Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that lets organizations store, analyze, and share data across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud without managing infrastructure. Founded in 2012 by three former data architects, it separated compute from storage to make large-scale analytics elastic and pay-per-use. Now positioned as an 'AI Data Cloud,' the company adds managed AI services through Snowflake Cortex and governed agentic tools, serving more than 12,000 customers worldwide.
Databricks is a San Francisco-based data and AI company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. It builds the Data Intelligence Platform - a lakehouse architecture that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on open formats. Used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide, Databricks helps enterprises store, govern, and analyze data and build AI applications on top of it, all under a single governance model.
FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) is the analytics-software company behind the FICO Score, the credit-risk measure used in roughly 90% of top U.S. lending decisions. Founded in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, the company applies predictive analytics and AI to help banks, lenders, insurers and other enterprises make faster, data-driven decisions. Beyond the score, FICO sells the cloud-based FICO Platform and applications such as Falcon Fraud Manager and Blaze Advisor. Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana and traded on the NYSE as FICO, the lean, ~3,800-person firm reported record fiscal 2025 revenue of about $2.0 billion.
Milestone Inc is a Santa Clara-based, AI-native digital experience platform (DXP) company that helps enterprises get discovered across search and AI engines, personalize customer experiences, and accelerate customer acquisition. Founded in 1998 by Benu Aggarwal as a marketing company for hotels, Milestone has grown into a composable software and services provider whose GEO-first CMS, Schema Manager, Content Studio, AI Agents, Local Listings, Personalization Engine, and analytics power more than 2,000 brands across hospitality, financial services, restaurants, automotive, retail, and healthcare.
Two companies staring at the same problem from opposite ends of the pipe. Peec AI is an analytics platform that watches how brands show up inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, and scores them on visibility, position and sentiment. YesPress is a content operation that manufactures the citable, structured stories that make brands show up in the first place. One measures. One publishes. Together they describe the emerging discipline that marketers are calling Generative Engine Optimization.
Portable is a New York-based ELT platform that builds data connectors on-demand, specializing in the long tail of niche business applications that larger integration vendors ignore. Founded in 2020 by Ethan Aaron, it lets data teams pull data from thousands of sources into warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and PostgreSQL with no code, flat predictable pricing regardless of data volume, and hands-on custom connector development delivered in hours or days.
Redbird is a New York-based, AI-powered workflow automation and analytics platform that lets non-technical business teams connect their data, run analysis, and generate reports through a conversational, ChatGPT-like interface - no code required. Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Erin and Deren Tavgac (originally as Cube Analytics), the company builds AI agents that automate roughly 90% of the repetitive analytics, operations, and reporting work that normally clogs enterprise teams. Backed by Y Combinator and a $7.6M seed round led by B Capital, Redbird counts eight Fortune 50 companies among its customers.
Paul Guyardo is the President and CEO of Fetch Pet Insurance, the New York based, Warburg Pincus backed insurer formerly known as Petplan. Since arriving in 2019 he rebranded the company, partnered it with the viral animal brand The Dodo, and roughly tripled its subscriber base toward half a million pets. A specialist in growing direct-to-consumer subscription businesses, Guyardo previously ran revenue and marketing at DIRECTV, where he helped lift annual revenue from $12 billion to $25 billion, and served as Chief Commercial Officer at Discovery, where he launched nine streaming apps that became part of the foundation for MAX.
PDF Solutions is a Santa Clara semiconductor analytics company that turns the firehose of chip-manufacturing and test data into decisions. Its Exensio platform connects fabs, foundries, OSATs and fabless designers, normalizing data across silos so customers can ramp yield faster, catch defects earlier and run AI/ML models on the factory floor. Founded in 1991 and public since 2001 (Nasdaq: PDFS), it serves 130+ semiconductor companies including TSMC, Intel, Qualcomm, Analog Devices and DENSO.
Mozart Data is a San Francisco-based startup that gives companies an out-of-the-box modern data stack - a managed Snowflake warehouse, no-code ETL connectors, a SQL transformation layer, and built-in observability - so non-engineers can go from siloed, messy data to analysis-ready in about an hour. Founded in 2020 by Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman and backed by Y Combinator, it lets startups and SMBs skip the months of plumbing usually needed to stand up data infrastructure.
ParadeDB is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that brings Elasticsearch-quality full-text search and analytics directly into Postgres, removing the need to copy data into a separate search engine. Built in Rust on the Tantivy library, its pg_search extension delivers BM25-ranked search, faceting, and columnar analytics while preserving Postgres ACID guarantees and avoiding the brittle ETL pipelines that connect Postgres to Elasticsearch. Founded in 2023 by Philippe Noel and Ming Ying and backed by Y Combinator and Craft Ventures, ParadeDB raised a $12M Series A in 2025 and counts Alibaba, Modern Treasury, and Bilt Rewards among its users.
Spiral is a New York-based data infrastructure company building a database reimagined from the ground up for the AI era - what it calls the 'Third Age of Data,' when machines, not humans, are the primary consumers of data. Built on Vortex, an open-source columnar file format donated to the Linux Foundation, Spiral streams data directly from object storage into GPU memory, unifies governance across every data type from tiny embeddings to massive video, and aims to keep expensive GPUs saturated instead of idle. Founded by ex-Palantir and ex-Citadel engineers, it emerged from stealth in September 2025 with $22M in Seed and Series A funding led by General Catalyst and Amplify Partners.
Metrika is a Cambridge, Massachusetts SaaS company that built the first operational intelligence and risk management platform for blockchains and digital assets. It collects, analyzes, and visualizes the health of decentralized networks in real time - tracking hundreds of risk indicators across protocols, smart contracts, and market conditions - so that protocol teams, financial institutions, and regulators can monitor performance, detect issues early, and meet compliance obligations.
Salesforce is the world's leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, connecting companies and their customers across sales, service, marketing, and commerce. Founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff and co-founders in a San Francisco apartment, the company pioneered cloud-based enterprise software and has since expanded into a full AI-powered platform - Agentforce 360 - serving over 150,000 organizations worldwide, including 90% of the Fortune 500. With $41.5 billion in FY2026 revenue and a market-dominant 21% share of the global CRM industry, Salesforce is reshaping how companies deploy autonomous AI agents to run their operations.
HubSpot is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software company that pioneered the inbound marketing movement and built an AI-powered CRM platform spanning marketing, sales, service, and content. Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah after meeting at MIT, the company went public in 2014 and reached $3.13 billion in annual revenue by 2025, serving over 288,000 paying customers in 135+ countries. Its all-in-one platform - built around the idea that businesses should attract customers rather than interrupt them - has become the operating system for growth-minded companies worldwide.
Jason Neubert is AVP Sales - Data & Insights at Adobe, based in Lehi, Utah, where he leads sales efforts around Adobe's analytics and data intelligence portfolio — including Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Analytics, and the B2B Edition suite. With over 15 years at Adobe, he has climbed through account executive, senior manager, and regional VP roles, building a reputation for translating complex data products into measurable business outcomes for enterprise buyers. Off the clock, he's a championship-winning volleyball coach whose teams at Lone Peak High School and Utah Reign Volleyball Club claimed multiple state and regional titles.
Justin Merickel is a Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for the Analytics Portfolio at Adobe, where he oversees Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Analytics, and Mix Modeler. With over two decades of experience in digital marketing and data analytics, he has shaped how enterprise brands measure, understand, and act on customer behavior - from his early days at McCann Erickson through senior leadership at Yahoo!, Efficient Frontier (acquired by Adobe), and ultimately Adobe itself, where he has driven major product and partnership initiatives across the Experience Cloud.
LaSandra Brill is Vice President of Global Digital Marketing at NVIDIA, one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Leading a team of 185+ people, she oversees data strategy, CRM, media, corporate social, marketing automation, NVIDIA.com, analytics, and NVIDIA's own AI marketing strategy. With 20+ years in tech marketing across Cisco and Symantec, she has been recognized as a Top 50 Influential Digital Marketer and Top 25 Women Who Rock Social Media. Beyond her work at NVIDIA, she is a published children's book author - her 2017 book 'Let's Be Friends' promotes inclusion for children with Down syndrome - and serves on the boards of LuMind IDSC Foundation, Special Olympics, and Abilities United.
Matt Scharf is VP of Growth Marketing Performance at Adobe, where he has spent over a decade turning marketing measurement from a black box into a competitive weapon. He led the creation of what became Adobe Mix Modeler, an AI-powered platform combining media mix modeling, multi-touch attribution, and experimentation - delivering an 80% higher return on media spend over five years and a 75% increase in media's share of Adobe's subscription growth. An ANA Genius Award winner and Ad Age Trailblazer, Scharf is one of the sharper minds in performance marketing analytics.
Patrick Brown is SVP of Global Marketing at Adobe, leading growth, analytics, media, and marketing engineering across the company's global B2B and B2C operations. He oversees Adobe's Digital Economy Index — a research engine that tracks a trillion e-commerce transactions across 100 million SKUs — and has emerged as one of the most data-forward voices in enterprise marketing. Based in San Jose, California, Brown combines an MBA from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business with deep experience in technology, finance, and consumer goods sectors.
Deren Baker is the CEO of Flywheel Ventures, the innovation arm of Flywheel Commerce Network - now part of Omnicom Group after a landmark $835 million acquisition in 2023. A serial operator with deep roots in digital commerce analytics, Baker has led transformative companies including Jumpshot (which tracked 160 billion monthly clicks) and Edge by Ascential. He is a recognized thought leader in ecommerce strategy, retail media, and data-driven advertising, with bylines in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform that bundles applicant tracking, sourcing, scheduling, CRM, and analytics into a single AI-powered system used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, Notion, Snowflake, and Ramp.
ClickHouse is the open-source columnar database engineered for real-time analytics on petabyte-scale data. Born inside Yandex in 2009 and spun out as ClickHouse, Inc. in 2021, it now powers analytics for Anthropic, Tesla, Sony, Meta, Lyft, and roughly 3,000 other paying customers as a managed cloud service.
Matik is a San Francisco SaaS that automates personalized, data-driven presentations, PDFs, and reports by pulling live data from CRMs, data warehouses, and BI tools into branded templates. It is used by customer success, sales, and account teams at companies like Asana, Zapier, and Reddit to turn hours of slide-grunt-work into minutes.
Omni Analytics is a San Francisco-based business intelligence platform founded in 2022 by former Looker and Google executives. The company builds a semantic layer that turns raw enterprise data into a governed, AI-ready source of truth. With natural language querying, Git-based version control, and deep dbt integration, Omni enables both technical and non-technical users to get trusted answers from their data. The company reached unicorn status in April 2026 after raising $120M in Series C funding at a $1.5B valuation, led by ICONIQ, with participation from Theory Ventures, First Round Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and GV.
Gian Merlino is the co-founder and CTO of Imply, the company commercializing Apache Druid - the open-source real-time analytics database he co-created while at Metamarkets. A Caltech computer science graduate with roots at Yahoo, Merlino has over 1,000 commits to Apache Druid and served as the project's inaugural PMC chair. Imply reached unicorn status in May 2022 with a $100M Series D, bringing total funding to $215M. Based in San Francisco, Merlino is a recognized expert in operational analytics, real-time data infrastructure, and the convergence of batch and streaming architectures.
Josiah Ong is a Senior Deal Desk Analyst at Mixpanel, the San Francisco-based product analytics platform. A National University of Singapore graduate with First Class Honours in Business Administration, he brings over five years of deal desk and sales strategy expertise - spanning LinkedIn's Asia-Pacific channel partner network and Mixpanel's global commercial operations. Known for his advocacy around inclusion and awareness, Josiah combines analytical rigour with a genuine commitment to people and community.
Oren Kaniel is the CEO and co-founder of AppsFlyer, the world's leading mobile attribution and marketing analytics platform. Starting from a small apartment in 2011, he and co-founder Reshef Mann built a $2 billion company that serves 12,000+ customers including Nike, eBay, and Macy's. AppsFlyer reached $508.4M ARR in 2024, its first profitable year, and is positioning for a potential IPO. A Technion computer science graduate who started coding at age 8, Kaniel is known for spending 1.5 years without salary to build AppsFlyer and for operating the company for six years without a dedicated sales team.
Osama Elkady is the Co-Founder and CEO of Incorta, an enterprise data platform that eliminates the traditional ETL pipeline by mapping directly to systems of record for real-time analytics. After 20 years at Oracle - where he rose from junior engineer to VP of Applications Development and invented XML Publisher - he co-founded Incorta in 2014 with the conviction that businesses deserve instant access to their data. The company has since raised $192.6 million in total funding, counts Broadcom, Starbucks, and Hormel Foods among its enterprise clients, and has been recognized for delivering sub-second analytics at massive scale.