The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

Goldman Sachs

Norwest is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies. Since its inception, it has invested in more than 600 companies and partnered with over 140 active companies across our venture and growth equity portfolio. The firm invests in early to late-stage companies across a wide range of sectors with a focus on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. It offers a deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses.

Norwest Venture Partners

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

83North

Dell Technologies Capital is the investment arm for Dell Technologies.  We’ve invested in over 100 companies that push the envelope on digital technology for enterprises and consumers.  We are a team of world-class investors who help our companies succeed.  We focus on early-stage investments with passionate founders. Our companies gain unique access to the go-to-market capabilities of Dell Technologies. For more information visit www.delltechcapital.com

Dell Technologies Capital

The Syndicate Group was created to help startups scale faster by organizing exclusive investment access for their channel partners.

The Syndicate Group

Next47 is a $1.2 billion independent, global venture firm backed by Siemens AG. We specialize in enterprise-focused businesses, make fast decisions and share deep conviction with the teams we invest in. We have the resources and the motivation to unleash maximum potential in every startup we work with. We leverage our own global footprint as well as the Siemens ecosystem that spans a broad set of industries across hundreds of countries and regions worldwide.

Next47

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

Common Fund

Mellanox Capital is the venture capital arm of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. It specializes in investments in startups. The firm seeks to invest in technology companies developing hardware, software, and services in the enterprise and high-performance computing technologies including, data center, embedded, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and financial platforms; software and services including, disruptive technologies in support for the strategic objectives of Mellanox's Software and Service Group, databases, visual computing and open source; and physical layer, manufacturing and material technologies including, materials, packaging, electronic design, automation tools, disruptive memory technologies, and complementary chips to support Mellanox initiatives. It also seeks to invest in the enterprise data, Web 2.0, cloud infrastructure, enterprise application platforms.

Mellanox Capital

Greenfield Partners is a TPG Growth investment platform focused on tech-enabled businesses. Greenfield Partners brings to the Israeli market the unparalleled capabilities of one of the world’s leading alternative asset firms, while simultaneously offering true value-added partnership to entrepreneurs and management teams at the forefront of global technology innovation.

Greenfield Partners

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossover strategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Tiger Global Management

NVIDIA is a computing platform company, innovating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. The company specializes in the manufacture of graphics-processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices. The company is a major supplier of integrated circuits used for personal computer motherboard chipsets, graphics processing units (GPUs), and game consoles.

NVIDIA

Phoenix Financial is a dynamic Leader in Israeli insurance, asset management, and financial services. Managing $130 billion in assets, Phoenix continues to access Israel's vibrant and innovative economic activity by providing a robust portfolio of products and services for private and corporate clients. The company creates value for its clients and distribution partners through service excellence and constant innovation. Group subsidiaries include Phoenix Insurance, Phoenix Investment House, Phoenix Pension & Provident Funds, Phoenix Gama, and Phoenix Agencies.

Phoenix Financial

Fidelity is a privately owned investment management firm that serves a wide range of clients. It offers services including IRAs, rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage, retirement planning, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance. They serve individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. The firm manages equity, fixed-income, and balanced mutual funds and invests in public equity and fixed-income markets. It also conducts in-house research to inform its investment decisions.

Fidelity

New Enterprise Associates is a prominent venture capital firm focusing on investments in technology and healthcare startups. They help entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from the seed stage through the IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

New Enterprise Associates

Drive Capital invests in innovative technology, healthcare, and consumer companies in the Midwest. The firm is looking for innovative entrepreneurs addressing big market opportunities. Its goal is to partner with entrepreneurs that have audacious goals and strive to build large sustainable companies. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, financial services, and mobile sectors. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Drive Capital

Bond Capital is an award-winning institutional provider of structured business debt and equity to successful business owners and management teams wishing to capitalize on growth, acquisitions, or buyouts.  As a true entrepreneurial partner, Bond Capital identifies common goals and objectives, tailors a creative financial solution, and provides the necessary investment in real dollars. Since 2002, Bond Capital has provided funding and advice to later-stage companies with strong management teams and EBITDA between $2 million and $50 million, making direct investments between $2 million and $30 million. Bond Capital has also arranged syndicated transactions ranging up to $250 million.   Bond Capital was named by Preqin for best global performance by a mezzanine debt fund for 2015 and 2016.

Bond Capital

VAST Data

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.

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​​​​​​.

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Cisco

To simplify the design, deployment, and management of AI infrastructure for workloads such as GenAI, RAG-based inferencing, and AI fine-tuning, leveraging VAST Data's AI-ready data platform and Cisco's Nexus HyperFabric AI.

Providers of storage solutions that help accelerate data analytics. These include primary storage solutions, such as data warehouses and data lakes, and secondary storage solutions for non-mission-critical data.

SPEE3D

SPEE3D partners with New Jersey Innovation Institute to provide cold spray AM technology

Additive manufacturing makes objects by systematically adding material via a CAD program

Additive Manufacturing

Renishaw offers a range of 3D printers for metal printing using metal powder bed fusion (laser melting) technology. Its flagship printers, the Ren500 series, comprises RenAM 500 Flex, an open powder 3D system; RenAM 500 Q, a laser power bed cost effective system; and the RenAM 500 Ultra, which incorporates the patented TEMPUS technology (a scanning algorithm for 3D printers to maintain quality).

SourceDay

To develop a technology solution designed to simplify AI deployments for organizations, merging Vapor IO's Zero Gap AI and the VAST Data platform into an integrated Edge-to-core AI system.

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

Edge Computing

Companies that offer datacenter infrastructure to facilitate edge computing, including micro data centers deployable to more strategic locations.

Vast Data Inc. unveils a new AI cloud architecture in partnership with Nvidia Corp., using the company’s BlueField-3 data processing unit technology to host Vast’s operating system to turn supercomputers into AI data engines.

Solutions to unify data from disparate sources by extracting, transforming, loading, and storing data in a usable form (such as in data warehouses) for further analysis.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

To leverage VAST Data's scale-out software architecture for the new HPE GreenLake for File Storage, enabling enterprise customers to manage unstructured data with improved performance at scale and deliver superior time to data insight.

Nvidia and VAST Data, a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering partner up to build AI Superclusters, a next-gen storage platform called Ceres.

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.

Fivetran is a cloud-based automated data integration platform that enables businesses to move data from various sources, including SaaS applications, databases, and files, into data warehouses, data lakes, and other destinations. The company's platform offers multiple deployment models to meet diverse business needs, ranging from stringent security requirements to maintaining on-premises databases even after partial cloud migration.The company's data movement platform is designed to automate and streamline the process of extracting, loading, and transforming (ELT) data, empowering organizations to focus on data-driven insights and decision-making. With real-time analytics, database replication, AI workflows, and cloud migrations facilitated by Fivetran, thousands of customers worldwide can leverage the platform to drive business growth.Fivetran's core offering revolves around its connector library, which supports over 500 data sources, including SaaS applications, databases, ERPs, and files. These connectors enable automatic, reliable, and secure data movement, regardless of whether the data resides on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. The platform's scalable architecture allows businesses to seamlessly add or remove data sources as their needs evolve.To enhance the usability and accessibility of the ingested data, Fivetran employs a normalized schema approach. By delivering data in a normalized format, the platform enables customers to remix and reshape the data according to their specific requirements, facilitating efficient data analysis and reporting. Additionally, Fivetran offers pre-built data models and dbt Core integration, empowering customers to create analytics-ready tables tailored to their business use cases, such as analyzing deal opportunities from Salesforce, generating general ledger reports from QuickBooks data, or evaluating return on ad spend across advertising platforms.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30203">June 2024</a>, the company launched Managed Data Lake Service to simplify the process of managing data lakes for businesses of any size. Key benefits include the ability to centralize data for insights and convenience. Furthermore it reduces costs by discontinuing support for legacy data warehouses.Key customers and partnershipsOver the years, Fivetran has attracted a diverse range of customers across various industries, including ecommerce, finance, technology, and media. Notable clients include Autodesk, Conagra Brands, JetBlue, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley, and Ziff Davis, among others. These companies leverage Fivetran's platform to streamline their data integration workflows, optimize their analytics capabilities, and gain a competitive edge through data-driven decision-making.To further enhance its offerings and enable seamless integrations, Fivetran has established strategic partnerships with various technology providers, including data warehousing solutions, cloud platforms, and business intelligence tools. For instance, Fivetran collaborates with Databricks, enabling customers to build an open lakehouse with Delta Lake powered by the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Additionally, Fivetran's integration with Unity Catalog provides out-of-the-box governance and security for Fivetran-generated tables.

Fivetran

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 Domo is a cloud-based analytics platform that enables businesses to connect, transform, and visualize data from various sources. It provides a comprehensive solution for data management, analysis, and visualization, empowering organizations to make data-driven decisions. Domo's platform is designed to foster collaboration, efficient decision-making, and improved business outcomes through its user-friendly interface and powerful data manipulation capabilities.
 
 
 Domo's key offerings include data integration, data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), and intelligent applications. The platform leverages its Adrenaline engine and offers over 1,000 pre-built connectors to extract data from cloud applications, databases, spreadsheets, and other sources. This data is then stored in Domo's internal data warehouse or accessed through federated queries, enabling users to analyze and visualize it using Domo's extensive collection of visualization tools and dashboards.
 
 
 Domo&rsquo;s user experience is designed to be intuitive and accessible, fostering high adoption rates across organizations. Its user-friendly interface, seamless collaboration features, and mobile-first approach contribute to its widespread adoption and ease of use. Domo's platform is built for speed and scalability, allowing organizations to quickly access and analyze even large datasets without experiencing performance issues.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Domo serves over 2,300 customers across various industries, including major enterprises such as eBay, Walmart, Cisco, Citibank, HP, The National Geographic Society, Verizon, US Army, Vanguard, Microsoft, IBM, Thomson Reuters, Airbus, Orange, AT&amp;T, Caterpillar, Volvo Cars, and Comcast.
 
 
 The platform has been widely adopted by organizations seeking to leverage data for better decision-making, improved customer insights, and enhanced marketing analytics. Domo has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Regional One Health and Torchy's Tacos, enabling them to leverage Domo's capabilities for healthcare metrics and finance applications, respectively.
 
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Founded in 2014, Confluent, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company specializes in data streaming platforms, primarily based on Apache Kafka, an open-source project created by Confluent's founders while working at LinkedIn. Confluent offers two main products: Confluent Platform, an on-premise solution, and Confluent Cloud, a fully managed SaaS. These products help organizations harness real-time data streams for various applications, including microservices, Internet of Things (IoT), financial services, fraud detection, and customer analytics.Confluent's primary offering in data infrastructure services is its integration solution, which enables organizations to unify data from disparate sources. The Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud act as clients' central nervous systems, allowing them to connect various IT systems and applications to capture and process real-time data streams. This capability enables businesses to make decisions based on continuously flowing data.In September 2024,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33818">Confluent announced upgrades to its Confluent Cloud</a> product, enhancing support for Apache Flink. The updates include support for the Table API, simplifying development for Java and Python users, and private networking support to improve data security. These upgrades aimed to simplify Flink deployments, enhance security, and make it easier for organizations in regulated industries to stream data and integrate it into applications.Key customers and partnershipIn December 2023, Confluent expanded partnerships with MongoDB, Pinecone, Rockset, Weaviate, and Zilliz as part of its "Data Streaming for AI" initiative. These partnerships aimed to provide real-time contextual data from Confluent's platform to partners' vector databases, facilitating the development of AI-powered applications.

Confluent

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 dbt Labs provides an open source data transformation tool that uses analytics engineering. It is aimed at programmers with knowledge of SQL to develop models with SELECT statements, test and document each model, and install safely with Git-enabled version control. The software enables the user to develop faster, work from the same assumptions, deploy with confidence, and&nbsp; ensure low risk with governance and safety. The company also offers dbt Core, which is an open source software for analytics engineers, and dbt Cloud Enterprise for secure, reliable access to data. JetBlue and Domain are some of its clients.
 
 
 
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 Starburst uses the open source Trino to give its customers a modern solution in the form of one of the fastest analytics search engines, with reliable security, around the clock support and connectors. The platform offers Starburst Enterprise, an option that allows users to deploy, connect, and manage data anywhere, and Starburst Galaxy, which provides a superior MPP SQL engine on an easy to use platform. Some of Starburst&rsquo;s customers are EMIS, Zalando, Finra and Priceline. The company also works with consultancy partners, cloud partners, technology partners, and managed service provider partners.
 
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Tools to monitor data for quality issues in real-time, as it moves throughout the data pipeline.

Solutions that enable businesses to carry out data processing and create ML models on the underlying data for predictive analysis.

Tools for enterprises to visualize data in a graphical form and obtain insights on the same using AI and natural language processing.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for data infrastructure & analytics.

Leverages GenAI to help organizations extract insights and supports GenAI application development through data preparation

Offers data analytics and storage platforms for business under a B2B SaaS model

These are tools that help prepare data for AI/ML applications

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 AI data platform company, VAST Data, is expanding its partnership with enterprise networking and security provider, Cisco, in an effort to simplify AI deployments for enterprises. The expansion will see the implementation of VAST Data Platform on select Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers.
 The integrated solution, a successor to the pair's initial collaboration in June 2024, will be offered through Cisco's global sales team and channel partners. It offers a complete enterprise AI solution by combining the AI-ready data platform from VAST with Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI.
 The partnership aims to simplify the processes involved in the design, deployment, and management of AI infrastructure. This will be especially useful for handling workloads from GenAI, RAG-based inferencing, and AI fine-tuning. Cisco plans to make the integrated solution available to its customers and partners in the first half of 2025.
 
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