# LigaData

> LigaData is a Silicon Valley enterprise AI and data company that helps regulated industries - primarily telecom operators and financial-services firms - turn siloed operational data into trusted, AI-ready intelligence. Founded in 2014 by Bassel Ojjeh and Krishna Uppala, it builds carrier-grade data products such as the Telecom Data Fabric, AI Fabric, SubscriberIQ apps and the Time Machine data-protection platform, plus managed and professional services. LigaData says its software supports 35+ communications service providers and hundreds of millions of subscribers worldwide, helping telcos transform 'from Telcos into Techcos.'

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Bassel Ojjeh (Co-founder, CEO & President), Krishna Uppala (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~140 employees (sources range 140-200)
- **Products:** Telecom Data Fabric, SubscriberIQ, AI Fabric, Data Platform (LDP), Time Machine
- **Notable:** Founded 2014 in Silicon Valley; grew to support 35+ communications service providers worldwide., Open-sourced Kamanja under Apache 2.0 and presented it at Strata + Hadoop World (2015-2016)., Barclays built its award-winning 'Fatafat' real-time decisioning engine on Kamanja.

## Products & services

- **Telecom Data Fabric** — Carrier-grade, multi-cloud platform that unifies subscriber and operations data into a single 360-degree view, with a telecom-specific semantic layer and pre-built ML components; reduces integration from months to days. Version 4.0 launched at MWC Barcelona 2024.
- **SubscriberIQ** — Suite of telecom AI applications spanning subscribers, mobile digital services, marketing and revenue.
- **AI Fabric** — Model lifecycle management and GPU-enabled AI orchestration at scale for enterprise ML/GenAI workloads.
- **Data Platform (LDP)** — Platform to manage and analyze petabyte-scale data and unify siloed operational sources.
- **Time Machine** — Data protection for data lakes and lakehouses: multiple daily backups, hot/warm/cold tiering, archiving, point-in-time recovery and ransomware protection with disaster recovery on Azure, GCP and AWS.
- **Telecom AI Apps** — Pre-built apps including Advanced Segmentation & Targeting, Multi-SIM Cross-Sell/Up-Sell, Next Best Experience, Churn Prediction, Customer Lifetime Value and Price Optimization.
- **Kamanja** — Open-source (Apache 2.0) real-time continuous-decisioning engine that scores PMML data-mining models on live streams; integrates with Kafka, Spark, HBase and Cassandra. An earlier-generation product now superseded by the data-fabric line.
- **Managed & Professional Services** — Managed services, professional services, strategic advisory and data governance offerings that operate and evolve customer data platforms.

## Achievements

- Founded 2014 in Silicon Valley; grew to support 35+ communications service providers worldwide.
- Open-sourced Kamanja under Apache 2.0 and presented it at Strata + Hadoop World (2015-2016).
- Barclays built its award-winning 'Fatafat' real-time decisioning engine on Kamanja.
- Launched Telecom Data Fabric 4.0 and six Telecom AI Apps at MWC Barcelona 2024.
- Reported a 183% year-on-year revenue increase for an Africa-based operator using its data fabric.
- Named as the platform behind Ooredoo Qatar's data-governance programme and Asiacell's AI transformation in Iraq.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Asiacell-LigaData partnership milestones announced: deployment of LigaData's Data Platform, GPU-enabled AI Fabric and enterprise data governance in Iraq, with gains in churn prevention, marketing personalization and network optimization.
- **2025-09** — Asiacell deploys LigaData 'AI Flare' to accelerate telecom AI transformation.
- **2025-03** — Ooredoo Qatar launches Phase 2 of its Data Governance Programme with LigaData (announced around MWC Doha 2025).
- **2024-04** — MTN Rwanda Telecom Data Fabric case study published.
- **2024-03** — Telecom Data Fabric 4.0 and Telecom AI Apps unveiled at MWC Barcelona 2024.

## Links

- Website: https://ligadata.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ligadata
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LigaDataInc
- GitHub: https://github.com/LigaData
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUTcgHVHSOyMgFJGaVzvqw
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LigaData-649996488451698/

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