Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primary investments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.  Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

Idinvest Partners

Galileo Partners focuses on funding innovative companies in the Internet, software, electronics, semi-conductors, telecommunications, medical and media sectors.  Galileo Partners aims to foster investment in innovative technology but also in media and Internet, areas in which Galileo has already experienced major success. The team shares its entrepreneurial spirit, its operational and financial expertise and its vision of the market with enthusiastic and highly competent entrepreneurs in innovative technology businesses.  Since 1989, Galileo Partners has contributed to many major success stories which are still viewed as remarkable.  Gallileo Partners provides financing and strategic advice to its portfolio companies at every stage of their development cycle, from seed or expansion capital to the IPO stage for the â€œblock bustersâ€. Galileo Partners also supports spin-offs from large companies and turnarounds.   Galileo Partners currently manages â‚¬ 250 M of private equity capital from world-class international investors. Galileo Partners invests both as a lead investor and as a co-investor in syndicated venture financing with both international and French investors.

Galileo Partners

Chausson Finance is a French corporate finance â€œboutiqueâ€ focusing on venture capital fund raising for fast growing companies, mainly operating in the information technology and life science fields. Established in 1992 by Christophe Chausson, Chausson Finance is known as historical player within the European venture capital industry. Since its incorporation, Chausson Finance has provided the highest level of services to visionary entrepreneurs and helped them build their success stories. Beyond words, our track record speaks for itself with an aggregated amount of EUR 450 million raised over the past few years for the benefit of more than 130 companies. We are particularly proud to count in our credentials companies such as AlloCinÃ©, Corevalve, Delamaison, DxO Labs, MeilleurMobile, NetCentrex, Nexway, PurePeople, Sarenza, Talend, TvTrip, Viadeo, and many others which we helped emerge and build up.

Chausson Finance

Balderton Capital is a Venture Capital Investor that supports technology businesses. They support Founders at every stage of their journey. They provide advice, introduce portfolio leaders to professional service providers, and invite portfolio leaders to workshops and community events where they can meet one another.

Balderton Capital

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in leading technology companies.

Silver Lake

Sumeru Equity Partners is a technology-focused private equity firm, founded in 2014 by an experienced team from Silver Lake Sumeru, a $1.1 billion mid-market firm started in 2007 within Silver Lake.   Consistent with the strategy of its predecessor firm,* Sumeru Equity Partners invests in building leaders in software, technology enabled services, and hardware. SEP partners with management teams and adds value through deep sector expertise and the application of strategic and operating services.

Sumeru Equity Partners

Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle market technology companies with established business models and attractive growth prospects.

Silver Lake Sumeru

Talend

Talend is a cloud data integration and data integrity, that enables companies to transform by delivering trusted data at the speed of business, they offers a single suite of apps that shortens the time to trusted data by solving some of the most complex aspects of the data value chain.

<div>Talend is an open source data integration platform that offers several software services. The Talend Data Fabric is a unified platform for reliable, accessible data that combines data integration, data integrity and governance, and application and API integration. Stitch, its other product, is a fully managed data pipeline for analytics. Talend provides solutions for the healthcare, financial services, retail, government, and telecommunications industries for their operations, sales, product intelligence, and marketing departments. The company has partnered with Cloudera, Google, Databricks, Azure, AWS, and Snowflake.</div>

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 Talend is an open source data integration platform that offers several software services. The Talend Data Fabric is a unified platform for reliable, accessible data that combines data integration, data integrity and governance, and application and API integration. Stitch, its other product, is a fully managed data pipeline for analytics. Talend provides solutions for the healthcare, financial services, retail, government, and telecommunications industries for their operations, sales, product intelligence, and marketing departments. The company has partnered with Cloudera, Google, Databricks, Azure, AWS, and Snowflake.
 
 
 
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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

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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 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.

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

Talend

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