks and AI model formats, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, or ONNX, to automate and optimize the deployment of models&nbsp; on Lightmatter hardware. The software features ML libraries, graph compilers, and debugging and profiling tools to fix and optimize model performance.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
 The uniqueness of Lightmatter&rsquo;s chips is that they typically use optical flow to solve computational processes like matrix-vector products and use an array of microscopic optical waveguides to let light pass through them to perform logic operations. This form of optimal computing can increase the power of the chip by using more than one color at once while reducing costs by not requiring expensive fiber-to-chip attachments. As a result, the firm claims its solutions are 5x more energy efficient and 200x more bandwidth, which reduces operating costs.
 
 
 
 Its pilot products are in the beta phase, and Lightmatter plans to begin mass production in 2024.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25010">
 December 2023
 </a>
 , Lightmatter raised USD 155 million in a Series C-2 funding round led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors to expedite its growth and expand its team.&nbsp;
 
</div>

Generating, collecting, and analyzing enterprise data will never be the same.

Edge Computing

Mythic specializes in developing innovative AI processors that leverage analog computing to enhance performance and efficiency.Mythic offers a unified hardware and software processor chip which enables edge artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing, by allowing AI systems to sift through their memory faster. The company launched its “Mythic Analog Matrix Processor” (Mythic AMP) in November 2020. The AMP looks to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying AI solutions, by enabling devices to analyze data and make decisions in real time without using data centers or the cloud. Accordingly, the chips can be used in a range of applications, including smart homes, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), drones, video surveillance, smart city, and factory automation.Mythic has developed the “M1076” AMP chip, which can deliver up to 25 TOPS of AI compute, and can also scale from the edge to server applications for multiple industries including smart cities, industrial applications, enterprise applications, and consumer devices.Furthermore, as per the company, the chips can deliver the AI compute performance of a desktop graphics processing unit (GPU), by consuming only a tenth of the power. It attributes this efficiency to its chips relying on analog currents and flash memory to perform their inference calculations.Its next product is the next-generation M2000 series product, which builds on the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor. The M2000 series is aimed at bringing even more efficiency and performance to edge AI applications in various fields such as defense, enterprises, industrial environments, smart cities, smart homes, and beyond.As a processor which is built for AI inferencing, it faces competition from a range of technologies including, system on chips (SoCs), tensor processing units (TPUs), GPUs, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).Funding and financialsIn February 2023, Mythic<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16992"> raised USD 13 million</a> in new funding from Atreides Management, DCVC, Lux Capital, Catapult Ventures, and Hermann Hauser to bring its M2000 series chip to market. During the same period, Mythic also appointed its co-founder and previous CTO, Dave Fick, as the new CEO.

<div>
 
 Pensando was established in 2017 by former Cisco engineers and came out of stealth in October 2019. The company provides processors and embedded software for data centers which enable companies to improve the flexibility of their servers. Its target market mainly includes enterprises and cloud vendors. Pensando&rsquo;s Distributed Services Card (DSC) is installed onto the edge servers and is utilized through the Pensando PSM (Policy and Services Manager).&nbsp;
 
 
 Leveraging its partnership with leading investor HPE, Pensando offers its processors for HPE devices. The Pensando PSM offers software-defined services at the edge, including telemetry, application identification, congestion monitoring, firewalls, etc.
 
 
 The company continues to invest in its engineering and go-to-market activities. For instance, Pensando expanded its client base with 10-12 large enterprise customers for which the company is doing Proof of Concept (PoCs). New capabilities from the PoCs should be rolled out in H2 2020.&nbsp;
 
 
 Pensando raised nearly USD 35 million in Series C funding co-led by Ericsson Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Liberty Global Ventures in August 2021 (inclusive of an undisclosed investment from Qualcommin November 2020). The company intends to build its 5G solutions by leveraging the newly raised funds and the strategic presence of Ericsson and Qualcomm, leaders in the 5G market. 
 
</div>

A new generation of building blocks for emerging tech

Next-gen Semiconductors

<div>
 
 Mythic offers a unified hardware and software processor chip which enables edge artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing, by allowing AI systems to sift through their memory faster. The company launched its &ldquo;Mythic Analog Matrix Processor&rdquo; (Mythic AMP) in November 2020. The AMP looks to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying AI solutions, by enabling devices to analyze data and make decisions in real time without using data centers or the cloud. Accordingly, the chips can be used in a range of applications, including smart homes, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), drones, video surveillance, smart city, and factory automation. 
 
</div>

<div>
 
 Ayar Labs develops and manufactures photonic interconnect solutions for high-performance computing and data center applications. Their products include a range of custom-designed photonic chips and interfaces that enable high-bandwidth, low-latency data transfer between processors and memory in data center systems.
 
</div>

Artificial intelligence is identifying and testing new therapies faster than ever.

AI Drug Discovery

<div>
 
 Flywheel operates a cloud-based medical research data management and collaboration platform which captures and curates clinical data from multiple sources such as imaging, electronic health records (EHRs), digital pathology and omics, to enable further processing and accelerate the drug discovery and development process. Flywheel's cloud platform automates tasks such as handling data and allows scientists to focus on new discoveries. It also offers tools for analyzing and visualizing data and can work with other AI and machine-learning platforms.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s services are targeted at companies in life sciences, clinical research, imaging research, and AI health development markets. Research institutions such as Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children&rsquo;s Hospital, and Swiss pharma giant Roche and its member company Genentech (
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/6854">
 November 2021
 </a>
 ) are among its clientele.
 
 
 In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24331">
 November 2023
 </a>
 , the company collaborated with Microsoft and NVIDIA to launch a SaaS data management solution on Miscrosoft Azure.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company raised USD 54 million In a Series D funding round in June 2023 led by Novalis LifeSciences and NVentures. The proceeds were earmarked to expand its reach into new markets and geographies, especially Europe. 
 
</div>

Now anyone can become a software developer.

No-code Software

<div>
 
 Unqork offers a patented cloud-based application platform that allows enterprises to build complex software applications in a visual environment without coding. The company specializes in financial services and insurance industries in an end-to-end digitalization and fulfillment platform. It aims to eliminate paper processing bottlenecks (such as policy issuance, servicing, and account opening).&nbsp;
 
 
 Unqork allows corporations to create forms for products such as insurance policies, annuities, retirement, bank accounts, asset management accounts, mortgages, and loans. The platform is capable of data collection through forms and analysis/processing based on user-defined rules. Unqork also uses technologies like machine learning and optical character recognition to extract handwritten and typed data. It also manages the infrastructure, security, scalability, hosting, and maintenance of user applications.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company has a global operational presence with offices in New York and London. It expanded its presence in Japan in February 2022 by adding to its sales and marketing teams to focus on growth in the region.
 
 
 In July 2022, Unqork 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11740?industryIds=14">
 opened up its marketplace
 </a>
 to third-party developers and other publishers enabling those who complete the company&rsquo;s certification program to submit their pre-built software tools, templates, and integrations to the marketplace. In October 2023, the company launched an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), named UDesigner, as well as an &ldquo;integration gateway&rdquo; that enables users to securely integrate over 700 third-party systems.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Unqork has also entered into solution partnerships with leading consultancy firms such as KPMG, EY, Deloitte, and CAPCO to jointly offer solutions.&nbsp; It also announced the availability of its platform on the AWS Marketplace in January 2022, enabling it to tap into a large network of over 310,000 global customers. It also expanded to Azure marketplace in March 2023, and Google marketplace in August 2023.
 
 
 Unqork partnered with Avo Automation, an intelligent no-code process discovery and test automation solutions provider, in 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8003">
 January 2022
 </a>
 , to accelerate the software delivery and growth for both companies. In March 2023, the company partnered with Rhino.ai, an AI-driven software migration platform,&nbsp; to launch a new software migration solution. Users can automatically extract workflows, schemas, data, and APIs, from legacy environments and platforms and migrate them onto Unqork&rsquo;s platform.
 
 
 The company went on to collaborate with Quantiphi, a digital engineering company, in August 2023, to launch an AI-powered underwriting platform (AiUP). The solution would combine technology from Dociphi, Quantiphi's intelligent document processing platform, Unqork&rsquo;s no-code platform, and Google Cloud's services and infrastructure to enable users to digitize and automate the insurance underwriting process.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company has a global customer base ranging from companies in the US to the Asia-Pacific region as well as Europe. This includes large global enterprises like&nbsp; John Hancock, Goldman Sachs, CareerWise, SMBC, and Liberty Mutual.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
</div>

New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

Greenly is a French carbon management startup particularly focused on SME customers. The company provides automated carbon accounting, AI-powered analytics, and a recommendation engine to reduce CO2 emissions. Greenly’s API uses businesses’ reporting process to get more granular data, which is then used to generate a carbon report according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol standards. In October 2023, Greenly launched its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22998">Climate Rating System</a> that assesses company performance in areas such as greenhouse gas emissions, climate strategy, and environmental initiatives to generate a Climate Score.Key customers and partnershipsThe company has integrated its mobile application for tracking carbon footprint in banking transactions into banks such as BNP Paribas, Tink, and Pixipay. In March 2023, Greenly partnered with <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230321006017/en/MetricStream-Partners-with-Greenly-to-Enable-Customers-to-Accelerate-ESG-and-Sustainability-Program">MetricStream</a> to include carbon accounting in the latter’s ESG disclosure reports. In October 2023, the company joined with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22818">Carbonfuture</a> to provide durable carbon removal credits to its customers. On the heels of this partnership, Greenly became a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates?industryIds=49">Xero App Partner</a> to integrate carbon accounting for Xero subscribers. As of February 2024, Greenly products were used by over 1500 companies, and the company had tracked more than 28 million tons of CO2 emissions.Funding and financialsThe company’s most recent funding was in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27816">March 2024</a>, when it raised EUR 48 million (USD 52 million) in a Series B funding round led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures. In <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/greenly-helps-you-measure-your-carbon-emissions-from-a-modern-dashboard/">April 2022</a>, the company raised EUR 21.27 million (~USD 23 million) in a Series A round co-led by Energy Impact Partners and XAnge investment fund to scale operations and teams across the US and Europe.In <a href="https://siliconcanals.com/crowdfunding/greenly-raises-2-53m/">September 2021</a>, Greenly raised EUR 2.53 million (~USD 3 million) in a funding round led by French Partners VC fund, BPI (French Tech Investment arm), Alexandre Prot, Bertrand Jelensperger, and Thibault Lanthier. The funds were used for the development of its B2B SaaS software.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

Dragos offers cybersecurity solutions for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT) which allows enterprises to obtain full visibility of their ICS/OT assets, analyze network traffic data and several other factors in order to identify malicious behavior across the ICS/OT network. The company reportedly employed 550 employees, but laid off 9% of its workforce citing sales slowdowns in June 2023.Dragos's product portfolio focuses on OT cybersecurity, offering the Dragos Platform for asset visibility, threat detection, and response, along with Threat Intelligence and Neighborhood Keeper for collaborative defense. It also offers professional services to complement these solutions, providing expert assessments and incident response​.Key customer and partnerships&nbsp;As of February 2024, the company served organizations across industries such as manufacturing, industrial, food and beverage, transportation, energy, and utilities, across over 20 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East.In terms of partnerships, Dragos collaborates with a wide array of entities to enhance its reach and capabilities. These partnerships often involve technology integrations, co-developed security solutions, and joint research initiatives. The company expanded its partnership with CrowdStrike in September 2023, announcing two new integrations allowing bilateral data sharing between the two platforms for deeper visibility into IoT assets. In January 2024, Dragos integrated with Industrial Defender to bolster its OT cybersecurity capabilities. Other notable names included CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Fortinet, GE, Palo Alto, PWC, ServiceNow, Cisco, AWS, and Splunk.Funding and financialsIn September 2023, Dragos <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21961">raised</a> USD 74 million in an extension to its Series D funding round led by WestCap at a valuation of USD 1.7 billion. The firm expected to use the proceeds to grow its customer base. Dragos raised USD 200 million from Koch Disruptive Technologies in its initial October 2021 Series D round. The company’s valuation remained static between the two rounds.Dragos reported revenue growth of over 535% between 2019 and 2022.

Foundation Models

<div>
 
 Aleph Alpha is a German technology company known for its collection of autoregressive (causal, decoder-only) transformer large language models (LLMs) under the Luminous series. The Luminous series includes three primary models:&nbsp;
 
 
 1.Luminous-Base, the smallest model in the Luminous family with 13 billion parameters (15 billion with multimodality) prioritizes tasks such as classification and labeling, and supports multimodal input capabilities to handle prompts consisting of a combination of images and text.
 
 
 2.Luminous-Extended, with 30 billion parameters (42 billion with multi-modality), excels in tasks such as information extraction and language simplification. It also supports multimodal input capabilities (images and text).&nbsp;
 
 
 3.Luminous-Supreme, with 70 billion parameters, excels in all natural language tasks and is particularly well-suited for creative text generation and tasks requiring deep text understanding.
 
 
 The Luminous models have been trained on a dataset that includes web crawls, books, political and legal sources, Wikipedia, news articles, and other specialized datasets. It was also trained on five of the most commonly spoken European languages: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
 
 
 Aleph Alpha provides access to these models through its API and playground and offers options for on-premise installations or AI-as-a-service. It prioritizes ethical use and transparency and offers explainability features for understanding model outputs. Additionally, Aleph Alpha claims to emphasize environmental responsibility by powering its data center with 100% renewable energy.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;
 
 
 As of August 2023, the platform served 10,000 customers across both business and government.
 
 
 In June 2022, the company partnered with Graphcore, which specializes in AI hardware and software, to jointly advance the research, development, and deployment of advanced multimodal AI models by leveraging Graphcore's hardware acceleration and Aleph Alpha's Luminous AI model for various applications across industries. In August 2023, Aleph Alpha partnered with Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai), an initiative focused on strengthening Germany's position in AI, to enhance AI development, promote ethical AI research and application, and establish a platform for applied AI in Europe to strengthen digital sovereignty and competitiveness.
 
 
 Funding and financials&nbsp;
 
 
 In November 2023, Aleph Alpha raised 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23546">
 USD 500 million 
 </a>
 in a Series B funding round. Major participants in this round were Bosch, SAP, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, along with Schwarz Group, Christ&amp;Company Consulting, Park Artificial Intelligence, and Burda Principal Investments. The new capital was anticipated to fund Aleph Alpha's research on foundation models. Moreover, it intended to utilize the funds for broadening its product capabilities and commercialization efforts.
 &nbsp;
 
 
 
</div>

In this new era where C02 emissions management has gone mainstream, Greenly allows companies to become frontrunners of the energy transition, building in-house capacity to track and reduce their emissions, more precisely and more simply. In stark contrast to one-shot consulting services, Greenly offers the first comprehensive carbon accounting & management platform, allowing companies to track and reduce their GHG emissions and set a course for Net Zero.  Greenly combines technology and expertise to deliver simple and reliable GHG protocol compliant carbon disclosure reports, Net Zero strategies in line with SBTi. We help procurement departments implement sustainable purchasing policies, score and engage their suppliers on their Net Zero strategy, and decarbonize their supply chain.  Greenly's unique product offering is to offer an industry-specific approach to tracking emissions, rolling-out activity based tracking apps for key verticals: freight, electricity, cloud, inventory management, financed emissions, etc... Learn more on www.greenly.earth

Aleph Alpha transforms human-machine interactions. The company researches, develops, and operationalizes AI-based technology for the public and private sectors. Its generative AI solutions enable enterprises and governmental organizations to build intelligent products.

Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow.  They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration.  With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from top universities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT. Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.

Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI. Untethered from the limits of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, they’ve rewritten the rules of processor performance scaling by combining electronics, photonics, and new algorithms to create a next-generation computing platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence. Lightmatter is building the engines that will power discoveries, drive progress, and reduce our impact on the planet.

WEKA is the AI-native data platform company that is setting the standard for AI infrastructure with the industry’s only cloud and hardware-agnostic software solution for performance-intensive applications. The WEKA® Data Platform delivers unprecedented performance at scale, transforming stagnant data silos into dynamic data pipelines that help enterprise AI, ML, and GPU workloads run faster and more efficiently and providing seamless data access on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and in hybrid and multicloud environments. WEKA helps hundreds of the world’s leading enterprises and preeminent research organizations overcome complex data challenges to reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster – including 11 of the Fortune 50.

Alation is incorporated in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.  Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. Alation was established on December 12, 2012 by Aaron Kalb, Satyen Sangani, Venky Ganti, and Feng Niu in Redwood City, California.

SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured data into a consolidated big data platform. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects. The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities. The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade.

Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company on a mission to safeguard civilization by protecting the world’s critical infrastructure. Dragos codifies the knowledge of the company's cybersecurity experts into an integrated software platform that provides customers with critical visibility into ICS and OT networks so that threats can be identified and addressed before they become significant events. The company's solutions protect organizations across a range of industries, including power and water utilities, energy, and manufacturing, and are optimized for emerging applications like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT).

VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

Mythic is a diverse group of individuals focused on developing cutting-edge analog matrix processors based on our unique analog compute-in-memory. Their products are the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor, MP10304 Quad-AMP PCIe Card, and MM1076 M.2 M Key Card. They offer AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.

DataRobot delivers AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.

Unqork is a no-code enterprise application platform that helps companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications. Its platform allows users to manage complex applications without writing a single line of code and streamlines the product sales process to improve customer experience that enables large companies to build complex custom software faster with higher quality and lower costs than conventional approaches. It offers solutions for insurance, financial services, and state and local government sectors. The company was founded by Gary Hoberman in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

StackRox helps enterprises secure their containers and Kubernetes environments at scale. StackRox delivers a Kubernetes-native container security platform that enables security and DevOps teams to enforce their security and compliance policies across the entire container life cycle, from build to deploy to runtime. The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform integrates with existing DevOps and security tools, enabling teams to quickly operationalize container and Kubernetes security. StackRox customers span cloud-native companies, Global 2000 enterprises, and government agencies. StackRox is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that protects organizations with unparalleled ethical hacker talent and proprietary scanning technology. Their solutions are application security, bug bounty, cloud security, industries, m and a and due diligence, penetration testing, public sector, vulnerability management, and bridging the talent gap.

Cohesity makes data work by consolidating secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that spans both private and public clouds. Enterprise customers begin by radically streamlining their backup and data protection, then converge file and object services, test/dev instances, and analytic functions to provide a global data store. Cohesity counts many Global 1000 companies among its rapidly growing customer base. CRN named Cohesity a Top 25 Disrupter and one of the 10 Coolest Hyperconverged Products of 2016.  Cohesity is a group of passionate individuals working together to bring innovation to the storage landscape. Their group has employees from renowned companies such as Google, Nutanix, Riverbed, VMware, Netflix, Aster Data, and others in the heart of Silicon Valley.

OpsRamp enables IT to control the chaos of managing their hybrid IT operations and act as a service provider back to the business. Built in the cloud, the OpsRamp service-centric AIOps platform drives total visibility across hybrid infrastructures, offers complete multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring and management of business-critical services, and optimizes services through automation and integration with ITSM and DevOps tools. Now enterprise IT can deliver IT operations as a service and power a digital operations command center that’s built for the challenges of modern, hybrid infrastructure.

Pensando Systems is advancing distributed computing designed for the New Edge, powering software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services to transform existing architectures into secure, ultra-fast environments demanded by next-generation applications. The platform was developed in collaboration with the largest cloud, enterprise, storage, and telecommunications leaders and is supported by partnerships and investments with HPE, NetApp, Equinix, and multiple Fortune 500 customers.

Fast Forward is an accelerator for social tech nonprofits. Its three-month accelerator provides a philanthropic grant, intros to mentors, a curated curriculum, and a community.

PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy-to-use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage real-time applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives the ability to easily connect and operate real-time applications and IoT devices.  PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco.

Agile Stacks provides DevOps automation platform for cloud infrastructure and machine learning. It helps companies to accelerate software delivery and data science with composable, automated stacks.  Agile Stacks is reinventing how enterprises implement multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code. Its cloud-based service makes that job easier. Customers can accelerate software delivery and data science by deploying composable, automated full-function software infrastructure within minutes. The company was founded in 2016 and based in San Mateo, California.

The University of Houston Data Science Institute is a global company that offers data from the edge to the cloud. They host computer clusters, including opuntia, sabine, and carya. They conduct research about scientific computing, robotics, image analysis, and visualization.

The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. Mesosphere's DC/OS makes executing and managing applications in a data center just like launching applications on a laptop by running them on Apache Mesos.

Platform9 is a open distributed cloud service, offering the power of the public cloud on infrastructure of customers’ choice, powered by Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.   Platform9 offers a way to go cloud-native. Platform9’s service powers 40K+ nodes across private, public, and edge clouds. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by leading investors. Platform 9 was established in 2013 by Sirish Raghuram in Mountain View, California.

Barefoot Networks is a team of visionaries, experienced technologists and engineers who have created a blueprint for designing and operating the world’s fastest and most programmable networks. Their goal is to make programming your network as simple as programming your CPU.

Linker is an innovative company focused on developing AI state-of-the-art software including AI platform, auto-labeling, and vision AI with real-time inference. Linker's machine learning technology delivers end-to-end AI continuous learning platform from cloud to edge that enables AI managed services for enterprises and mobile operators. Our goal is to together offer world class intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions for our customers to enable AI services efficiently. Currently there are ~8 employees in the Taipei office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent technology solutions. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a multinational information technology company that specializes in providing products, solutions, and services to businesses, governments, and other organizations. HPE was spun off from the original Hewlett-Packard (HP) company in 2015 when HP split into two separate entities: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE's focus is primarily on enterprise-level solutions, including servers, storage, networking, software, and consulting services. They cater to various industries, offering technologies for data centers, cloud computing, edge computing, and other IT infrastructure needs. HPE has a long history in the technology sector and is known for its contributions to the development of computing and IT systems.

<div> Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent technology solutions. </div>

Hewlett Packard Pathfinder

Cloud Tech (Q1 2024): Powering the GenAI revolution

Cybersecurity (Q4 2023): Product unification a priority; funding and M&A activity shrink

Composable enterprise: Tech be nimble, tech be quick

Need for speed: When the powers of 5G and Edge computing combine

Offers Converged Edge Systems which integrate open standards-based operational technology (OT) data acquisition and control directly into enterprise IT systems for running edge computing applications and analytics in ruggedized environments

Routers, servers and other

HPE Edgeline

Offers the HPE Edge Center, which is a single rack, modular edge data center that enables provides infrastructure for edge compute, network, storage, and control automation.

Data center

Edge Center

Offers a range of edge-to-cloud services via its GreenLake platform. It features networking solutions, edge compute, analytics and storage solutions as well as workload orchestration.

Edge application and other software

Green Lake

A secure networking solution briding on-premises, edge, and cloud networks

Cloud network security

HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud

HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric: A hybrid data integration software that unifies data into one data infrastructure and file system

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Featured Industries

EDGE Insights

Cloud Tech (Q1 2024): Powering the GenAI revolution

Cybersecurity (Q4 2023): Product unification a priority; funding and M&A activity shrink

Composable enterprise: Tech be nimble, tech be quick

Need for speed: When the powers of 5G and Edge computing combine

Recent Updates

HPE to acquire Juniper Networks to bolster AI offerings

Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches software suite for AI development

Versa, HPE Aruba extend SASE capabilities

Axis Security to be acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

About EDGE

Contact Us

Resources

Area of Focus

Technology Research Made Effortless