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

Digital Privacy Tools

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 BigID provides a platform that leverages advanced machine learning tools to help enterprises protect their data and comply with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. on a large scale. The company launched its patented Discovery-in-Depth technology during January 2020 to automatically discover different types and sources of data across an enterprise&rsquo;s entire IT infrastructure. It expanded this technology in August 2020 by launching Hyperscan, a machine-learning-based scanning solution for large volumes of data that minimizes scanning time by 95%. The company also provides 
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 native data deletion features
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 that allow organizations to delete personal and sensitive data across their data stores effectively. The feature allows organizations to purge duplicate and redundant data, minimize data before a cloud migration, initiate data deletion workflows based on data retention policies, and automatically address policy violations. &nbsp;In March 2023, BigID 
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 released a native data privacy suite
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 that allows enterprises to automate California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) compliance requirements across data inventory and mapping, privacy impact assessment, self-service privacy rights portal, automated DSAR fulfilment, and regulatory reporting by leveraging holistic privacy management
 
 
 Additionally, it provides solutions concerning data subject rights management, consent management, privacy data protection impact assessments, third-party risk management, incident response, reporting, and monitoring.
 
 
 In April 2023, 
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 BigID launched &ldquo;BigAI&rdquo;
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 , a large language model (LLM) designed to scan and classify data, leveraging machine learning and generative AI to organize data into tables, columns, and categories. The BigAI platform also includes a generative AI chatbot named &ldquo;BigChat&rdquo;, which provides data compliance advice through conversational Q&amp;A.
 
 
 The company had 235 employees as of December 2020 and has offices in the UK and Israel.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In April 2023, BigID announced a technology partnership with French tech company Thales to integrate its data discovery and classification capabilities with Thales&rsquo; CipherTrust encryption platform to identify and anonymize sensitive data for business use while maintaining individual privacy. In the same month, BigID collaborated with SPHERE to develop an identity hygiene risk management solution. In June 2023 the company announced an integration with Databricks to automate data discovery, classification, and governance.
 
 
 BigID also has partnerships with companies such as TrustArc and IBM, among others, to deliver comprehensive compliance solutions.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In December 2020, the company raised USD 70 million in a Series D funding round co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global, at a valuation of over USD 1 billion. The funding round was extended in April 2021 with a USD 30 million investment from the private equity firm Advent International. The extension valued BigID at USD 1.25 billion and the funding was utilized towards product development and hiring.
 
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 Immuta 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&rsquo;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 partnerships
 
 
 Immuta has a long standing partnership with Databricks, a data infrastructure firm, and provides data security and access controls to users of Databricks Unity Catalog governance platform.
 
 
 During 2020, Immuta saw its global bookings grow by 115% year-over-year, with new clients from the financial services, health care, insurance, and consumer technology industries, including Aon, Credit Suisse, and Daimler.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Immuta reported that its employee headcount doubled during 2020.
 
 
 In June 2022, Immuta
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 raised USD 100 million
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 in a Series E funding round led by NightDragon, bringing the total funding raised to USD 267 million. The company expected to use the funding for product development, to expand its sales, marketing, and customer success teams, double its employee headcount of 250 within 2023, and pursue acquisitions to bolster its product offering.
 
 
 In May 2023, the company
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 announced a strategic investment
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 of undisclosed value from Databricks to strengthen integration between the two platforms.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Platforms to make the most of cloud infrastructure

Cloud Optimization Tools

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 Harness is a cloud-based end-to-end software delivery platform that provides cloud cost management (CCM), among other modules.
 
 
 
 
 Harness CCM offers a holistic set of features to facilitate cost optimization of the development pipeline. It provides a single customizable dashboard to unify data and insights across multiple departments and cloud vendors. Further, it delivers automated anomaly detection and resource allocation to optimize continuous delivery (CD) workflows and allows for seamless integration with existing monitoring tools for an overview of cloud spend.
 
 
 
 
 Harness operates a consumption-based sales model with pricing based on the annual cloud spend.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 Harness CCM&rsquo;s clientele ranges from individuals to large-scale enterprises across various industries, including healthcare, IT, finance, service, and SaaS. Notable customers include Synopsys, Relativity, Discover Dollar, and Carvana.
 
 
 
 
 Harness collaborates with many industry leaders to ensure wide service provision and integrations with various tools and platforms. Some of its key technology partners are HashiCorp, Benchmark, and Insight.
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 
 
 In its latest funding round in April 2022, the company raised USD 230 million in a mixed funding round with USD 175 million in Series D and USD 55 million in debt financing at a valuation of USD 3.7 billion. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from JP Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Gainangels, and others. The funding was earmarked for the expansion of the team and its software platform.
 
 
 
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 Immuta provides an automated platform that can be integrated with existing enterprise applications for data governance and security.
 
 
 
 
 Immuta&rsquo;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.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 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 partnerships
 
 
 
 
 Immuta is used by companies in the finance, healthcare, public, technology, media, and manufacturing sectors. Some notable customers are Mercedes Benz Group, Sony, S&amp;P Global, US Customs and Border Protection, ModMed, and Ginkgo Bioworks.
 
 
 
 
 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.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 
 
 As of September 2023, Immuta&rsquo;s most recent funding round was in June 2022, when it raised USD 100 million in Series E funding led by NightDragon, with participation from other investors. The company intended to use the funding for product development, expanding its sales, marketing, and customer success teams, doubling its employee headcount, and pursuing acquisitions to bolster its product offering.
 
 
 
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Tools that streamline software development

DevOps Toolchain

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 Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.
 
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 Harness is a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness automates verifications, prioritizes what tests to run, determine the impact of changes, automate cloud costs, and much more. The platform is designed to help companies accelerate their cloud initiatives as well as their adoption of containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Amazon ECS. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
 
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Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

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 MuleSoft is an API and integration platform provider.
 
 
 MuleSoft&rsquo;s primary product is the Anypoint platform, an API and integration platform that allows users to build APIs, deploy in any environment and architecture, automate security, and manage and monitor APIs. It provides pre-built APIs and other integration assets. The platform&rsquo;s API management features include API Governance, API Manager, Monitoring, and Flex Gateway. Its integration features include API Designer, Anypoint Studio, Anypoint Connectors, Anypoint Exchange, Anypoint DataGraph, Anypoint Partner Manager, Anypoint MQ, and Anypoint Code Builder. Among MuleSoft&rsquo;s other products are MuleSoft Composer, which connects applications and data instantly, and MuleSoft RPA, which automates tasks with bots.
 
 
 In 
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 October 2023
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 , Mulesoft announced the general availability of Anypoint Code Builder, an integrated development environment that allows developers to build APIs and integrations using modern tools.
 
 
 MuleSoft follows a direct sales model.
 
 
 In August 2021, MuleSoft acquired Servicetrace, a robotics solutions provider, which was absorbed into the company.&nbsp;
 
 
 In 2018, MuleSoft was acquired by Salesforce, a cloud-based software company. The company continues to operate under its brand.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 MuleSoft&rsquo;s customers operate in industries and sectors such as consumer goods, education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, and technology. Among Mulesoft&rsquo;s customers are ASICS, Unilever, Cisco Meraki, AT&amp;T, Watchbox, Splunk, Hologic, Siemens, New Relic, Wells Fargo, and Cox Automotive.
 
 
 MuleSoft&rsquo;s partners include Accenture, AWS, Bluesoft, Coupa, Datacom, Fujitsu, HCL, IBM, Infosys, Ipswitch, KPMG, MTX, Nexus, Oracle, PayPal, SAP, Tech Mahindra, Virtusa, and Zennify.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 MuleSoft&rsquo;s latest funding round was in March 2016 from a secondary market round.
 
 
 
 
 
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 Harness is a software delivery platform that provides tools to build, test, deploy, and maintain software and applications. It claims to be the first software delivery platform to use AI to simplify DevOps processes.
 
 
 Harness offers a holistic DevOps platform that simplifies and accelerates the software delivery process. It includes features like continuous verification, feature flags, smart variables, and advanced analytics and supports multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Harness stands out with its machine learning-driven verification, ensuring reliable and high-quality software releases for organizations of all sizes.
 
 
 Harness offers its products as a subscription-based service.&nbsp;
 
 
 In 2023, Harness acquired OverOps, a software analytics company, and Propelo, a provider of real-time engineering metrics. In 2022, Harness acquired ChaosNative, a solutions provider for engineering and cloud-native reliability. The company continues to operate separately. Harness also acquired open-source continuous integration company Drone.io in 2020. Drone.io still operates independently.&nbsp;
 
 
 In 
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 January 2024
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 , Harness acquired the assets of Armory, a continuous delivery platform company, for USD 7 million. Harness plans to integrate some of Armory&rsquo;s technology into its products.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Harness has hundreds of customers in industries such as IT, finance, health, service, and SaaS. Customers include Siemens, Kroger, Vodafone, LexisNexis, PicPay, Shipt, Synopsys, Rakuten Card, Ulta Beauty, SquareSpace, Ancestry, The Warehouse Group, and Genentech.
 
 
 Harness&rsquo; partners include Google Cloud, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Insight, Jems, HashiCorp, Ahead, Altoros, Benchmark, Digital Architects Zurich, Grid Dynamics, and Lucernys.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Harness&rsquo; latest funding was in April 2022 from a USD 175 million Series D round led by Norwest Venture Partners and a USD 55 million Debt Financing round. The funds were for continuing to enhance its platform and expanding the team.
 
 
 
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Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

15Five provides cloud-based performance management software for businesses to evaluate employee performance and engagement. Key products offered include 1) Performance (performance reviews, ratings and feedback, compensation management and benchmarking, HRIS and productivity integrations), 2) Engage (employee surveys and in-house coaching), 3) Transform (on-demand training for managers) and 4) Dashboard (analytics on engagement, performance and turnover).More recently, the company launched its HR Outcomes Dashboard (June 2023) allowing users to capture and synthesize an organization’s talent data providing insights on improving employee performance and engagement, and reducing regrettable turnover. This was followed by the launch of Spark AI (November 2023), an AI-powered assistant allowing for summarization of team engagement levels, tips on conducting effective one-on-one meetings, and guidance on creating unbiased performance reviews.The platform’s monthly subscription plans range from USD 4-16 per user. Its customer profile is said to be dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/1317">April 2021</a>, it announced the acquisition of employee engagement software provider Emplify for USD 50 million. Emplify provides tools for employee assessments, guidance for executives, and coaching for managers. Additionally, managers can gather employee feedback and people insights by using the tool. The platform’s clients include Figma, DiDi, Yamaha, and SalesLoft. The company claimed that as a result of the acquisition, it is the only platform to support a complete solution encompassing manager enablement, engagement measurement, and performance management. 15Five absorbed the Emplify team, growing its employee base by 30% and with the acquisition.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the platform had a customer base of over 3,500 with notable enterprises including HubSpot, Credit Karma and Pendo.Funding and financialsIn December 2022, 15Five received a strategic investment (amount undisclosed) from ServiceNow Ventures, as an addition to the USD 52 million Series C round announced in July 2022. The fresh funds were primarily used to accelerate 15Five’s ongoing product development.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 Snyk provides a platform for enterprises to secure their cloud-native and container applications which includes tools for developers that allow them to find vulnerabilities in their open-source and application codes used to develop cloud-native applications.
 
 
 Snyk intends to break even by 2024 and go public in the future.
 
 
 In June 2023, the firm 
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 acquired cloud application observability platform Enso
 </a>
 for an undisclosed sum. Snyk planned to integrate Enso into its developer security platform, giving developers full visibility of their applications throughout the development lifecycle.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 As of January 2023, Synk served more than 2,500 customers globally. Notable customers include Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In January 2023, the company 
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 secured an undisclosed amount
 </a>
 from ServiceNow. The funds were utilized to enhance its developer security platform.
 
 
 In 2022, Snyk achieved a 100% YoY increase in revenue and an over 130% increase in net revenue retention. It also reported that it tripled in size and its employee headcount rose from 400 to 1,200.
 
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Data Infrastructure & Analytics

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 ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform designed to help users explore, analyze, and share real-time business analytics data and allows businesses to create, consume, and operationalize data-driven insights through its consumer-grade search and AI technology. The platform offers self-service analytics designed to be accessible to a broad user base, including ThoughtSpot Everywhere, a developer-friendly, cloud-integrated environment for data app building.
 
 
 The company says its technology enables users to create new insights on-demand, analyze large volumes of data for anomalies and trends, and generate actionable insights from cloud data. Key features include integration with cloud data platforms for live querying, scaling according to business demand, and industry-leading cloud security and governance controls.
 
 
 ThoughtSpot acquired business intelligence startup Mode Analytics for USD 200 million in June 2023. Through the acquisition, Mode became a fully owned subsidiary of ThoughtSpot, combining the two companies&rsquo; capabilities in GenAI app development with an expected annual recurring revenue (ARR) of USD 150 million and doubling ThoughtSpot&rsquo;s customer base.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 ThoughtSpot serves various industry leaders who build their businesses on data across multiple sectors and industries. As of November 2023, notable customers included Chick-fil-A, T-Mobile Netherlands, Factory14, Snowflake, HP, and Accern.
 
 
 In terms of partnerships, ThoughtSpot collaborated in March 2023 with Google Cloud to bring its solution to Google Cloud Marketplace and Looker to integrate its platform with Looker&rsquo;s semantic modeling tool. Another partnership was announced with dbt Labs in December 2022, which was aimed at launching self-service analytics for analytics engineers. As of November 2023, other partners included Accenture, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Snowflake.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 ThoughtSpot&rsquo;s raised funding in a Series F round in November 2021 led by March Capital, in which it raised USD 100 million at a valuation of USD 4.2 billion, more than doubling the company's previous valuation. The fresh funds were funneled into growing ThoughtSpot&rsquo;s business.
 
 
 Financially, the company disclosed 100% growth in ARR in September 2023 and 108% YoY revenue growth in FY2020.
 
 
 
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Creating affordable content for the digital age

Content Creation Tools

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 ThreeKit is a 3D product visualization platform that enables brands to create and manage visuals at scale. The firm's solutions include a 3D configurator, a virtual photographer, and Augmented Reality. The firm's solutions are specialized for industries including furniture & home goods, apparel, and fitness equipment as well as for eCommerce platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, and Woocommerce. 
 
 
 The firm claims that its solutions result in a 50% sales uplift. As of April 2022, Threekits customers include Herman Miller, Crate & Barrell, Sapphire, and Roam. 
 
 
 Funding and Financials
 
 In November 2021, the firm raised USD 35 million in Series B funding to grow its product offerings. Subsequent to this, in January 2022, the firm expanded its platform offerings to allow brands to create customized non-fungible tokens (NFTs) allowing them to gain entry into the Metaverse. The firm also reported a 3X ARR growth in 2021. 
 
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Automation to improve business efficiency

Workflow Automation Platforms

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 Workato offers a cloud-based platform that enables citizen and professional developers to integrate a range of data and apps and create end-to-end automations across several business functions, including finance, HR, sales, IT, and marketing. The platform suite of solutions includes robotic process automation (RPA), integration platform-as-a-service, business process automation, and chatbots. Users can publish APIs, build data integrations, and create customized apps and bots from scratch via the platform's low-code interface or use over 500,000 community-built automation templates (called &ldquo;recipes&rdquo;).
 
 
 Moreover, the platform enables users to build tailored solutions for each business function, including automations for 1) accounting teams: Wuote-to-cash, accounts payable, and reporting, 2) sales and marketing teams: Campaign operations and lead management, 3) HR teams: Talent acquisition, onboarding, and collaboration, and 4) IT teams: Incident management and end-user support.&nbsp;
 
 
 The platform also provides software infrastructure, named &ldquo;Common Workato Runtime&rdquo; (CWR), which handles capacity planning, load balancing, fault-tolerance, and run-time optimization. In September 2023, the company launched &ldquo;Workflow Apps,&rdquo; a no-code tool that enables users to build end-to-end workflow automation applications.&nbsp;
 
 
 In November 2021, the company acquired RailsData, an Indian integration platform, for an undisclosed amount. Workato leveraged the company&rsquo;s technology to power its own automation solutions and enable large customers to deploy services via application programming interfaces (APIs).
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;
 
 
 As of November 2023, served over 17,000 businesses across a number of industries, including financial services, retail, logistics, and healthcare. Its clientele includes large enterprise clients, such as Atlassian, AT&amp;T, Adobe, Autodesk, Box, Stitch Fix, GitLab, NYU, Nokia, and Broadcom.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company also offers integrations with over 1,000 third-party applications and databases (as of December 2023), including Salesforce, Slack, Marketo, NetSuite, ServiceNow, and Workday.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company also partners with a number of systems integrators and technology service providers such as Trianz, Cognizant, Deloitte, and Cloud9 Consulting.&nbsp;
 
 
 In June 2023, the company partnered with OpenAI, to integrate the company&rsquo;s large language model (LLM) technology with its automation platform, and develop a new GenAI-driven solution. Named AI@Work, the solution will feature a number of tools including: 1) Workato Copilot, which enables users to convert natural language prompts into powerful Workato recipes, 2) Workato AI Connect, which enables users to create personalized content, and 3) WorkbotGPT, which enables users to interact with enterprise applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams in a conversational manner.
 
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City Innovate provides solutions to help modernize government through technology. Accelerating procurement, contracts, and grants inside state, federal, and large local governments.

Tenon sincere goal is to advance marketing throughout the company by equipping it with the resources it needs to work together with other departments to increase visibility, support, and the ability to carry out and demonstrate the worth of its offerings.

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.

Nobl9, the software reliability platform startup, is in the noble pursuit of reliable software. Founded by Marcin Kurc and Brian Singer, who joined Google via acquisition of Orbitera, Nobl9 helps software developers, DevOps practitioners, and reliability engineers deliver reliable features faster through software-defined Service Level Objectives that link monitoring and other logging and tracing data to user happiness and business KPIs. The company is backed by Battery Ventures, CRV, Bonfire and Resolute Ventures and is headquartered in Boston with a distributed team. More at nobl9.com.

Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.

Proven Optics develops and offers financial management toolsets, Saas platform-based software, and IT consulting services to organizations.

15Five is the strategic performance management platform that drives action and impact, helping businesses and their people thrive. HR leaders are empowered with data-driven insights and guided recommendations, while people managers are transformed into changemakers, all within the flow of work, accelerating employee engagement, performance, and retention. 15Five combines the power of generative AI, custom analytics and human-centered principles in a complete platform including 360° performance reviews, actionable engagement surveys, robust goal & OKR tracking, customizable manager coaching and training, and ongoing manager-employee feedback tools like guided 1-on-1s and check-ins.  HR leaders, managers, and employees at over 3,500 companies rely on 15Five daily, including Credit Karma, HubSpot and Pendo. Learn more at www.15Five.com.

Noodle.ai offers pioneering business solutions in Enterprise Artificial Intelligence, a unique collaboration among business executives, process experts, and artificial intelligence technologies (e.g., machine learning, predictive data analytics, data science).  The company creates and implements these solutions to solve complex business challenges and drive dramatic improvements in customer, product, and enterprise operations.

Fairmarkit is the only tail spend management solution that automates the sourcing process to help procurement teams be more efficient and save money. By equipping procurement and supply-chain teams with automation and data, Fairmarkit promotes competitive bidding while reducing manual work within existing processes. Leveraged across a number of industries by innovative procurement departments, such as Snowflake, BT, Cabot Corporation, and Refinitiv, Fairmarkit aims to revolutionize the way organizations make purchases.

Loris is the one-click intelligence layer for fast-growing digital companies that integrates with leading customer service platforms - such as Zendesk, Salesforce, and LivePerson - to assist customer support agents in real-time for better conversation outcomes and generates voice of customer insights.   Loris is headquartered in New York City and also has an office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Harness is a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness automates verifications, prioritizes what tests to run, determine the impact of changes, automate cloud costs, and much more. The platform is designed to help companies accelerate their cloud initiatives as well as their adoption of containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Amazon ECS. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Edge Delta believes there is a better way to do observability. A more efficient, simple, and faster way that no longer requires tough decisions regarding which datasets are valuable enough to monitor.   With Edge Delta, DevOps, Developer and SRE teams can control costs and maximize visibility, end overages, remove blind spots in data, and stay ahead of data growth. Edge Delta was founded in 2018 by Ozan Unlu and Fatih Yildiz and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy and protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores. BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy. BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.

Every year, Genesys orchestrates more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences for organizations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organizations can realize Experience as a Service SM our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organizations have the power to deliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalized experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty.

One of the higher ranking historically black colleges (HBCU), Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina is a place where African-American students can find camaraderie and success.  A relatively small and cohesive school, Benedict College houses most of its students on campus.  Students at Benedict may choose from more than 25 majors, which offer degrees in business, the humanities, education and the sciences, among others.  Most impressive among these is the degree program in Physics, which has been ranked highly among African American colleges.  That is not the only area in which Benedict gets a high ranking: for three years, the Benedict College Debate Team won 1st place at conferences of African American colleges.  Benedict College’s student services also provide every type of support to insure student success. Whether a student needs a note-taker, peer tutoring or is interested in an internship or vocational rehabilitation, student services offers it.  Financial aid is another way in which Benedict College supports student success, enabling those with limited finances to attend by supplying grants, scholarships, loans and work-study plans to those who qualify.

ThreeKit is a 3D product configuration and visualization platform that enables brands to create and manage beautiful visuals at scale. The platform combines innovation, expertise, and experience to deliver high-quality solutions that boost online customer engagement and conversions. It also enables businesses of any size to scale and automate beautiful product visuals across channels, both online and offline. ThreeKit allows companies to cost-effectively and easily create thousands of photorealistic, interactive 3D, and augmented reality visuals. The platform users can use the ThreeKit to create a 3D configurator, allowing consumers to make customizations in real-time. Threekit launched its flagship product, Virtual Photographer, a program that creates product images for e-commerce that look real but are completely computer-rendered. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

SafeBreach is a pioneer in the emerging category of breach and attack simulation. The company's groundbreaking platform provides a “hacker's view” of an enterprise’s security posture to proactively predict attacks, validate security controls and improve SOC analyst response. SafeBreach automatically executes breach methods with an extensive and growing Hacker’s Playbook of research and real-world investigative data. SafeBreach is funded by Sequoia Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and investor Shlomo Kramer.

CareAR is an augmented reality support platform enabling service management teams to provide real-time access to expertise for their customers, employees, and field workers.

Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact.  Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

MariaDB is a cloud database company whose products are used by companies big and small, reaching more than a billion users through Linux distributions and have been downloaded over one billion times. Deployed in minutes and maintained with ease, leveraging cloud automation, our database products are engineered to support any workload, any cloud, and any scale – all while saving up to 90% of proprietary database costs. Trusted by organizations such as Bandwidth, DigiCert, InfoArmor, Oppenheimer, Samsung, SelectQuote, and SpendHQ, MariaDB’s software is the backbone of critical services that people rely on every day.

Vndly provides a cloud-native vendor management technology platform for companies to manage the entire non-employee engagement lifecycle from talent acquisition to training to payment and offboarding. The platform is composed of four modules: contingent workforce management, statement of work (SOW) management, independent contractor (IC) compliance, and total talent acquisition.

Skymind created Deeplearning4j, the open-source deep-learning framework for the JVM.

Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allows simulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.

Workato is an intelligent automation platform designed to automate work in businesses. It enables business and IT to integrate their apps and automate complex business workflows with security and governance. It helps businesses create powerful, business-critical integrations between cloud apps in minutes.  Founded in 2013, Workato is trusted by top brands as well as its growing innovators. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Nuvolo is an EAM platform that delivers a simple, intuitive, and user-friendly online and offline mobile experience. It is revolutionizing enterprise asset management by innovating on ServiceNow, an enterprise cloud platform. The company’s vision is to be the global leader in cloud-based EAM, powered by a culture of innovation and a relentless commitment to customer service. Fully optimized for growing, mobile workforces worldwide, Nuvolo delivers a simple, intuitive, and user-friendly online and offline mobile experience.  It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey with offices throughout the U.S. and internationally in London and Pune, India.

BuildOnMe is a product company that harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence to supercharge cloud applications built on the ServiceNow platform. BuildOnMe is a certified ServiceNow Technology and Services Partner.  BuildOnMe products include:   BuildOn Claims, a full life-cycle claims processing product built on the ServiceNow platform that is infused with artificial intelligence powered by IBM Watson.  BuildOn Bot (Bob), a natural language chatbot built into ServiceNow's IT and HR Service Portals to enable Tier 0 resolution of IT and HR cases. The artificial intelligence behind Bob is powered by IBM Watson.  Alec, an artificial intelligence powered solution for handling unstructured data in cases submitted to IT and HR service centers. Alec uses IBM Watson for natural language processing of cases for auto-categorization, language translation, and tone analysis for auto-assignment of urgency and priority.

Founded in 2009, MapAnything is a location services company for your Salesforce data. Its mission is to become the world’s leading business platform for “Where” software.    MapAnything provides a suite of “Where” apps and platform services to drive productivity and planning across multiple use cases.   With more than 1,400 customers globally, ranging in all sizes and industries from small businesses to international enterprises, MapAnything is a Gold Salesforce App Innovation Partner.     It is the recipient of Ventana Research’s 2016 Technology Innovation Award for Location Analytics and has been named a Customer’s Choice – Highly Reviewed App by users of Salesforce.

MobiChord is a revolutionary, subscription-based software provider of Technology Expense Management solutions on the ServiceNow Platform. MobiChord extends the ServiceNow Platform to manage Mobile, Voice & Data, and Cloud assets, expenses, and services helping customers to preserve and generate budget, become more productive, and get full visibility into their technology management programs. MobiChord has earned a spot on the Inc. 5,000 fastest-growing companies for the last two years and was the highest-recognized technology expense management company. MobiChord gratefully serves enterprise customers and managed service providers globally.

MuleSoft makes it easy to connect the world’s applications, data, and devices. They provide a software platform that enables organizations to easily build application networks using APIs. APIs are the digital glue that allows applications to talk to each other and exchange data. Their flexible, unified platform connects nearly any application or system by leveraging APIs to quickly and securely share data, regardless of format or source, in application networks. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California,.

Trusted by leading brands, including 12 Fortune 500 enterprises, Numerify's System of Intelligence helps IT organizations plan, build, and run the systems that power more than $500B of commerce and achieve measurable ROI by becoming more efficient and agile while reducing risk and disruptions.

ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence and big data analytics platform that helps explore, analyze, and share real-time business analytics data easily. ThoughtSpot’s AI-Driven analytics platform puts the power of a thousand analysts in every business person's hands. With ThoughtSpot, clients can use search to easily analyze their data or automatically get trusted insights pushed to them with a single click. ThoughtSpot connects with any on-premise, cloud, big data, or desktop data source and deploys 85 percent faster than legacy technologies. Business Intelligence and Analytics teams have used ThoughtSpot to cut reporting backlogs by more than 90 percent and make more than 3 million decisions - and counting. ThoughtSpot’s customers include Amway, Bed Bath and Beyond, BT, Capital One, Celebrity Cruises, Chevron Federal Credit Union, De Beers, Insurethebox, and Scotiabank. The company was co-founded in 2012 by its CEO Ajeet Singh and six other technical co-founders from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle. It is based in Palo Alto, CA, and is currently expanding operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. ThoughtSpot’s mission is to enable analytics at a ''human scale'' and put search-driven analytics in the hands of 20M users by 2020.

ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and other countries. The company offers service management solutions, including incident, problem, change, request, and cost management as well as service catalogs; and IT, HR, facilities, and field service management solutions. It also provides IT operations management solutions covering service mapping, delivery, and assurance solutions; business management solutions such as financial management, project portfolio suite, vendor performance management, and performance analytics as well as governance, risk, and compliance; and application development services.

<div>ServiceNow provides digital workflows that unlock productivity and create great experiences. The company’s products cater to IT, employee, customer and creator workflows, and its solutions address the customer and employee experience, technology and operating excellence, and low-code app development and automation. The Now Platform’s capabilities include automation, performance analytics, predictive intelligence, AI search results, an employee center, process optimization, and column-level encryption enterprise. It serves customers across more than 10 industries. ServiceNow has operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific and Japan, and it has acquired many companies, including Lightstep in 2021.</div>

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 ServiceNow provides digital workflows that unlock productivity and create great experiences. The company’s products cater to IT, employee, customer and creator workflows, and its solutions address the customer and employee experience, technology and operating excellence, and low-code app development and automation. The Now Platform’s capabilities include automation, performance analytics, predictive intelligence, AI search results, an employee center, process optimization, and column-level encryption enterprise. It serves customers across more than 10 industries. ServiceNow has operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific and Japan, and it has acquired many companies, including Lightstep in 2021.
 
 
 
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 100ms is a live audio/video infrastructure that enables developers to build powerful live apps in hours. Its solutions enable users to create virtual events, fitness experiences and audio rooms, with its pre-built templates such as live shopping, gaming, virtual events, telehealth, game streaming, webinars, meetups, classroom, sales, and fitness. Furthermore, the features and functions offered by the privately held company’s infrastructure include private/public chats, dynamic role changes, recording with custom layouts, native mobile SDKs, fully customizable UIs, HD screen sharing, RTMP broadcasts, virtual backgrounds, waiting rooms, custom roles, raw track access for ML processing, extending with plugins, and playing music natively.
 
 
 
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 Amplication is an open-source development tool for developing low-code applications. The project is open-source, provides TypeScript & Node.js source code for customization, has built-in version control, offers the freedom to generate code, facilitates app deployment with Docker, provides a role-based access control model, generates React admin UI, a command-line interface, and it syncs with GitHub and is cloud-agnostic. Amplication generations a self-documenting GraphQL API, production-ready REST API and integrates with external services through custom code or webhooks. Headquartered in Israel, the company is privately held.
 
 
 
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 Appsmith is an open-source low-code platform that enables developers to build, test, and deploy internal applications on top of their data. The platform offers pre-built components and application programming interfaces (APIs) for users to code business logic and connect with any database. The platform also offers more than 45 (as of July 2023) customizable widgets to create their UI using a drag-and-drop interface.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 The platform&rsquo;s open-source features enable users to sync to a git repository, reuse dev workflows, commit changes, review pull requests, and deploy with their own continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline. The company is also active in launching new features and enhancements, introducing more than 180 new features across 2021 and 2022. As of June 2022, the company had almost 200 contributors and more than 18,000 stars on Github.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
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 As of June 2022, the company&rsquo;s software was downloaded over 10 million times and used in more than 10,000 organizations including AWS, Bytedance, Tubi, Dropbox, and GSK.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
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 In June 2022, Appsmith raised USD 41 million in Series B funding led by global software investor Insight Partners. The company earmarked the funding to support further development of its software and launch a paid version with additional security features for enterprises.
 
 
 
 
 
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 Appcues offers a no-code platform that assists non-technical teams in analyzing and tracking product usage and publishing in-app tours, surveys, and announcements. It is a complete solution for measuring and improving product adoption. The platform’s use cases include enhancing user onboarding, improving feature adoption, collecting user feedback, making announcements, and obtaining insights. Appcues has served over 4,000 customers and reached more than 200 million end users. Furthermore, it integrates with popular analytics, email, and data software, including Salesforce, Hubspot, and Slack. The privately held company is trusted by thousands of businesses around the world, including Squarespace, Freshworks, Amplitude, and Yotpo.
 
 
 
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 Builder.ai is an AI-powered software development platform that empowers small businesses, entrepreneurs, and enterprises to build, run, and scale their software. The company’s solutions include Builder Studio, Builder Now, Studio Rapid, Studio Store, Cloud One, Cloud Control, and Cloud Wallet. It serves customers ranging from SMBs like bakeries in Riyadh to globally renowned enterprises such as BBC, Virgin Unite, NBCUniversal, Makro, Pepsi, the US Air Force, and Fujitsu. Headquartered in London, it is privately held with offices operating in Los Angeles, New Delhi, Singapore, Tokyo, and Dubai.
 
 
 
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