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Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Domino Data Lab provides an Enterprise MLOps platform that enables organizations to develop, deploy and manage machine learning models at scale. The platform acts as a system of record for data science, offering tools and infrastructure for the complete AI lifecycle - from data access and model development to deployment and monitoring. The Domino Enterprise AI Platform enables data scientists to use their preferred tools, languages, and infrastructure while providing enterprise-level governance and collaboration capabilities. As of March 2023, the platform includes support for open-source ML tools like Ray 2.0, MLflow, and Feast's feature store, enabling advanced AI applications including generative AI development. The company also offers Domino Code Assist (DCA), launched in February 2023, which helps organizations democratize data science by enabling business analysts to generate and work with Python and R code. The platform reduces the time to begin building and launching data models from weeks to minutes. A case study showed that Lockheed Martin achieved USD 20 million in annual cost savings and a tenfold increase in productivity after implementing Domino's platform. In June 2024, Gartner named Domino Data Lab a Visionary in its Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms, recognizing the company's strong market position and continued innovation.
Key customers and partnerships
Over 20% of Fortune 100 companies use Domino's platform across industries including life sciences, financial services, public sector, and insurance. The company maintains partnerships with technology providers like NVIDIA for accelerated computing capabilities and Snowflake for data cloud integration. Lockheed Martin uses the platform across 300+ data scientists for building ML models in aeronautics design and factory operations. Direct Line Group leverages the platform's Ray integration capabilities for distributed training jobs. Evidation utilizes the platform to work with person-generated health data.

Datometry is empowering global enterprises to gain competitive advantage by up-leveling their data management to become cloud-native quickly and effectively. With the company’s suite of SaaS solutions, enterprises can replatform existing data warehouses to the cloud at up to 80% savings of replatforming time, cost, and risk, and without application rewrite. Powered by Datometry Adaptive Data Virtualization™ technology, the company’s SaaS offerings include: Datometry Hyper-Q™, the flagship product enabling replatforming of existing applications on any cloud database in real-time; Datometry qInsight™, the only product in the market to provide unprecedented insights into data warehouse workloads; and, Datometry qShift™ automating the generation of optimized destination data warehouse schema.

Nasuni is a hybrid cloud storage solution that provides a scalable file data platform designed to meet demands of modern enterprises operating in hybrid cloud environments. Its cloud-native architecture enables scalability, built-in security, and fast Edge performance. The Nasuni File Data Platform consolidates Network Attached Storage (NAS) and backup systems, eliminates data silos, and streamlines management without requiring changes to existing applications or workflows.&nbsp;In addition, its continuous file versioning technology captures file changes as frequently as every few minutes and stores them as immutable versions in the cloud object storage, which enables rapid ransomware recovery by allowing organizations to restore individual files, entire file shares, or complete volumes to a point in time just before a ransomware attack occurred, minimizing data loss and avoiding costly ransom payments.In March 2024, Nasuni launched Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3, a cloud-native, distributed solution that allows enterprises to accelerate data access and delivery times while ensuring low-latency access crucial for Edge workloads, including cloud-based AI/ML applications.&nbsp;Additionally, in February 2024, Nasuni <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26938">introduced Nasuni IQ</a>, a data intelligence capability that helps enterprises manage, assess, and prepare their unstructured data environment for AI. Nasuni IQ provides enhanced visibility and insights, proactive data management, and data curation for AI initiatives.Key customers and partnershipsNasuni's customer base spans various industries, including manufacturing, construction, energy, consumer goods, and the public sector. As of January 2024, Nasuni catered to 800 enterprise customers, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, across over 70 countries. Key customers include Tommy Bahama, Patagonia, Aedas, Oshkosh Corporation, the State of Vermont, and Autodesk.

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 With 80% of product analytics done outside first-generation tools and needing the help of Data &amp; Analytics teams, it&rsquo;s time to rethink product analytics.
 
 NetSpring's next-generation product analytics solution brings the analytical power of BI to product analytics, working directly off your data warehouse.
 
 - Self-serve answers to any question, starting from a rich library of reporting templates, through ad hoc visual data exploration 
 - Avoid writing and maintaining complex SQL for funnel/path-type queries, but have the option of leveraging SQL for specialized analysis 
 - Combine product instrumentation with any business data in your data warehouse for context-rich analytics
 
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Alation is a data intelligence platform founded in 2012 that enables organizations to catalog, discover, understand and govern their enterprise data assets. The company's flagship product, Alation Data Catalog, allows users to search and access data using natural language queries while providing context through metadata management. The platform automatically crawls and inventories data from various sources like data warehouses, lakes, and business intelligence systems, using machine learning to parse technical metadata, user permissions, and business descriptions. As of 2024, Alation's platform includes capabilities for data governance, lineage tracking, quality management, and collaboration features through dedicated apps. The company achieved over USD 100 million in annual recurring revenue by November 2022, with its data catalog solution starting at USD 60,000 for a 12-month subscription. In addition to its core catalog offering, Alation provides connectors for integrating data from various sources and a Data Governance App for creating and enforcing data management policies.
Key customers and partnerships
Alation serves over 570 enterprise customers across 32 countries as of 2023, including major corporations like Cisco, General Mills, Munich Re, Pfizer, Nasdaq, Salesforce, and eBay. The company counts more than 25% of Fortune 100 companies as clients, spanning industries such as finance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, retail, insurance, and technology. In the public sector, Alation's customers include the US Environmental Protection Agency and Australia's Department of Defense. In November 2022, Alation formed a strategic partnership with Databricks to jointly develop engineering, data science, and analytics applications leveraging both companies' platforms. The company also maintains technology partnerships with major cloud platforms and data warehouse providers, with a particular focus on the Snowflake and Databricks ecosystems.

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 Striim is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for enterprise analytics and operations. Striim offers a self-managed or fully-managed (SaaS) platform that makes it easy to set up smart data pipelines to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data from enterprise databases such as Oracle (using non-intrusive change data capture), log files, messaging systems, and sensors, to virtually any target such as Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Snowflake with sub-second latency enabling real-time operations and analytics and unleashing innovation.
 
 The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
 
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SingleStore provides a distributed SQL database for operational applications and analytics systems.&nbsp;The company’s flagship product, SingleStore Helios, is a cloud database-as-a-service that provides elastic scalability and high performance for both transactional and analytical workloads.&nbsp;The platform's capabilities include data ingestion and query processing, catering to a range of data types such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. SingleStore's system is designed to support real-time analytics, serving SaaS builders, data leaders, and digital disruptors in optimizing their data analytics processes. The company also offers a version of its platform called&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25938">SingleStore Pro Max</a> that incorporates on-demand compute for GPUs and CPUs, faster data ingestion and egress through updated change data capture (CDC) capabilities.The company also offers features such as SingleStore Kai, an API which offers real-time data warehousing, hybrid search combining vector and full-text capabilities, and a compute service for AI applications and ML workflows, as well as data integration tools with native change data capture (change data capture (CDC)) and extract, transform, and load (extract, transform, and load (ETL)) functionalities.In October 2024, SingleStore&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34396">acquired BryteFlow,</a> a data integration platform, to integrate BryteFlow's capabilities into its core product to create a feature called "SingleConnect." This allows its clients to operationalize and ingest data from their CRM and ERP systems at scale for real-time data insights as well as GenAI use cases.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, SingleStore serves Fortune 500 companies including Comcast, Cisco, Akamai Technologies, Fiverr, Goldman Sachs, Sony, Siemens, and Hulu.SingleStore has partnered with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud and also has technology partnerships with Dell, Red Hat, Intel, HP Enterprise, and Looker as of September 2024.

VAST Data engages in developing data infrastructure technologies, with a focus on applications in AI. VAST Data offers a range of products for AI and deep learning, including VAST DataStore for scalable unstructured data storage, VAST DataSpace for global cloud data access, VAST DataBase, which combines database, data warehouse, and data lake features, and the upcoming solution, VAST DataEngine, for advanced data computing​​​​​​.The company's approach emphasizes innovation in storage solutions for AI applications with an aim to streamline traditional data management techniques through its technology and services. The company's primary offering, VAST Data Platform, was introduced in 2019, with the first module announced being the VAST DataStore, a scalable unstructured data storage solution, designed to eliminate tiered storage.VAST DataSpace, launched in 2023, offers global data access across various cloud platforms and allows data computation from public, private, or edge cloud platforms, while VAST DataBase combines the features of a traditional database, a data warehouse, and a data lake, offering transactional and analytical performance at large scales. It's built for rapid data capture and quick queries.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, VAST Data claimed the following notable organizations among its customer base; this included global businesses like Pixar, CoreWeave, Lambda, Zoom, Verizon, NASA, and the US Department of Defense.The company also partnered with certain data infrastructure solution vendors and other technology partners as of November 2023, such as Splunk, Run:AI, Veeam, NVIDIA, and Lenovo, to expand its product’s reach and reliability. Its recent <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26610">partnership</a> with Run:ai to create a comprehensive solution integrating AI functionality, including computing, storage, and data management for large-scale initiatives.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

Cloud 66 is a cloud-native technology company that provides Skycap, a container deployment tool designed to simplify the deployment and management of containerized applications. Cloud 66 Skycap offers a holistic set of features to facilitate the container deployment workflow. It enables users to define and manage container-based application stacks using popular containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Cloud 66 Skycap follows a subscription-based sales model. Funding and financials Cloud 66’s latest funding was in September 2015 from a USD 1 million seed round led by Wayra, Christian Thaler-Wolski, and Jason Seats

JFrog is a DevOps and software automation company providing a suite of solutions aimed at optimizing and accelerating software development processes.Artifactory by JFrog is a universal binary repository manager, enabling organizations to store, manage, and distribute software artifacts efficiently. JFrog's platform integrates seamlessly with various development tools, including CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated and streamlined software delivery. Additionally, its Xray product offers advanced security scanning and vulnerability analysis for enhanced code quality and security. With a commitment to automation, scalability, and security, JFrog plays a vital role in helping businesses achieve faster, more reliable software releases.The JFrog platform powers continuous updates. It claims to integrate with any development environment and works across open-source, on-premise, or any cloud.JFrog offers its platform through a subscription-based sales model.In 2021, JFrog acquired Upswift, a management solution for connected device fleets for an undisclosed sum, and Vdoo, an integrated security platform provider for connected IoT and embedded devices, for USD 300 million. Both companies were absorbed into JFrog.Key customers and partnershipsOver 7,200 of JFrog’s customers operate in industries such as finance, insurance, banking, health, retail, technology, mobile games, and esports. These include Yahoo, Cisco, Hitachi Vantara, Oracle, Splunk, VMWare, Netflix, Google, Atlassian, Chef, and Woven Planet.Amazon Web Services (AWS), 4Data, Atlassian, CircleCI, Datadog, DevTools, Docker, Google Cloud, Gradle, HashiCorp, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, Red Hat OpenShift, Slack, Splunk, PagerDuty, Maven, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are among JFrog’s partners.

Iguazio is an Israel-based AI and machine-learning company that offers an enterprise data science and machine-learning operations (MLOps) platform. The Iguazio MLOps Platform automates data science workflows from end-to-end, accelerating the process of development of AI applications to deployment to management. The platform enables the ingestion and processing of data from any source, training of models at scale, deployment, and monitoring and retraining of models, reducing the time taken to create business value with AI. In 2023, Iguazio was acquired by McKinsey &amp; Company to accelerate and scale AI deployments for its clients. The Iguazio team was set to be integrated with McKinsey’s QuantumBlack AI team. Iguzio follows a direct sales model. Key customers and partnerships The company serves customers in the financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, AdTech, gaming, and healthcare sectors. Its customers include Google Cloud, Intel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA, Samsung, Ecolab, Sheba Medical Center, NetApp, Payoneer, PadSquad, and Microsoft Azure. Iguazio’s partners include AWS, Google Cloud, Intel, Rackspace Technology, Snowflake, Boston Limited, Microsoft Azure, and Seagate. Funding and financials Iguazio concluded a venture funding round in January 2020 when it raised USD 24 million, led by INcapital Ventures.

Redis is a leading player in the real-time data processing and management space.Redis offers a suite of real-time data processing and management solutions, centered around Redis Enterprise and Open-Source Redis. Redis Enterprise enhances the capabilities of Open-Source Redis by providing an enterprise-grade data platform that supports modern data models, management, automation, and scalability for deploying and running applications at any scale. It provides high availability, with features like active-active geo-distribution and instant failover.Redis's offerings also include a rich set of data structures, in-memory caching, search, real-time analytics, and support for multiple programming languages, making it versatile for various use cases across industries.​ It also offers a tool named Redis Data Integration (RDI) that allows customers to move the contents of external databases into Redis for caching, automatically copying records, and syncing changes. Redis Copilot, an AI assistant, provides guidance on database usage, generates queries from natural language prompts, and performs related tasks.Redis provides a Cloud and Software version of its Enterprise product. The pricing follows a subscription-based model.The company has acquired three companies: RESP.app (November 2022), RDBTools (April 2019), and Redis Weekly (April 2017).Key customers and partnershipsRedis Enterprise is used by notable companies like AngelOne, Microsoft, Tiffany &amp; Co, BNP Paribas, British Airways, Telus, and SiriusXM.Redis’s cloud partners include AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and VMware. Additionally, the company has technology partnerships with leading technology companies like Suse, Red Hat, Hashicorp, databricks, and Intel.

SingleStore is a company that provides a distributed SQL database platform for real-time analytics and operational applications.SingleStore’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.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 partnershipsSingleStore 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 financialsAs of June 2023, SingleStore’s latest fundraising was in October 2022 from a USD 30 million Series F round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Prosperity7 Ventures. The funds were slated to fuel SingleStore’s growth and various strategic initiatives.

Lightbend is an enterprise software company that provides cloud-native microservices frameworks for building distributed systems.\Lightbend specializes in building reactive, scalable, and resilient applications, offering a suite of products to cater to these needs. Its flagship products include Akka, which provides a toolkit and runtime for developing distributed and fault-tolerant systems, and Lagom, a reactive microservices framework that simplifies the creation of microservices-based applications. These tools enable developers to build robust, highly concurrent applications that can handle the demands of modern, distributed computing environments. Additionally, Lightbend offers Play Framework for creating scalable web applications and tools like Lightbend Telemetry and Lightbend Console for monitoring and managing application performance in real time.Lightbend follows a subscription-based sales model.Key customers and partnershipsLightbend’s customers operate in industries such as entertainment, energy, financial services, retail, and consulting. Notable customers include DHL, IBM, Oracle, Verizon, Cisco, Deliveroo, and John Deere.Some of Lightbend’s strategic partners are Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cognizant, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft Azure, Hexaware, YoppWorks, and Red Hat. Its Platinum partners include Bahwan CyberTek, Applaudo, Mind Consulting, VirtusLab, Thornton Tomasetti, and Lunatech.Lightbend has acquired two companies; OpsClarity (2017) and BoldRadius (2016).Funding and financialsLightbend’s latest funding was in November 2021 from a USD 6.9 million venture round.

Mirantis is a technology company that provides cloud-native software and services to help businesses modernize their IT infrastructure.Mirantis specializes in open-source software, focusing on Kubernetes, OpenStack, and related technologies. Its core offering is the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, a managed Kubernetes service that provides a complete set of tools for deploying and managing containerized applications. The platform helps organizations adopt and scale Kubernetes quickly and easily, with features like automated provisioning, integrated monitoring, and self-service access to resources. Mirantis also offers professional services including consulting, training, and support for Kubernetes, OpenStack, and related technologies.Mirantis sells its products and services through a subscription-based model. Customers can choose from various annual subscription plans, depending on their needs.Key customers and partnershipsMirantis focuses on enterprise customers who deploy and manage large-scale private clouds. Some of its high-profile customers include Volkswagen Group, Société Générale, S&amp;P Global, Paypal, Volkswagen, and GSK.Mirantis also has technology partnerships with several companies, including Arm, Cisco, Entrust, and Fujitsu, and hardware vendors like Dell EMC, Intel, and Supermicro.

Tetrate is a technology company that specializes in providing enterprise-grade service mesh solutions.Tetrate offers its Tetrate Service Bridge platform and consulting services to simplify the adoption and management of service mesh technologies. It focuses on security, observability, and interoperability while actively contributing to the open-source community.The unique selling proposition of Tetrate Service Bridge lies in its ability to simplify and streamline the adoption, management, and operation of service mesh technology across diverse environments while offering advanced traffic management, observability, and security features.Additionally, the company offers Tetrate Istio Subscription (TIS), a curated instance of the open-source Istio service mesh. The subscription includes support and patches for six months beyond Istio's eight-month support period. Tetrate utilizes a direct sales model for its cloud-native networking and service mesh solutions.Key customers and partnershipsTetrate's technology partners include major cloud service providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat. Tetrate also has several integration partnerships with Mirantis, Cequence, Keyfactor, and Jetstack.Its key customers include Visa, Morgan Stanley, Freddie Mac, Box, US Air Force, Gap, Sony, Square, and GitHub.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates">April 2024</a>, Tetrate partnered with the United States Air Force (USAF) Platform One team to launch AuthService, an open-source project, to simplify the deployment and management of the existing authorization service for the Istio service mesh.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 Cequence Security offers a platform for enterprises to safeguard their APIs and web applications from bot attacks by detecting and mitigating them in real-time. The platform also provides protection against account takeover, unauthorized data access, fraudulent transactions, and fake account creation. The company uses its proprietary CQAI analytics engine that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to detect malicious traffic and bot attacks.
 
 
 As of June 2021, the company has also partnered with AWS, Fastly, Gigamon, and Okta to enhance its product offerings. These deals allow Cequence to bundle offer API and web application security alongside its partners&rsquo; products.
 
 
 Following the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the company recorded a growth of 2.5x and claims to have recorded a &ldquo;pretty high ARR&rdquo; in 2020. As of December 2021, the company doubled its customer base year-over-year (YoY), and served more than 85 global brands including several Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as T-Mobile, Est&eacute;e Laude, and American Express. The company also had an employee headcount of over 100, which it intends to expand to over 250 by 2022.
 
 
 In December 2021, the company raised USD 60 million in a Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The company expected to utilize the funds to expand its product features, product portfolio (with plans to launch a new self-service subscription solution in 2022), team, co-marketing activities, and global presence in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
 
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 Halcyon is an anti-ransomware and cyber resilience platform with automated encryption key capture and autonomous decryption capabilities. The company&rsquo;s platform leverages Capsule Networks (CapsNets) AI micro-models to train, test, and deploy protection mechanisms to address threats. The platform is designed to mitigate and counter both widespread and targeted ransomware attacks before they can execute or cause damage, using cutting-edge machine learning techniques trained exclusively on ransomware threats.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company uses several layers in order to prevent ransomware; if a single layer fails, Halcyon is able to respond accordingly. The company has further designed an autonomous isolation and recovery layer as a last resort for preventing the spread of ransomware. The platform can be deployed and managed entirely via API and is designed to be compatible with EPP/EDR/XDR, allowing organizations to deploy alongside existing solutions.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;
 
 
 In June 2023, the company formed a collaboration with Revelstoke Security to improve the efficiency of security operations teams. The partnership involved integrating the cyber resilience and attack prevention capabilities of the Halcyon platform with the low-code security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) functionalities offered by Revelstoke.
 
 
 In May 2023, the company partnered with CISO Global to provide an integrated security offering to address ransomware and other cybersecurity threats.
 
 
 Funding and financials&nbsp;
 
 
 In April 2023, the company raised 
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 led by SYN Ventures. The company planned to use the fresh funds to develop and test its ransomware resilience platform, which Halcyon claims is the first cybersecurity solution to be designed specifically to combat ransomware.
 
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Lightspin provides a platform for enterprises to protect their cloud and container environments. The platform is agentless and scans a company’s cloud assets to identify all relationships, detect misconfigurations, map potential attack paths, and provide remediation actions. Lightspin uses a patented graph-based approach to map relationships and identify security risks, which is combined with external information from third-party threat intelligence providers, and predictive algorithms to obtain a full picture of critical items and potential attack vectors across an organization’s cloud environment.Lightspin’s platform also integrates with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and GitLab to help developers identify security issues in cloud-native applications during the build stage.In March 2023 , networking solutions provider CISCO, announced its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17434">intent to acquire Lightspin </a>in a deal that was estimated to be in the range of USD 200 million–250 million.In June 2021, Lightspin raised USD 16 million in a Series A funding round led by Dell Technologies Capital for product development and tripling its workforce from 20 to around 60 individuals.

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 Netskope provides cloud security solutions for enterprises that include cloud-delivered secure web gateways (SWGs), cloud access security brokers (CASB), and other solutions to manage access to cloud workloads. These solutions help companies monitor the use of cloud applications and identify suspicious behavior. Netskope&rsquo;s tools attempt to replace legacy solutions such as VPNs. The company introduced a unified solution in 2019 called &ldquo;NewEdge,&rdquo; combining its security technology offerings and providing them under secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. The rollout followed the acquisition of New Edge Labs in 2019 for an undisclosed amount, in line with its strategy of acquiring smaller startups to fuel expansion. Netskope also acquired Sift Security in 2018, which provides a machine learning-based tool to detect and respond to threats to cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) applications such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Netskope joined the cohort of Solista&rsquo;s Zero Trust Alliance in July 2021, to assist Australian organizations in developing a toolset and framework in assessing their zero trust readiness while detecting and remediating internal and external threats.
 
 
 NewEdge is delivered using data centers in 40 regions worldwide including North America, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, enabling a low-latency cloud security offering. As of March 2021, the company had invested in excess of USD 100 million to build the NewEdge infrastructure. The company claimed that its tools protected more than 10% of Microsoft Office 365&rsquo;s commercial users as of the same date.
 
 
 Netskope&rsquo;s product offerings were backed by more than 100 global patents as of January 2023, and the company served more than 2,400 customers globally including more than 25 of the Fortune 100 companies. Furthermore the company has a total employee headcount of more than 2,500 in more than 40 countries.
 
 
 In April 2023 Netskope announced 
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 the addition of a new software-defined wide area network
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 In June 2023, 
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 Netskope updated its secure service edge (SSE) platform
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 to help address data leakage risks of generative AI applications like ChatGPT. The updated platform allows organizations to track usage of generative AI applications, manage access controls, and automatically prevents leakage of sensitive information.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In July 2021, Netskope partnered with cybersecurity company, Chillisoft, to accelerate sales for cloud-based SASE protection to 1,250 resellers and integrators, including more than 100 managed service providers (MSPs) across New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
 
 
 Netskope 
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 acquired the IoT security startup
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 WootCloud in June 2022 integrating WootCloud&rsquo;s HyperContext Security platform with its Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE) platform to expand its SSE and Zero Trust capabilities. This was followed by the 
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 acquisition of cloud networking vendor
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 Infiot in August 2022 to deliver an integrated single-vendor SASE platform to its customers by leveraging Infiot&rsquo;s technologies to offer a uniform security and quality of experience (QoE) policies to the Netskope Borderless WAN.
 
 
 Netskope 
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 In January 2023, the company 
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 raised USD 401 million in convertible notes
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Generating, collecting, and analyzing enterprise data will never be the same.

Edge Computing

SiMa.ai is a machine learning company delivering machine learning (ML) systems on chips (SoCs) for devices to facilitate edge usage.SiMa.ai's product lineup is centered around its MLSoC™ platform, specifically engineered to meet the demands of ML deployment at the embedded edge. The company also offers MLSoC™ Boards and the MLSoC™ DevKit 2.0, along with Palette Software 1.1 and Palette Edgematic™, integral components of its ecosystem. These products are designed to facilitate the development, evaluation, and deployment of computer vision and other ML applications with increased performance and efficiency​​. It also offers&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33381">MLSoC™ Modalix</a>, a product family for multimodal Edge AI that supports various AI models, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers, large language models (LLMs), language models with memory (LMMs), and GenAI at the edge.The MLSoC Development Kit is priced at USD 1,995 enabling developers to compile, evaluate ML models, and create proof-of-concept use cases for computer vision ML applications.SiMa.ai announced the launch of a design center in Bengaluru, India, in January 2021. The company intends to expand its engineering and operations teams to the region, covering a range of roles, including board development, infrastructure, and system applications. The Bengaluru operation complements SiMa.ai’s existing operations in Silicon Valley and Serbia.Key customers and partnershipsSiMa.ai caters to a broad spectrum of sectors, including smart vision, automotive, robotics and industry 4.0, healthcare, drones, and government.In June 2023, the company<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19374"> launched its Partner Program</a>, which includes a number of strategic go-to-market partners including e-con Systems, Inventec Corporation, LIPS Corporation, and iWave. SiMa.ai enables its partners to develop solutions to increase customer ML adoption via its machine learning system on a Chip (MLSoC) platform.

IOTech provides open and vendor-neutral software platforms and tools to build, deploy, and manage IoT edge applications. The platforms cater to multiple industries, including building and industrial automation, oil and gas, smart energy, and retail, among others. IOTech is part of Linux’s EdgeX Foundry (vendor-neutral open source IoT project) to further its goal of building a common framework for the edge. The company is also backed by Dell Technologies Capital.In June 2020, the company launched “Edge XRT” (which was announced in 2019), primarily to simplify the development of time-critical IoT systems at the edge. Furthermore, in December 2020, it partnered with the leading security company, RSA, to enhance its platform’s security monitoring.In February 2021, IOTech released its “Edge Xpert” platform, to deliver IoT edge capabilities which mainly rely on vision related data, such as those from camera devices. It enables software models which rely on object detection, classification, and recognition. Accordingly, the platform caters to a range of industries, including retail, manufacturing, transportation, and venue management.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23900">In November 2023,</a> the company introduced “Edge Central,” an open data platform, which is designed as a one-stop-shop solution, to help businesses utilize their edge data without running the risk of vendor lock-in. Key functionalities of Edge Central include connectivity and control with devices and sensors at the edge, innate data processing, data flow to and from diverse cloud systems, and a modular, open architecture. Moreover, it is flexible and can operate on any device, including IoT gateways, industrial PCs, or edge servers.Key customers and partnershipsThe company expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to offer both IOTech’s platforms for Google Cloud’s enterprise customers in November 2021. Users will be able to use IOTech’s platforms to deploy smart, no-code, and integrated edge-cloud solutions to extract and process data from a range of OT devices.In recent years, IOTech has formed several partnerships to drive innovation. In January 2024, the company partnered with SHIFT Energy to focus on enhancing energy efficiency in building heating and cooling systems and partnered with Advantech in September 2023 to provide advanced edge data processing solutions for smart manufacturing and industrial automation. Additionally, in January2023, IOTech collaborated with LATERAL.systems to accelerate innovation in the emerging smart farming markets.Funding and financialsIn August 2023, IOTech <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21366">raised an undisclosed amount of growth funding</a> in a round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Along with the funding, the company announced its expansion in the North American market. Accordingly, the funds were earmarked for investments in accelerating product development and supporting go-to-market activities in the region.

Graphcore provides a microprocessor for AI and ML applications (dubbed intelligence processing units [IPU]) that allows developers to build, train, and deploy AI/ML models in the cloud using its Bow Pod hardware systems, which are designed for production deployment in enterprise data centers, private, or public cloud. The Bow IP‍U‍ is also the world’s first AI processor to use Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) 3D stacking technology, delivering 350 teraFLOPS of AI compute.In addition, the company’s Poplar graph framework software is designed with the IPU and integrates with ML frameworks to port existing models and run AI applications. Graphcore also provides a set of open-source code graph libraries to support ML models and an engine that executes models and streams data through models running on IPUs.Graphcore was <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31430">acquired by Softbank</a> in July 2024 to bolster its AI capabilities and tap into the growing demand for AI hardware. Graphcore will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank, retaining its name, headquarters in Bristol, and additional offices in the UK, Poland, and Taiwan.Key customers and partnershipsThe company serves customers in the finance, biotech, research, and consumer internet sectors. Notable customers include Citadel, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, Carmot Capital, and Stanford Medicine.It partnered with Spell, a company specializing in operationalizing AI, to develop IPU-based infrastructure that allows developers to run AI applications quickly and easily at scale. In addition, it collaborated with Aleph Alpha to enable bulk semantic embedding on the latter’s Luminous-Explore model supporting semantic search.Funding and financialsIn December 2020, the company raised USD 222 million in a Series E funding round led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board at a valuation of USD 2.77 billion. The funds were used to accelerate future IPU silicon, systems, and software development and drive further global expansion.In 2022, the company reported revenue of GBP 2.7 million (USD 3.3 million), 46% lower than the previous year, and its net losses worsened 18.4% YoY to GBP 198.8 million (USD 245.9 million).

The toolkit to build machine learning applications at scale

Machine Learning Infrastructure

Domino Data Lab provides an enterprise MLOps platform that allows users to collaboratively build, train, deploy, and manage models. The platform delivers automated experiment tracking through its Reproducibility Engine along with delivery, deployment, and monitoring features on any infrastructure through self-service web forms, scheduled reports, and APIs. The platform also offers an integrated model factory that allows model development, deployment, and monitoring with a system of record that documents reusable code, artifacts, and learnings from previous experiments in a central repository.The platform’s standard license includes unlimited consumer licenses, user and admin training sessions, technical support and advice, and new platform releases.Key customers and partnershipsDomino Data Lab counted more than 20% of the Fortune 100 and served customers in the financial services, health and life sciences, insurance, and other sectors. Notable customers include GSK, Bayer, Cox Automotive, Johnson &amp; Johnson, and Topdanmark.Funding and financialsIn October 2021, the company raised USD 100 million in a Series F funding round led by Great Hill Partners. The funds were utilized to accelerate its product innovation and growth. In June 2022, the company raised an undisclosed amount in an extended Series F funding round from Snowflake Ventures.

SiMa.ai offers Machine Learning System on Chip (MLSoC) hardware that is built on ARM application processors and designed to deploy ML models at the embedded edge. It features low operating power and high ML processing capacity to support legacy applications and ML use cases and comprises software tools and libraries for application development. The processing system of MLSoC comprises computer vision processors for pre and post-processing images, dedicated machine learning acceleration, and application processors that can be used in computer vision applications, such as smart vision and robotics.In addition, SiMa.AI offers a free visual development environment for ML for edge applications called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21771">Palette Edgematic </a>. The platform allows developers to create, evaluate, and fine-tune ML applications through a no-code approach using a secure browser. It allows real-time monitoring of performance metrics and can instantly convert visual pipeline representations into executable code with a single click. The company also offers a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24935">MLSoC Development Kit </a>–priced at USD 1,995–that allows developers to compile and evaluate their ML models and create proof-of-concept use cases. The kit contains everything required to evaluate, prototype, and demonstrate computer vision ML applications on the developer board using the contained SiMa.ai MLSoC.As of January 2023, the company operated in the US and India.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33382">September 2024</a>, SiMa.ai launched MLSoC Modalix, a new product family for multimodal Edge AI that supports various AI models, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers and LLMs.Key customers and partnershipsThe company serves customers in the government, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics and industry 4.0, and smart vision industries.SiMa.ai launched a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19376">Partner Program in June 2023 </a>, which will include a number of strategic go-to-market partners including e-con Systems, Inventec Corporation, LIPS Corporation, and iWave. Through the program, it aimed to enable its partners to develop solutions to increase customer ML adoption via its own MLSoC platform.

Iguazio provides a serverless platform based on its open-source Nuclio framework that helps users to develop, deploy, and manage real-time AI applications without requiring them to manually manage underlying infrastructures such as servers and storage. The platform creates real-time intelligence for applications located at the edge, public cloud, and on-premise data centers and reduces bandwidth constraints by consolidating data into a repository and making it available for applications as required. The platform can ingest and transform data from any source, which is then used to train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor models in production.The company leverages Big Data and ML software such as Apache Spark, TensorFlow, and Kubernetes to manage software containers that enable applications to run across different computing environments.Key customers and partnershipsIguazio serves customers in the financial services, telecommunications, smart mobility, manufacturing, retail, AdTech, gaming, healthcare, energy, and utilities sectors. Notable customers include Samsung, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AWS, Google, and Intel.Funding and financialsIn January 2020, the company raised USD 24 million in a funding round led by INCapital Ventures. The funds were utilized to accelerate its growth, expand its reach into new global markets, grow sales, and facilitate new sales channels that include companies such as Dell Technologies

Autonomous and connected technologies shaping the future of the auto industry

Auto Tech

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 Otonomo (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Urgently, a provider of digital roadside and mobility assistance technology and services) is an Israeli startup offering a vehicle data platform to ingest, secure, cleanse, normalize, aggregate, and enrich car data from vehicles. Ottonomo&rsquo;s platform can be used for applications such as emergency services, mapping, traffic management, electric vehicle (EV) management, subscription-based services, micro-mobility, parking, predictive maintenance, insurance, media, in-vehicle services, and smart city solutions. The company has operations in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. As of February 2024, the company has sourced data from more than 50 million vehicles (with 18 million active vehicles) and tracked 330 billion miles while ingesting an average of 3.4 billion data points a day.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
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SiLC Technologies is a silicon photonics company that focuses on photonic sensor and 4D imaging for applications including autonomous vehicles, security, industrial automation, and robotics. It develops a 4D LiDAR chip called “Eyeonic Vision Sensor” equipped with unique frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) technology for high sensing capabilities. The sensor can provide instantaneous depth, velocity, and dual-polarization intensity information and is available in several objects detection range settings between 50 and 500 meters.The company launched the product commercially <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15766">in January 2023 </a>and it was available for purchase and shipping worldwide at prices based on the configuration. SiLC Technologies claims to be the only company to integrate an FMCW imaging system on a cost-effective silicon platform.Key customers and partnershipsSiLC Technologies has product partnerships with companies including Hong Kong-based Cloud Light, a manufacturer of advanced optical modules, to commence volume production of Eyeonic sensors (in June 2022), and automotive semiconductor company Indie Semiconductor, to develop LiDAR for next-gen sensing applications <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20654">(August 2023).</a>

Tools that streamline software development

DevOps Toolchain

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 JFrog is a software company specializing in DevOps and software supply chain management. The company's core product, JFrog Artifactory, serves as a universal artifact management platform, supporting over 30 technology types including Docker, Maven, NuGet, Chef, Puppet, Ruby, Python, git, Gradle, Vagrant, and php. JFrog's platform aims to provide a secure, single source of record for the entire software supply chain, enabling companies to manage and release software updates efficiently.
 
 
 
 
 The JFrog Platform encompasses several products designed to streamline the software development lifecycle. JFrog Xray offers advanced security features for DevOps, helping teams identify and fix security issues across the DevOps pipeline, including exposed secrets, open-source vulnerabilities, infrastructure as code (IaC), container security, and license compliance. JFrog Distribution facilitates secure software distribution at scale across various environments. JFrog Pipelines orchestrates software releases and manages the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. JFrog Connect focuses on updating, controlling, and managing IoT devices at scale.
 
 
 
 
 JFrog's platform supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, allowing organizations to maintain their tool choices and deployment targets without compromising speed or availability. The company has developed features to cater to AI/ML teams, simplifying model development, deployment, and management by treating machine learning models as software components. JFrog also offers the JFrog CLI for automating development pipelines and performing on-demand scans, JFrog Projects for organized resource management, and JFrog Workers for extending platform functionality through custom plugins.
 
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Lightbend provides a cloud-native microservices platform for building distributed applications. The company's flagship product is Akka, a toolkit for developing concurrent distributed applications based on the actor model. Akka enables the creation of highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant event-driven applications for Java and Scala. In 2022, Lightbend changed Akka's license from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License (BSL) 1.1, requiring paid licenses for companies with over USD 25 million in annual revenue to use Akka in production.
Lightbend also offers Kalix, a serverless-based managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that simplifies cloud-native application development. Kalix manages aspects of building scalable, data-centric microservices and APIs, eliminating the need for databases, caches, service meshes, and API gateways. The platform supports traditional Key Value state models as well as Event Sourcing and CQRS, enabling the development of large-scale high-performance applications. In February 2023, Frost & Sullivan recognized Lightbend with the 2022 North American Serverless Computing Company of the Year Award for Kalix.
The company provides various tools and services to support the development and deployment of reactive applications. These include Lightbend Telemetry for monitoring and insights, and the Lightbend Academy, which offers training courses on Akka and reactive architecture. Lightbend reported revenue of USD 20 million in 2021 and has raised approximately USD 80 million from investors.

Threat Prevention Toolchain

Endor Labs is a software company that specializes in dependency lifecycle management for open source software (OSS). Founded in 2022, the company offers a platform designed to help organizations safely evaluate, maintain, and update dependencies in their software development processes. Endor Labs' technology employs deep program analysis and graph analysis to understand how dependencies are being used within an organization and create indicators of risk. The platform provides tools for measuring security and operational risk, as well as removing unused or unmaintained dependencies. It also helps generate and analyze accurate Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) to provide a single source of truth for an organization's software inventory.
The company's approach goes beyond traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools by offering context on how developers are using dependencies. This helps reduce false positives and allows for better prioritization of vulnerabilities. Endor Labs' platform performs deep analytics on each OSS dependency to uncover potential security and operational risks beyond known vulnerabilities. The company reported that even though 71% of typical Java application code comes from open source components, applications use only 12% of imported code. Endor Labs' technology enables organizations to eliminate or de-prioritize up to 60% of remediation work by providing insights into which code is actually reachable throughout an application.
Key customers and partnerships
Endor Labs has engaged with significant customers and prospects during its development phase. Over 75 major organizations provided feedback that was incorporated into the product during its first year. As of October 2022, the company was in private beta with several companies ranging from 200 to 35,000 employees.
In July 2023, Endor Labs announced its integration with Google Cloud, aiming to help organizations secure their software supply chains. This partnership allows customers to use Endor Labs' Dependency lifecycle Management solution on Google Cloud, enabling security and development teams to accelerate development by safely maximizing software reuse.

Cymulate is a comprehensive cybersecurity platform offering continuous security validation through simulated attack scenarios. Founded in 2016 in Rishon LeZion, Israel, Cymulate helps organizations proactively identify vulnerabilities and strengthen their defenses against evolving cyber threats. The platform provides automated security assessments across various attack vectors, including email, endpoints, networks, and applications. Cymulate employs the MITRE ATT&CK framework to simulate realistic cyber attacks, allowing organizations to assess the effectiveness of their security controls and protocols under pressure. The solution can be deployed quickly via a cloud-based platform, with some assessments requiring a lightweight agent that serves as a proxy.
Cymulate's key features include continuous security validation, attack simulation, automated testing, and customizable assessments. The platform provides detailed reports and analytics that highlight vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, helping organizations prioritize security investments and allocate resources effectively. Cymulate integrates with existing security tools and frameworks, enhancing visibility and coordination across the security stack. The platform also helps organizations meet regulatory compliance requirements by identifying security gaps and ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations.

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

AI Drug Discovery

Israel-based Ibex Medical Analytics is an AI-driven cancer diagnostics company helping physicians and healthcare professionals diagnose cancer in biopsies through its AI platform, Galen.The company has deployed its cancer detection solutions, Galen Prostate and Galen Breast, which it claims are routinely used by pathologists to detect hard-to-diagnose cancers. The company is also partnering with drug manufacturers to develop AI-markers that can accelerate oncology drug development. Ibex combines data from digitized glass slides and electronic medical records with AI tools to find insights that can advance pathology and oncology research.Key customers and partnershipsIbex is currently focused on growing its customer base in North America and Europe. The company’s diagnostic solutions are deployed at Medipath, France-based private pathology labs, Maccabi’s Pathology Institute, Israel’s largest pathology lab, LDPath, a leading provider of digital pathology services to the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, among others.The company entered into partnership with many pharmaceutical companies, including; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/indica-labs-and-ibex-partner-to-deliver-ai-powered-clinical-workflows-for-digital-pathology/">Indica Labs </a>(May 2021) to integrate their respective digital pathology solutions, HALO AP and Galen; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/ibex-and-sana-kliniken-berlin-brandenburg-partner-to-bring-ai-powered-cancer-diagnostics-to-germany/">Sana Kliniken Berlin-Brandenburg </a>(July 2021), to deploy an AI platform for cancer diagnostics; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/roche-announces-collaboration-with-ibex-medical-analytics-to-develop-artificial-intelligence-based-digital-pathology-applications-for-improved-patient-care/">Roche </a>(October 2021), to develop an embedded image analysis workflow for pathologists to access Ibex's AI algorithms; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/dedalus/">Dedalus Group </a>(March 2022), to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to digital pathology; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/hartford/">Hartford HealthCare </a>(March 2022), to conduct a clinical research study using Ibex's AI-powered cancer diagnostics solution, Galen Breast; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/leading-uk-diagnostics-provider-source-ldpath-expands-ai-capabilities-with-ibex-medical-analytics/">Source LDPath </a>(December 2022), to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the entire pathology network at Source; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/collaboration-astrazeneca/">AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo </a>(January 2023), to develop an AI-powered product that aids pathologists in accurately assessing HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) scoring in breast cancer patients; <a href="https://ibex-ai.com/alverno-agreement/">Alverno Laboratory </a>(March 2023), to expand the deployment of Ibex’s Galen Suite of AI solutions to the entire Alverno network.In <a href="https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/roche-ibex-and-amazon-partner-for-ai-enabled-digital-pathology-solutions/?cf-view">October 2023 </a>, the company partnered with Roche and Amazon to enable pathology laboratories to access Ibex’s tools through Roche’s Navify digital pathology software platform.Funding and financialsIn September 2023, the company raised USD 55 million in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21626">Series C </a>funding round led by 83North. The funds were used to expand Ibex's presence in the US and grow its product portfolio.

Facial recognition delivers incredible convenience to consumers, as well as serious risks.

Facial Recognition

Oloid is a provider of software solutions offering secure privacy-forward tools for facial recognition at work. The company’s FaceVault platform provides contactless access control specially targeted deskless workers in healthcare and manufacturing industries. The technology can be integrated into existing access control infrastructure.Key customers and partnershipsOloid's technology has been implemented by several notable enterprises. Flex, a global manufacturing company, utilizes Oloid's solutions to maintain workplace security standards. Egnyte implemented Oloid's access management system to enable mobile access for its employees, eliminating the need for physical badges. The company also serves Cammebys Management, which uses Oloid's mobile access retrofit solution across its diverse property portfolio. In February 2022, Oloid partnered with Honeywell to develop next-generation physical access and digital identity solutions. In November 2022, the company partnered with Tyson Foods to provide frontline workers with passwordless access to various applications through an Oloid-Okta integration, enabling employees to access payroll, benefits, and job instructions on tablets

Speeding up sales, cutting costs, and preparing for the future of retail—whether brick-and-mortar or online.

Retail Industry Robots

Based in France, Exotec develops an automated order picking system named “Skypod” for retailers, which is capable of prioritizing orders for optimum responsiveness by automating the movement of goods from bin storage to workstation.The company’s Deepsky software uses mathematical models to control its fleet of bin-carrying robots to ensure continuous activity. Deepsky software can be integrated with Exotec’s software and third-party automation equipment. It can also collect data for improved performance visibility. The Skypod system can be integrated with the rest of the warehouse logistics chain or used as a standalone fulfillment system.Key customers and partnershipsExotec’s retail customer partnerships include retailers such as Carrefour, Ariat, Supplyweb, Cdiscount, and Monoprix. As of April 2023, Exotec had deployed 5,000 Skypod robots.Exotec partnered with Advanced Handling Systems (AHS), a system integrator and provider of material handling and storage systems, to deploy Exotec’s solution in North America. AHS has deployed Exotec’s solutions for Ariat International, Comoto Holdings, and Gymshark.

Quantum information processing is slowly becoming a reality, ushering in a new technological era.

Quantum Computing

Israeli quantum computing company Quantum Source develops quantum computers with the aim of scaling up to millions of qubits, using its photonic technology. The technology harnesses light particles (photons) as qubits that can operate at room temperature and are easier to scale as it leverages existing fiber-optic-based telecommunication infrastructure. The company’s method to create photons and quantum gates is reportedly 5x more efficient than the most advanced method in use.Founded in 2021, Quantum Source intends to build fault-tolerant quantum systems that are capable of solving complex real-life problems in the fields of drug discovery, material development, cyber security, and more.Funding and financialsIn its latest seed funding round in April 2023, the company raised <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230419005176/en/Quantum-Source-Raises-12M-to-Propel-Continued-Development-in-Photonic-Quantum-Computing">USD 12 million </a>led by Dell Technologies to expand its technical team.

The innovative cost dynamics of serverless computing allow more customers onto the cloud without breaking the bank.

Serverless Computing

RunPod offers a cloud computing platform that provides serverless GPU computing for AI and machine learning applications. Users can deploy container-based GPU instances for AI inference and model training using both public and private repositories. It also supports AI frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. RunPod provides a choice between deploying via T3/T4 data centers or individual compute providers on a secure peer-to-peer system.&nbsp;Furthermore, the platform offers fully managed AI endpoints that are designed for a number of GenAI applications such as Dreambooth, Stable Diffusion, and Whisper. Users can automate workflows and manage compute jobs via a command line interface/GraphQL API and access multiple points for coding, optimizing, and running AI/ML workloads.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

The company provides automated data governance solutions for organizations and integrates with existing enterprise applications. The platform is used by leading companies in the industries of finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. Some of the platform features include assigning access rights, implementing purpose-specific controls, and performing encryption or redaction on data to keep sensitive information secure.By leveraging the platform’s governance and security features and access controls, an organization can accelerate compliance with regulations such as GDPR. The company also has partnerships with compliance solution providers such as BigID to complement their privacy offerings.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s platform is used by leading companies in the industries of finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company claims notable companies such as Swedbank, Thomson Reuters, and Instacart among its customer base.Immuta has a long-standing partnership with Databricks, a data infrastructure firm, and provides data security and access controls to users of the Databricks Unity Catalog governance platform.

Property owners and real estate companies are able to handle larger portfolios while offering faster and cheaper services.

Residential PropTech

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 DocuSign offers eSignature tools to facilitate the management of electronic agreements. These tools enable users to upload and send documents that require signatures, with other features such as checking the status, sending reminders, and storing documents online. The company offers its services to many sectors, including real estate, healthcare and insurance.&nbsp;
 
 
 For the real estate sector, DocuSign automates many transaction processes by providing electronic signing of documents, online notarizations, and a&nbsp; collaboration workspace for the relevant parties (buyers, sellers, agents, etc.). DocuSign claims it helps the property sector reduce paper costs and speeds up the process, while reporting that around 82% of documents sent through its platform get signed within a day.&nbsp;
 
 
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 DocuSign went public in 2018 and was valued at around USD 4.4 billion at the time of its listing.
 
 
 For FY2024, DocuSign reported total revenue of USD 2.8 billion (up 10% YoY), compared to a total revenue of USD 2.5 billion recorded for FY2023. The company reported a non-GAAP net income of USD 622.9 million for FY2023, compared to a non-GAAP net income of USD 418.9 million recorded a year ago.
 
 
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Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Jarvis ML is an AI-powered personalization engine allowing brands to personalize customer journeys to improve customer experiences. The firm was founded by a former senior staff engineer at Google, who led the development of the machine learning (ML) platforms behind Google Payments and Google Ads. The platform leverages algorithms to learn a firm’s sales, customer, and inventory patterns. This allows it to build pricing and promotion prediction models to enable the personalization of customer experiences including personalized marketing campaigns,&nbsp; product pricing, promotions, recommendations, and concierge services. Jarvis ML is offered as a fully managed “machine learning-as-a-service” solution where firms can integrate its JavaScript software development kit (SDK) to various customer touchpoints including websites and apps. The firm also has a team of in-house analysts to provide advisory services for deploying ML solutions to improve its performance.&nbsp;&nbsp;The firm claims that it provides an enterprise-level ML platform that is accessible to firms of all sizes without the need for technical expertise while reducing the time taken to deploy ML capabilities by 100x.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsJarvis ML’s solutions cater primarily to ecommerce and hospitality brands, which include Twiddy &amp; Company Vacation Rentals.&nbsp;The firm’s platform is also integrated with leading ecommerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce) and other marketing automation platforms (Salesforce, Klaviyo, Hubspot, Mailchimp) in order to extend its capabilities.

Marketplaces and related solutions for selling goods and services online

Ecommerce Platforms

FullStory is a digital experience intelligence (DXI) platform that enables businesses to continuously improve their digital customer experience across websites and mobile apps. The platform automatically captures user interactions and retroactively analyzes this data, providing actionable insights into areas of user frustration, struggle, and drop-off.
FullStory's patented Data Engine processes billions of data points, transforming previously unnoticed, unstructured, and unindexed information into structured digital experience data. This allows teams to recreate individual customer sessions, identify issues through features like rage click detection, and connect quantitative metrics with qualitative user behavior insights.
Key product offerings include Session Replay for visualizing user interactions, Funnels & Conversions for tracking drop-offs, Journey Mapping to understand the full customer journey, and user segmentation capabilities. FullStory provides over a dozen pre-built workflows and integrates with tools across categories like analytics, product management, customer data platforms, and more.
By understanding the "how" and "why" behind user behavior, teams can make data-driven improvements to optimize digital experiences, increase conversion rates, and drive business growth. In June 2022, FullStory reported helping customers achieve significant uplifts, with one client seeing 200% higher conversions and 310% higher sales after using the platform.

AI, robotics, and IoT to streamline the flow of goods and information

Logistics Tech

Based in France, Exotec Solutions (Exotec) develops warehouse automation solutions. Its main offering “Skypod,” is an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) with the ability to prioritize orders by automating the movement of goods from bin storage to workstations. Skypod units are powered by autonomous mobile robot (AMR) technology and have the ability to travel at high speeds and move in 3D environments.Skypod system is supported by Exotec’s end-to-end warehouse software, “Deepsky,” which uses technologies such as Webservices, RESTful API, and nodeRed to control elements of the Skypod system. Exotec can be integrated with warehouse management and warehouse control systems and enables Skypod to be integrated with third-party automation equipment. It also collects real-time data for performance visibility.Exotec’s other warehouse solutions include “Skypicker, ” an automated picking arm that uses machine learning-based vision to pick items from the Skypod robots and place them into fulfillment containers, and “Skypath,” an API-based modular plug-and-play conveyor system. It also builds stations made up of a ramp, a screen, and scanners for smaller warehouse spaces that use Skypod robots.The company offers its products on a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) basis and has a presence in multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.Key customers and partnershipsAs of February 2022, Exotec served over 50 companies. Its customers include Decathlon, Carrefour, Cdiscount, Uniqlo, Gap, Monoprix, Logilec,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26080">Lane Automotive,</a> <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35243">Auchan Retail Luxembourg,</a> <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36779">BlueStar</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36913">Hygie31 and Hartmann Group</a>.The company also has partnerships with system integrators such as 1) <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24045">Bastian Solutions </a>and Advanced Handling Systems (AHS) to deploy Skypod systems in North America for retailers such as Gap, Ariat International, and GEODIS; 2) Korea-based engineering and IT service provider POSCO DX to expand its presence in South Korea. Its other integrator partnerships include Hy-Tek Intralogistics, Bastian Solutions, Klinkhammer Intralogistics, Unitechnik Systems GmbH, A1Sorter, LAC Conveyors &amp; Automation, Dexter Intralogistics, POSCO DX, Okura Yusoki, and IHI.&nbsp;

Automation in clinical diagnostics to improve speed and accuracy in patient diagnosis and treatment.

Clinical Decision Support Systems

Ibex Medical Analytics (Ibex) is transforming cancer diagnostics with its Galen platform, an AI-powered suite of solutions for pathologists and diagnostic laboratories. Galen is the most widely deployed AI technology in pathology, used in routine clinical practice worldwide to support pathologists during the review of breast, prostate, and gastric biopsies.
The platform employs deep learning algorithms trained by a team of pathologists, data scientists, and software engineers. It provides an integrated solution for cancer diagnosis and biomarker scoring, capable of detecting more than 100 different cancer and non-cancer pathologies. Galen offers enhanced interoperability with scanning systems, image management solutions, and lab information systems.
Through its AI-powered workflows and decision support tools, Galen aims to improve the quality and accuracy of cancer diagnosis, implement comprehensive quality control, reduce turnaround times, and boost productivity with more efficient workflows. The technology has demonstrated outstanding outcomes across multiple clinical studies, enhancing diagnostic quality, efficiency, and user experience for pathologists.
In September 2023, Ibex secured USD 55 million in Series C funding, bringing its total funding to over USD 100 million since its inception in 2016. The company has achieved significant milestones, including the deployment of Galen at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in the US, nationwide rollout across Wales in the UK, and collaborations with pharmaceutical companies for developing AI-powered biomarker scoring products for breast cancer.
Ibex was acquired by an undisclosed company in November 2023 for an undisclosed amount.

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

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 DocuSign is a leading provider of electronic signature solutions, enabling individuals and businesses to securely sign, send, and manage documents digitally. The company's core product, DocuSign eSignature, allows users to upload documents, add signature fields, and request signatures from multiple parties. DocuSign's technology supports various document types and integrates with popular cloud storage platforms.
 
 
 
 
 As of 2024, DocuSign reported over 1 billion users across 180 countries. The company's platform is designed to streamline document workflows, reduce paper usage, and accelerate business processes. DocuSign's technology ensures the confidentiality of transactions and provides a comprehensive audit trail for each completed signature event. In addition to basic e-signature capabilities, DocuSign offers features such as templates, bulk sending, and automated reminders to enhance efficiency.
 
 
 
 
 DocuSign has expanded its offerings beyond e-signatures to include contract lifecycle management tools. In May 2023, the company acquired Lexion, an AI-powered agreement management firm, to enhance its capabilities in this area. DocuSign's platform also supports features like payment collection, advanced form fields, and PowerForms for embedding signable documents on websites.
 
 
 
 
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 DocuSign serves a diverse range of industries, including real estate, healthcare, financial services, and technology. The company has partnerships with major technology firms to enhance its integration capabilities. For instance, in March 2024, DocuSign announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate its e-signature solution into SharePoint, allowing users to initiate signature processes directly from Microsoft 365 applications.
 
 
 
 
 DocuSign also collaborates with Google, offering integrations with Google Workspace applications such as Google Drive, Docs, and Gmail. In July 2023, DocuSign partnered with Sandbox Banking to enhance and automate agreement workflows for financial institutions, integrating DocuSign's Maestro tool with Sandbox's Glyue platform.
 
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Platforms to make the most of cloud infrastructure

Cloud Optimization Tools

Immuta provides an automated platform that can be integrated with existing enterprise applications for data governance and security.Immuta’s data security platform integrates data discovery, security, and detection for a unified view of the data posture. It continuously scans cloud environments, allowing users to tag and classify data, creates policies for protection, and prioritizes and addresses risks to improve data security posture management. Further, users can write data policies in plain language, which are then automatically enforced in query time natively to accelerate compliance with regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA.Several notable features of the platform include automated, dynamic access controls, zero-trust architecture, encryption and redaction, and differential privacy.Immuata operates a direct sales model.Key customers and partnershipsImmuta is used by companies in the finance, healthcare, public, technology, media, and manufacturing sectors. Some notable customers are Mercedes Benz Group, Sony, Thomson Reuters, US Customs and Border Protection, ModMed, and Roche.Immuta has several technology alliances (Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst, and Okta) and cloud integrations (AWS, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure) to aid enterprises simplify its operations and derive value from data.

Empowering efficiency, visibility and collaboration throughout supply networks

Supply Chain Tech

TagNtrack is a tech company that specializes in advanced asset tracking and management solutions. The company offers a platform called “RELATIVITY,” which integrates with RFID and IoT technologies, providing real-time visibility and traceability of shipments and valuable assets. Apart from location tracking, the solution harnesses the power of smart sensors to provide its users with real-time information about the asset’s physical condition, including temperature/humidity, acceleration, pressure, tampering, and light. It is also capable of delivering business intelligence in the form of dashboards, custom reporting, alerts, rules engine, and advanced analytics to supply chain and asset management operations of organizations. The company's platform and solutions primarily target multi-model logistics, packaging, and manufacturing industries and are designed to easily integrate with existing ERP, warehouse management systems, transportation management systems, and manufacturing line vision systems. Funding and financials In January 2022, the company raised USD 10 million in Series A funding led by Dell Technologies Capital. The round also saw the participation of Merck Global Innovation Fund and Aerosafe Global Inc. The proceeds were intended to expand the company’s operations and business reach.

Ensuring the right people access the right resources at the right time

Identity & Access Management

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 Descope is an identity management platform that helps developers build secure and frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application. Founded in April 2022, it offers a platform that allows developers to add authentication, user management, and authorization capabilities to their consumer and business applications with just a few lines of code.
 
 
 Descope's platform provides a visual workflow designer and screen editor that allows developers to create authentication flows and user-facing screens without writing any code. It also offers software development kits (SDKs) and APIs for those who prefer coding. The platform supports various passwordless authentication methods, including magic links, biometrics (based on WebAuthn), authenticator apps, and social logins. It helps validate, merge, and manage identities across the user journey, ensuring a unified view of users.
 
 
 Descope enables organizations to make their business applications enterprise-ready by providing features like single sign-on (SSO), access control, tenant management, and automated user provisioning. It also enhances user protection by allowing the easy implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA), step-up authentication, or biometric authentication within applications. Additionally, Descope helps prevent account takeovers and other types of fraud by stopping bot attacks, credential stuffing, and session hijacking.
 
 
 In December 2023, Descope introduced Fine-Grained Authorization, a service that allows customers to create granular authorization models based on relationships between entities, offering more flexibility than traditional role-based access control (RBAC) systems.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Descope targets small to mid-market software development teams looking to outsource authentication and user management workloads to third-party vendors.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In February 2023, Descope raised USD 53 million in a seed funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, TechAviv, J Ventures, Cerca, and Unusual Ventures, among others. The funds raised were earmarked for product development and R&amp;D.
 
 
 
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Making cold chains faster, smarter, and cooler.

Cold Chain Innovation

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 TagNTrac is an IoT platform that provides integrating multimode technologies typically hardware, software, and data to build solutions.
 
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Twine Vision is to create AI digital cybersecurity and introduce virtual digital employees to work alongside human teams.

OLOID provides passwordless identity and access solutions, converging cyber and physical security. Physical identity factors such as access card, face, palm scan, etc. for frictionless login into devices and SSO systems. OLOID integrates digital identity seamlessly across HR, IT, and records systems creating a unified passwordless authentication platform for shared devices. With physical security and time clock integration, OLOID is able to provide seamless and secure authentication across the day of a deskless worker. The Sunnyvale, California-located company was established in 2019.

Distyl AI works with organizations to increase their AI readiness and develop integrated AI-based solutions specific to their unique data, workflows, and workforce requirements. It helps enhance their AI readiness and build dependable, integrated AI-driven services tailored to their distinct data, workflows, and employee requirements.

Quantum Source is developing a photonic quantum architecture for fault-tolerant, practical quantum computers that can scale to millions of qubits at a fraction of the complexity, footprint, power consumption, and cost of other implementations.  Designed around chip-based photon-atom gates, Quantum Source’s novel architecture allows for deterministic, one-step mutual exchange of quantum information between photonic and atomic qubits.  Providing versatile building blocks for scaling up quantum systems, Quantum Source is paving the path towards cost-effective, practical quantum computers that will disrupt industries such as medicine, security, climate simulations, financial algorithms and more.

Series Entertainment is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.

Entro is a revolutionary cyber security platform that provides protection for secrets and programmatic access to cloud services and data. They assist in accelerating business growth and success by building a safe cloud environment.

Zingly.ai is a next-generation AI and Digital-First CX Center platform that unifies customer interactions across all channels—voice, chat, email, and video—into persistent, always-on digital spaces. Zingly empowers businesses to deliver proactive, personalized engagement at scale, driving revenue growth, operational efficiency, and superior service. With tools like GenAI Agent for automating customer interactions and Agent Copilot for enhancing agent performance, Zingly helps organizations transform customer service from a cost center into a powerful revenue engine. Trusted by industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail, Zingly is reshaping CX with safe, AI-driven solutions that prioritize compliance and data security.

RunPod is a cloud platform designed for GPUs, enabling developers to deploy customized full-stack AI applications. RunPod is dedicated to ensuring that cloud computing remains accessible and affordable while maintaining its full range of features, usability, and user experience. Its mission is to empower individuals and enterprises with state-of-the-art technology, allowing them to harness the power of AI and cloud computing to their fullest potential.

LayerX is a provider of a browser security platform that turns any browser into a secure and manageable workspace by providing real-time monitoring and governance over users’ activities on the web, protecting the enterprise's applications, data, and devices from web-borne risks.

Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V system startup targeting integrated system solutions for enterprises.

SiMa.ai is a software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip company (MLSoC) that develops machine learning technology to deliver a software-centric platform. With push-button performance, they enable effortless ML deployment and scaling at the embedded edge by allowing customers to address any computer vision problem while achieving 10x better performance at the lowest power. The company's hardware-to-software stack flexibly adjusts to any framework, network, model, sensor, or modality all in one platform. Edge ML applications that run completely on the SiMa.ai MLSoC see an increase in performance and energy efficiency and bring higher fidelity intelligence to ML use cases spanning computer vision to generative AI.

G2 Reverse Logistics' cutting-edge software simplifies returns management for retailers, e-commerce brands, and 3PLs. Centralized control tower gives item-level visibility, and a multi-faceted approach combines data, automation, operations, and unparalleled industry experience to drive value throughout the entire return lifecycle. The former Genco team and founder Herb Shear, known as a pioneer in reverse logistics, created a unique solution to fill a gap in the market. G2 Reverse logistics provides an end to end solution designed to maximize ROI while improving customer experience and carbon footprint of the brand.

SiLC Technologies is a Silicon Photonics start up focusing on photonic Sensor and 3D imaging applications. It develops new and novel technologies and integrated solutions to address the growing needs of an autonomous and smart new world.

Observe and map your application’s running behavior with one command. Always up-to-date data. Get AppMap where you code. Observability insights delivered before you make a pull request and way before production. Find runtime performance, security, and stability problems while you code. Collaborate on a team member’s application behavior problem without having to replicate their environment. Share AppMaps with your team. Automate AppMap generation in CI, get alerts for performance and security flaws, and compare observability and alerts across branches and teams. Run AppMap in CI to automate observability, create OpenAPI docs, and much more.

floLIVE provides global, secure, cloud-native connectivity solutions to enterprises, mobile operators and cloud providers. Its platform comprises local core networks that provide local connectivity while being centrally managed and controlled over the cloud. This unique approach enables enterprises to benefit from high performance, secure and regulatory-compliant local connectivity with the flexibility and elasticity of a cloud-native platform. floLIVE offers a complete, cloud-based IoT eco-system that includes a core network with integrated device management, Inventory, and Billing services – all provided as-a-service and support a pay-as-you-grow business model.

Ibex Medical Analytics was conceived when its two founders were looking for ways to apply their skills to contribute to human well-being. They were captivated with the opportunity presented by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine and, in particular, the potential it holds for advancing cancer care. They decided to combine their accumulated knowledge of AI, data science, image analysis, and machine learning, and apply it to cancer diagnostics in digital pathology. Today, Ibex is a multidisciplinary team comprised of entrepreneurs, data scientists, software engineers and medical experts, working together to realize our vision: Applying AI to cancer diagnostics, striving to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.

The growth in IoT is explosive, impressive and unsustainable under current architectural approaches. Many IoT deployments face challenges related to latency, network bandwidth, reliability and security, which cannot be addressed in cloud-only models.

Endor Labs focuses on improving application security, particularly in managing open-source software dependencies. The company assists developers in adopting safe Open Source Software (OSS) to accelerate development while spending less time addressing security concerns. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform is intended to address the weakest link in software supply chain security: the enterprise's ungoverned sprawl of open-source software. The company's engineering team includes 7 PhDs and senior engineers from Meta, Uber, Amazon, and Microsoft. Endor Labs was founded by industry veterans Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, with funding from Lightspeed and Dell Technologies Capital and executives from Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Zoom, Google, and others.

Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers. The company's application delivery network uses a network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct their visitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.

Halcyon is a cybersecurity business that develops tools to protect enterprise clients from ransomware. It also offers layered ransomware protection that combines pre-execution detection, behavioral modeling, and deception techniques.

Secuvy is a data security and privacy company that offers an AI-driven platform for data governance, security, and compliance. Their key offerings include: Data discovery and classification: Using AI and machine learning to automatically find, categorize, and link sensitive data across structured and unstructured environments. Data security posture management (DSPM): Providing visibility and management of data security across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises systems. Compliance automation: Streamlining privacy operations by automating workflows for data protection impact assessments (DPIA) and privacy impact assessments (PIA)2. Risk assessment and remediation: Scheduling automated scans to detect misclassifications and security risks, with automated remediation capabilities. Secure collaboration: Enabling policy-based file encryption and integration with DRM platforms to prevent data leakage during external collaboration.

Descope enables any developer to create secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application. It intends to make customer identity a business enabler.

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.

Sightfull is an end-to-end analytics platform with a robust semantic modeling layer, enabling analysts to create complex metrics quickly and easily. It offers pre-built templates, a central store for consistent metrics, and seamless integration into existing data stacks or as a standalone solution. Business users benefit from self-service data insights, leveraging Google Sheets and Excel integrations and generative AI for querying metrics, making it ideal for operations, finance, and business analysts. Try Sightfull for free: https://www.sightfull.com/

Cymulate is a leading on-prem and cloud-based Security Validation and Exposure Management Platform leveraging the industry's most comprehensive and user-friendly Breach and Attack Simulation technology. We empower security teams to prioritize remediation by continuously testing and harden defenses against immediate threats from the attacker's point of view.  Cymulate deploys within an hour, integrating with a vast tech alliance of security controls, from EDR, to email gateways, web gateways, SIEM, WAF and more across hybrid, on-premise, cloud and Kubernetes environments. Customers see increased prevention, detection and improvement to overall security posture from optimizing their existing defense investments end-to-end across the MITRE ATT&CK® framework.  The platform provides out-of-the-box, expert, and threat intelligence-led risk assessments that are simple to deploy and use for all maturity levels, and are constantly updated. It also provides an open framework to create and automate red and purple teaming by generating penetration scenarios and advanced attack campaigns tailored to their unique environments and security policies.

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.

Immuta enables organizations to unlock value from their cloud data by protecting it and providing secure access. The Immuta Data Security Platform provides sensitive data discovery, security and access control, data activity monitoring, and has deep integrations with the leading cloud data platforms. Immuta is now trusted by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies around the world to secure their data. Founded in 2015, Immuta is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Simply acquiring security tools is not enough. The challenge is leveraging them optimally to meet expected outcomes. In today's complex threat landscape, managing security data is crucial for risk mitigation. Traditional methods result in fragmented insights, data silos, and inefficiency hindrances. At Dassana, we empower organizations by centralizing security data and providing a unified platform that delivers real-time, holistic insights into their security posture. By breaking down data silos, we enable comprehensive visibility into attack surfaces, facilitating efficient threat correlation, swift incident response, and proactive risk management.

Aidaptive’s predictive personalization platform gives online businesses the power to automatically predict the affinity and intent of prospective customers, then deliver personalized content to them in real time. Aidaptive’s mission is to empower any sized eCommerce or hospitality brand with the power of enterprise-grade machine learning. Aidaptive (Jarvis ML Inc) was founded in 2021 by Rakesh Yadav, who led the Machine Learning Operations platform development for Google Ads and Payments. Jarvis ML's team has more than 50+ years of combined machine learning experience and is funded by Dell Technologies Capital, SHAKTI and more than a dozen veteran Silicon Valley technologists and business leaders.

OpsMx secures and intelligently automates software delivery. OpsMx offers a comprehensive “security first” CD and Its Deployment Firewall adds  security to existing CI/CD. Customers include several Fortune 10 companies.

Skan.ai uses cognitive technologies to map, model, and manage business processes by creating digital twins of human/digital interactions. Skan.ai replaces human interviews and observation, which are not accurate, by cognitive tooling that learns based on observation of human/digital work. Skan does this at scale and learns / reconstructs business processes grounds up. This approach is significantly faster, more accurate, and has much greater depth and coverage.

Petabyte scale, high performance, 10x easier, 10x cheaper, open source observability platform for everyone.

BastionZero  is developing technology to allow traders to maintain custody of their coins while trading at a cryptocurrency exchange. Their technology ensures that no one, even a compromised or hacked exchange, has the power to take custody of a trader’s digital assets. Instead, traders can keep their coins securely housed in their wallet or custodial service, even as they trade.Their technology is compatible with top cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and ZCash.

SKAEL provides a hyper-automation platform used to help companies to automate and power digital employees. The company's platform is combined with automation and conversational AI technologies and it offers a plug-and-play integration into all the back-end workflow and approval systems, and automatically clears, stores, and benchmarks data across peers while layering out predictive and prescriptive insights. Through this, it helps users to eliminate buyer-seller human error, bias, delays, and associated risks while fully automating repetitive business functions. Founded in 2017, SKAEL is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Calamu, a cybersecurity startup offering next-gen resilience and near-impenetrable data protection for the enterprise.

Pecan helps business intelligence, operations, and revenue teams predict mission-critical outcomes. As the world’s only low-code predictive analytics and data science platform, Pecan enables companies to harness the full power of AI and predictive modeling without requiring any data scientists or data engineers on staff.  By simplifying data preparation, automating feature engineering, and creating models refined for high performance in specific use cases, Pecan transforms SQL-trained BI analysts into effective data scientists who can leverage massive amounts of raw data to build accurate predictions in days. With Pecan, companies turn hindsight into foresight by generating highly accurate predictions and recommendations that improve customer lifetime value, retention, conversion rates, demand forecasting, and other revenue-driving KPIs. Pecan’s predictions impact billions of dollars in revenue for fintech, insurance, retail, consumer packaged goods, mobile apps, and consumer services companies of all sizes.

MinIO is a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store. Optimized for cloud-native workloads, MinIO is completely compatible with S3, inside AWS or on other public and private clouds and Kubernetes distributions. Enterprises use MinIO to deliver against ML/AI, analytics, backup and archival workloads - all from a single platform. MinIO is open sourced under the GNU AGPL v3 license.

TagNTrac is an IoT platform that provides integrating multimode technologies typically hardware, software, and data to build solutions.

Exotec is the designer and manufacturer of the Goods to Person SKYPOD solution which enables order preparation in retail logistics in any sector of activity. The SKYPOD is a robotic order picking system but can also be used as a buffer solution for prepared orders and can be installed in cool or ambient environments. Upstream and downstream of SKYPOD, we customize according to the level of automation sought, according to the logistics characteristics and distribution channels of our customers. Our customers seek performance and flexibility in our solution: All our solutions are dimensioned as accurately as possible for the flow and stock required We can support the growth of the activity without interrupting production by simply adding robots, stations or racks

Cequence is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, California. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) Platform, unifying API discovery, compliance, and testing with real-time detection and native prevention to protect customers’ web, mobile, and API applications against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. The Cequence UAP solution provides a complete API security platform that allows customers to discover their APIs, ensure they are security compliant, and protect them from attacks in real time. Cequence Security customers include Fortune and Global 500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

Bodo.ai is an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics, scaling past 10,000 cores and petabytes of data with unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. Leveraging unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, Bodo is helping F500 customers solve some of the world’s most massive data analysis problems. And doing so in a fraction of traditional time, complexity, and cost, all while leveraging the simplicity and flexibility of native Python. Developers can deploy Bodo on any infrastructure, from a laptop to a public cloud. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh, PA, the team of passionate technologists aims to radically accelerate the world of data analytics.  http://bodo.ai  #LetsBodo

Swish.ai provides a hyper-automation platform that works with any existing ITSM tool to uncover and act on insights in real-time, accelerating ticket resolution time and reducing costs.

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, internet-scale apps. It is built using a unique combination of the high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner).  YugabyteDB serves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures, and global data distribution. As a cloud-native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease. YugabyteDB is fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Otonomo fuels a data ecosystem of OEMs, fleets, and more than 100 service providers. Our platform securely ingests more than 4 billion data points per day globally from over 40 million vehicles licensed on the platform, then reshapes and enriches it, to accelerate time to market for new services that improve the in-and-around the car experience. Privacy by design and neutrality are at the core of our platform, which enables GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy-regulation-compliant solutions using both personal and aggregate data. Use cases include emergency services, mapping, EV management, subscription-based services, parking, predictive maintenance, insurance, media, in-vehicle services, traffic management, and smart city solutions.

FullStory is a customer experience data app that captures customer experience data in one platform. Its tiny script unlocks pixel-perfect session playback, automatic insights, funnel analytics, and robust search and segmentation empowering everyone in an organization to help build an online experience for customers. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

lakeFS is an open source data version control for data lakes. It enables zero copy Dev / Test isolated environments, continuous quality validation, atomic rollback on bad data, reproducibility, and more. Managing a data lake without a data version control system is error prone and labor intensive. With lakeFS, your data lake is version controlled and you can easily time-travel between consistent snapshots of the lake. lakeFS was established in January, 2020 in CA, USA

NetSpring focuses on product and customer journey analytics. They offer tools to analyze product usage, user behavior, and customer experiences across various channels. The platform is designed for modern data environments, offering warehouse-native analytics without the need for data duplication. It helps businesses prioritize feature development, optimize customer acquisition, and reduce churn by analyzing user behavior and product interaction trends.

Augtera Networks is enabling networks to keep up with increasing scale, complexity, and change. For Enterprise and Service Provider networks, it eliminates noise, enables proactive operations, and prevents incidents. Augtera is an AI/ML-powered network operations platform used by hyper-scale cloud platforms, financial institutions, communications service providers, managed service providers, and enterprises across multiple industries. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

TheLoops is the first intelligent support operations platform to bring product context to support, optimizing the support experience. It contextualizes data from a variety of sources and provides insights to reps within the tools they are using. Its collaborative capability keeps learning from resolutions across organizations providing managers with real-time visibility into the state of their support operations. TheLoops transforms support organizations from a cost center to a growth driver.

Lightspin is a contextual cloud security platform that protects native, Kubernetes, and microservices from known and unknown risks. The company created a model to empower customers and allow the organization to scale as the need grows, It provides a self-service experience that corresponds to how SaaS security and engineering leaders want to discover and acquire in-class tools. Its transparent pricing eliminates the guessing game of the traditional software buying process.

VAST Data delivers the data platform at the heart of the AI-powered world, accelerating time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications. The VAST data platform delivers scalable performance, radically simple data management and enhanced productivity. Launched in 2019, VAST is the fastest-selling data infrastructure startup in history. For more information, please visit https://vastdata.com.

Striim is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for enterprise analytics and operations. Striim offers a self-managed or fully-managed (SaaS) platform that makes it easy to set up smart data pipelines to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data from enterprise databases such as Oracle (using non-intrusive change data capture), log files, messaging systems, and sensors, to virtually any target such as Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Snowflake with sub-second latency enabling real-time operations and analytics and unleashing innovation. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Tetrate partners with enterprises in their journey to app modernization. The company is an enterprise-ready service mesh for any workload in any environment. Tetrate's service mesh platform makes it easy for DevOps, security, and network administrators to manage the complexity of modern hybrid cloud application infrastructure.

Katana Graph develops technologies to help people and businesses unleash the immense potential of their large-scale irregular and unstructured data. The company's platform combines algorithms, hardware acceleration, and emerging storage technologies to provide a graph database, graph analytics, and graph mining workloads with multiple orders of magnitude performance improvements.

Vdoo primarily engages in the complex and increasingly critical product security space. With Vdoo, organizations can identify, prioritize, and mitigate a vast range of security issues. Its automated platform provides end-to-end product security to help development and security teams reduce time and effort while ensuring optimal product security.  The company was founded in 2017 by a team of seasoned cybersecurity entrepreneurs and product security experts. Vdoo is now a global company with offices in Israel, the US, Germany, Singapore, Japan, and dozens of Fortune 500 customers representing the most security-diligent companies from various industries.

Graphcore is a startup that develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications. It has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster.  The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Toka is a cyber capacity-building company that helps design, build, and manage a tailored ecosystem of cyber capabilities and software products for governmental, law enforcement, and security agencies.

Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world. It designs processing chipsets for data center servers, thereby delivering a faster, power-efficient, and secure experience to existing data center processors.

Xometry is a AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, transforming one of the largest industries in the world. Xometry uses its proprietary technology to create a marketplace that enables buyers to efficiently source on-demand manufactured parts and assemblies, and empowers sellers of manufacturing services to grow their businesses.

Redis is the world’s fastest in-memory database. We provide cloud and on-prem solutions for caching, vector search, and more that seamlessly fit into any tech stack. With fast setup and fast support, we make it simple for digital customers to build, scale, and deploy the fast apps our world runs on.

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