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DualBird
DualBird is a Boston-based data infrastructure company building a cloud-native engine that brings hardware-grade acceleration to big data and AI workloads. By running rewritable FPGA silicon on AWS as a software service, DualBird plugs into existing Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg pipelines and claims 10-100x faster processing at 50-90% lower cost, without asking teams to change their code or workflows. The company raised $25M in combined Seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in November 2025.
Databricks
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.
InfoObjects Inc.
InfoObjects Inc. is a San Jose-based AI consulting and digital transformation firm, founded in 2005 by Rishi Yadav. Built originally around the open-source big data stack - Apache Spark, Kafka and Hadoop - the company has repositioned around generative and agentic AI, offering services from data engineering and cloud migration to LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation and AI application development. It partners with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Anthropic and OpenAI, and works with enterprise clients across finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
Lynx Analytics
Lynx Analytics is a Singapore-founded, AI-native analytics firm built by INSEAD students and professors in 2010 to apply graph theory to hard business problems. Its flagship platform, LynxKite, turns very large datasets into graphs and runs hundreds of graph algorithms - many GPU-accelerated - to power everything from telecom churn prediction and fraud detection to drug discovery. Over the past few years the company has pivoted its focus toward AI-native consulting and products for pharma and life sciences, combining biomedical knowledge graphs, large language models, and NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack.
Unravel Data
Unravel Data is a Mountain View, California company building an AI-native data observability and optimization platform. It plugs into modern data stacks - Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Cloudera - and uses AI, machine learning and a context graph of workloads, infrastructure and users to automatically troubleshoot, tune and control the cost of data pipelines. Where most monitoring tools stop at telling teams what is wrong, Unravel aims to fix it: its newest engine, Arvix AI, rewrites code, reconfigures infrastructure and validates the changes before deploying them, so data engineers can build instead of firefight.
Prophecy
Prophecy is an AI-powered data engineering platform that turns visual workflows into production-grade Spark and SQL code, letting analysts and engineers build, deploy, and govern pipelines together on Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery.