Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a business.  Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

Accel

83North is a global venture capital firm with more than $1.8B million under management. The firm invests across all stages of consumer and enterprise companies and backed some of the fast-growing category leaders. 83North has two main offices in London and Herzliya.

83North

Arena Holdings is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on technology-enabled innovation. The company was founded in 2016 by Feroz Dewan and is headquartered in New York.

Arena Holdings

T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm dedicated to funding technology startups. The firm serves individuals, financial intermediaries, and institutions and offers a full range of investment strategies across a broad spectrum: debt, equities, and private equities.

T. Rowe Price

Durable Capital Partners invests in small and mid-cap companies in both public and private markets. Their investment philosophy is grounded in sourcing small-cap and mid-cap compounders in both the private and public markets.

Durable Capital Partners

TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. It also provides management teams with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to world-class talent, and connections with category leaders.  Founded in 1995, the Silicon Valley-headquartered firm has invested more than $14 billion in over 350 growth-stage technology companies to date. Some of its most prominent portfolio company exits include Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow.

Franklin Resources is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. They have an extensive global presence, including offices in 35 countries and clients in more than 150. Their common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor’s 500:registered: Index. Franklin Resources Inc. NYSE: BEN is an investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN as in Benjamin Franklin, whom founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. admired. In 1973 the headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California. The firm specializes in conservatively managed mutual funds. It offers products under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary brand names. Like other large investment companies, the firm offers a wide variety of funds but is traditionally best known for bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand.

Franklin Templeton

Splunk Ventures

Sator Grove Holdings is a permanent capital investor, helping entrepreneurs, operators, and investors attain the extraordinary. Sator Grove Holdings is based in Bradenton, Florida, United States. It was established in 2021 and wants to invest in the healthcare industry.

Sator Grove Holdings

The QIA was founded by the State of Qatar in 2005 to strengthen the country's economy by diversifying into new asset classes. Building on the heritage of Qatar investments dating back more than three decades, its growing portfolio of long-term strategic investments helps complement the state's wealth in natural resources. Qatar's goal is to become an international center for finance and investment management, a vision shared by its government, people, and institutions. It has a track record of investing in different asset classes, including listed securities, property, alternative assets, and private equity in all the capital markets as well as the newer emerging markets.

Qatar Investment Authority

Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions. Neuberger Berman provides a broad range of global investment solutions to institutions and individuals through customized separately managed accounts, mutual funds, and alternative investment products. It was founded in 1939 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Neuberger Berman

Commonfund is an institutional investment firm that delivers solutions for strategic investors within both the nonprofit and pension investment communities. Commonfund was founded in 1969 with a two-part mission, to create investment solutions for nonprofits that previously did not have the scale and access to the best managers. As importantly, our charter was to also create educational programs that would bring the current best investment practices to institutional investors of all sizes and segments.  Insight that has helped grow fund values during an increasingly challenging investment environment. Commonfund has changed and grown dramatically since that time--expanding both our investment solution offerings and the client segments we serve. Yet, our mission has remained the same: to enhance the financial resources of our clients and to improve the investment management practices of our clients.  Today, Commonfund manages over $24 billion1 for nearly 1,500 institutions with a focus on three primary activities:  Outsourced solutions Alternative investment strategies Private capital   Our only business is investment management and we are active in all sectors of the global capital markets - in both public and private markets.

Common Fund

Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.

Blackstone Group

Activant is a global investment firm that partners with high-growth companies that are transforming commerce. The firm was founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino and has offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Berlin, Germany.

Activant Capital

Franklin Templeton India offers some of the best and top mutual funds in India. Buy a wide variety of mutual funds online. These enable the company to offer customers with a distinctive investing viewpoint formed by local experience, global context, and a long-term investment vision.

Founded in 2013, Alta Park Capital, LP is a San Francisco-based investment firm that focuses on public equities and private companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors.

Alta Park Capital

Celonis

Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

Ctrl is a UK-based sales workflow automation platform that helps streamline administrative workflows for sales teams. The platform features AI-powered tools to update CRM records, schedule meetings, send personalized emails, generate proposals, and perform analytics and reporting. It also integrates with CRM and workflow automation tools such as Salesforce, Hubspot, G Suite, and Slack.The platform claimed that it could speed up the completion of sales processes by 10x and customer-related duties by up to 40%.Funding and financialsIn April 2023, the company raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18100">USD 9 million in a funding round </a>led by LocalGlobe to further its expansion and scaling efforts, which include the launch of the full beta version of Ctrl's platform.

Ctrl empowers sales and customer success professionals to combine data from different platforms to create their own custom workspaces. With Ctrl, learning everything about a customer and updating each platform with future steps and follow ups is super fast and easy, saving time and headaches on manual updates while never leaving a single custom dashboard. Our vision is to eliminate data silos, making customer-facing work a lot simpler and more fun, and keeping your attention where it should be - your customers. Ctrl was established in 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, the Celonis Studio as well as platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manage every facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions and automation. Celonis has thousands of customers, including ABB, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Coca-Cola, Citibank, Dell, GSK, John Deere, L'Oréal, Siemens, Uber, Vodafone and Whirlpool. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA and has 15 offices worldwide.

<div>Celonis is an execution management company headquartered in Germany with operations in three continents including North America. It offers its clients execution management systems and process mining solutions, which helps them analyze processing data and identify inefficiencies. The company also has task mining solutions, which is a technology that analyzes desktop data and how it can be improved. It also offers a Celonis Free Plan and Celonis for Consulting (C4C+). Clients that have incorporated Celonis' systems into their organizations include Johnson &amp; Johnson, GE Healthcare, and Dell.</div>

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Celonis and TEC150 Enable Zespri to Deliver Millions in Value by Optimizing Operations with Process Intelligence

NEC Corporation

To integrate NEC's high-performance Japanese language generative AI with Celonis' market-leading process intelligence platform.

NEC Corporation and Celonis SE have signed an agreement to further expand their strategic partnership. The two companies will work together to develop and commercialize Celonis’ market-leading process mining technology by applying it to the NEC Digital Platform, a DX platform offered by NEC, and providing process mining services under the NEC brand.

Ctrl

Earlybird Venture Capital

LocalGlobe

Slack

Intercom

Dig Ventures

Jibe Ventures

Tools used for automating routine sales functions to improve the efficiency of sales teams.

MANN+HUMMEL

To accelerate MANN+HUMMEL’s digital transformation by implementing Celonis’ Execution Management System and supporting the migration to SAP S/4HANA, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing data-driven decision-making.

Zurich Insurance Group

To accelerate Zurich’s journey to become more data-driven as a business, whilst also working with the company to set up a dedicated Center of Excellence (CoE).

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.

Accenture

Accenture infuses Celonis process mining capabilities into its tools and platforms.

Wipro

To launch the Supply Chain Command Center to help organizations drive supply-chain transformation by identifying and fixing process bottlenecks and inefficiencies, gaining business insights, managing risks, and

Empowering efficiency, visibility and collaboration throughout supply networks

Supply Chain Tech

Platforms that help organizations optimize supply chain processes through demand, supply, operations, and scenario planning.

To drive operations transformation for clients by leveraging the Celonis Execution Management System and Wipro’s expertise, enabling customers to monitor, standardize, and control business processes, thereby improving efficiency, effectiveness, and customer experience while reducing operational costs.

Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Celonis have entered into a new global partnership to help customers streamline their business processes for greater operational resilience and efficiency.

Infosys

Together, Infosys and Celonis will enable enterprise customers to meet their digital needs by helping them to scale the adoption of SAP S/4HANA and SaaS platforms.

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 Celonis is an execution management company headquartered in Germany with operations in three continents including North America. It offers its clients execution management systems and process mining solutions, which helps them analyze processing data and identify inefficiencies. The company also has task mining solutions, which is a technology that analyzes desktop data and how it can be improved. It also offers a Celonis Free Plan and Celonis for Consulting (C4C+). Clients that have incorporated Celonis' systems into their organizations include Johnson &amp; Johnson, GE Healthcare, and Dell.
 
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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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dbt Labs

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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

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

Celonis

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